The finishing line of the annual open water swim between Tórshavn and Nólsoy, the Gate of Honor made from the jaws of a whale, back in the 70s. The boat in the foreground is Ove Joensen’s Diana Victoria, at tradition Faroese boat he built and custom made to row the 900 nautical miles (1,700 km) from the Faroe Islands to Copenhagen in Denmark. After two unsuccessful attempts in 1984 and 1985, where he reached the Shetland Islands, he succeeded in 1986 after 41 days of rowing alone.
A little something I put together from the Tórshavn to Nólsoy open water swim Saturday, using footage from mine and Hestoy’s GoPros. Music unfortunately a bit dark, but that was what I could find in a hurry, searching for “sea” and a suitable duration.
Some of the shocking talents a few of the 2012 U.S. Olympians have outside of their sports was shown on NBC’s Today Show. Our shortlist: Tyler Clary is a great belcher (and an amazing cuddler), Ariana Kukors has a nice voice, Ryan Lochte likes to draw and Missy Frankling loves to dance.
Nice segment here off Russia Today, featuring Russia’s gold winning synchronized swimming duet Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, on how they trained 10 hours a day for the London 2012 Olympics. They were also part of the gold winning team, so double Olympic gold for them.
London 2012 Synchronised Swimming – Synchro duet of Ishchenko, Romashina from meiwechner on Vimeo.
The Race Club presents Life is Worth Swimming. Own it on DVD September 2012. Narrated by: Gary Hall Sr. Starring: George Bovell and Bobby Savulich. See The Race Club
Or at least ‘should be all about’. Via Buzzfeed
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To help prepare for track meets, competitive 5K races and especially the Olympics, Boston-based runner Ruben Sanca runs 116 miles per week, takes vitamins and mostly watches his diet. But he would still feel fatigued after training runs. Then a blood analysis and a special software program revealed his internal chemistry needed some adjusting. Read Popular Science and see InsideTracker.
Synchronized swimming has never looked so good thanks to the Twinscam, invented by Japanese broadcaster NHK in 2010, simultaneously showing swimmer’s torsos above water and their legs below it. A solution to a common problem in water events, that because of the way light refracts and reflects differently above and below water, heavy image processing needed for a camera to do both, we’ve only been able to see shots that show one point of view at a time. The Twinscam does it simply by using two cameras, one above and one below, and then combining the feeds to make it look like one shot. Read more here on Slate
Warning, it goes something like this: “I’ve got a million questions for you … but, uhm, can we start with sex?”. Via K945
