Germany’s Steffen Deibler enjoying the sun in Hamburg, en route to a two-week training camp with hopefully even better weather in Sardinia. Laying the foundation for Barcelona 2013, and promising to try to post from Sardinia also. Yay!
He broke the German 100 butterfly record with a 51.19 at the 2013 German National Championships recently, world’s best time this year that would have won him gold in London.
See for instance Discovery and Live Science
Three college students were filming a short movie as a class project at Lough Foyle, a large tidal estuary in County Donegal, Ireland, when something very odd moved through the water in front of them
“Looks like we have our own Loch Ness monster!” Conall Melarkey, a student at North West Regional College in Derry, Ireland, wrote in his posting of the video clip to YouTube.
“Manta rays are one of nature’s most graceful and eerie animals. In Episode 2 of UnderH2O, we go underwater off the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii — in the dark of night — to film these enormous creatures.”
– Not sure, but I think that sound is added ;-)
Read for instance ninemsn.com.au
In a rollercoaster week that began with a 400m flop, Fraser-Holmes is now primed to make a splash in the four-lap IM at July’s world titles in Barcelona after posting the year’s second fastest time on Friday night. […]
Just like Thorpe in the 2004 Olympic trials in the same event, Fraser-Holmes received a shock 400m disqualification when he overbalanced and fell off the starting blocks.
After bouncing back to claim the 200m freestyle gold in a personal best and the world’s fourth-fastest time, Fraser-Holmes capped his comeback with another, albeit unexpected, 400m IM crown. [in a new Commonwealth and Australian record of 4:10.14]
“Yeah my family have all gone home,” Fraser-Holmes laughed.
“They left on Wednesday. I have to cook meals for myself now.
http://youtu.be/Y63ZkCc2Brk
Read Herald Sun
With the sport humiliated and chastened in the wake of London, rehabilitation is a long, incremental and necessary haul that will need every kilometre of the road to Rio.
Often considered curious, swimming’s prominence was grounded in its capacity to showcase the vibrant best of Australian youth.
Central to its hold was winning. Medals from the pool have long underpinned Olympic campaigns and a nation has drawn its sporting worth from those treasured days at four-year intervals.
The cycle broke spectacularly en route to London.
The narrative was anchored in the past. Failed and forlorn comebacks outshone the need to rejuvenate. In a deteriorating environment of favouritism and indulgence, the athletes were seen as churlish and pampered. The toxic symptoms developed unabated until finally the winning stopped and the recriminations began.
Read for instance news.com.au and The Australian
Guided by Hackett’s coach Denis Cotterell at the same Gold Coast pool, Harrison last night became the second fastest 17-year-old in the history of the 1500m freestyle.
Harrison’s 14min51.02sec is quicker than Hackett’s 14:51.70 when he won the 1998 world championship in Perth.
The fastest time ever by a 17-year-old is still held by Kieren Perkins, who swam 14:50.58 at the 1991 world titles. Given Perkins and Hackett both won two Olympic titles in the 1500m freestyle, Harrison is a name to remember. [… ]
The World Water Bombing – where the aim is to make the biggest splash possible – took place in Sheffield, England on Wednesday.
Forget the style, grace and acrobatic awe of diving, the 9th annual World Water Bombing Championships took over Sheffield’s Ponds Forge on Wednesday as 36 contestants from nine different teams raised money for charity.
http://youtu.be/OHg6k_6y2Is
