Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships, warming up for the 800 freestyle the morning after winning silver in the 1500. They should change that schedule :-)
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Denmark central in European doping production and distribution, according to own authorities
Danish media Politiken broke this story yesterday, that Denmark according to local authorities has ‘a special status on the doping market”, as producer and distributor of doping substances. Four major brands have close ties to Denmark – India-based Alpha-Pharma has a Danish CEO and Denmark as a sort of distribution hub for their product, Gen-Shi Labs has opened a third laboratory in Denmark ‘due to increasing demands’, Danish customs has on several occasions seized empty Diamond-packaging entering the country, and Dragon has its web site hosted on a server in Jutland.“Unfortunately, it confirms our suspicion that there is organized doping crime in Denmark – probably on quite a big scale. We should expect to see the police respond,” said Jens Evald, chairman of Anti Doping Denmark and law professor at the University of Aarhus.
Another sign of Denmark’s central role is that [Danish tax authorities] Skat often confiscate the largest amounts of doping going out of the country.
“It seems strange that shipments go out of the country on such a scale. We can deduce that there to a certain extent is disemination of doping from Denmark, “said Axel Grønkjær from Skat.
(Image courtesy of Dave Campbell, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Anthony Ervin preps for The Golden Goggle Awards w/ Eve & Candace
Anthony Ervin gets ready for USA Swimming’s Golden Goggle Awards in New York City with a little help from the world’s foremost unknown swimming vloggers, @EveandCandace
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Swimmers develop faster on land and in the water
Griffith University professor Robyn Jorgensen conducted a 3-year study that found young children (under 5 years of age) who learn to swim at a young age achieve a wide range of skills earlier than those who do not. The study was based on data provided by online surveys completed by parents of 7,000 children under the age of 5 in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and then widened with further studied 180 children between the ages of 3-5, finding ‘significant differences between the swimming cohort and non-swimmers regardless of socio-economic background’.
Read more here on The Daily News of Open Water Swimming
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Man controls ‘Call Me Maybe’ with his heart beat
A programmer’s project for the Music Hack Day MIT 2012. Something for Speedo et al to put in their MP3 players ? :-)
Via Mashable
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The Chartres 2012 Provisory Entry List
In case you haven’t found it already, the Chartres 2012 Europan Short Course Swimming Championships provisory entry list can be found here on SwimRankings. See also chartres2012.com and len.eu, the competition begins on Thursday morning 22 november at 09:00 local time, and ends on Sunday 25 november.
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Muffat and Agnel set textile marks in the 200 free
On the last day of the French nationals, the two champions of Nice both threathened the world records in the 200 meter short course freestyle, Camille Muffat with a 1:51.65 and 2nd best ever (first inside 1:52 in textile) and Yannick Agnel with a 1:39.70 and also 2nd best ever (first inside 1:40 in textile). Read SwimNews and see full results from Angers here.
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CC photo #323: The Berlin 2012 men’s 50 free podium
The men’s 50 free podium at the FINA / Arena 2012 Swimming World Cup 2012 meet in Berlin, Germany. Anthony Ervin 1st in 20.85, George Bovell (TRI) 2nd in 20.97 and Matthew Targett (AUS) 3rd in 20.12, see result list here.
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Julia Carta gives swimming hair and make-up advice for Speedo Sculpture
How to look your best in and around the swimming pool with celebrity hair and make-up artist Julia Carta and Speedo Sculpture.