USA Swimming, Speedo USA and two-time Olympic gold medalist Summer Sanders will join forces this summer to help grow participation in swimming as part of a new, national swimming campaign called SwimToday, now live at www.swimtoday.org. Via the17thman
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Setubal Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier this weekend
This weekend 101 swimmers from 44 countries will take part in the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier 2012, the last opportunity to qualify for the London Olympic Games, in Setubal, Portugal. 9 men and 9 women will book a place for the Olympics, big names like David Davies and Daniel Fogg from the UK, Oussama Mellouli from Tunesia, Petar Stoychev from Bulgaria and Natalie Du Troit from South Africa, with the twist that only one can qualify for each country. Women’s race on Saturday 9th and men’s race on Sunday 10th, possibly live streamed on the internets. See FINA event on Facebook via Keri-Anne Payne.
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Under Tyler Clary’s Hood
U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary tells about his passion for trucks and racing, and shows us what he has under his hood. OMG. Via NBC Olympics on Twitter.
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Danish men’s 4×200 freestyle Olympic relay spot confirmed
The Danish Swimming Federation announces now that they have received confirmation from FINA, that their men’s 4×200 freestyle relay will be invited to participate at the London 2012 Olympics. You might remember the exciting relay at the Danish Trials, where Mads Glæsner, Daniel Skaaning, Anders Lie and Pál Joensen had to swim faster than 7:15:65 (12th best from Shanghai 2012), and Pál blazed to a finishing 1:47.79, team clocking 7:15.38. Daniel and Anders are relay-only swimmers, so they must be pretty happy now, over in Flagstaff :-)
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Herbert Nitsch to attempt a world’s deepest ever 800ft (244m) freedive
Austrian airline pilot and extreme freediver Herbert Nitsch went down in history on June 14th 2007, off the Greek island of Spetses, by freediving to a depth of 700 feet (-214m), the deepest ever freedive. Now he wants to go even deeper, down to 800 ft / 244 m between 4 – 6 June 2012 in Santinori (Greece), so unique and extreme that the international Freediving Federation AIDA International has decided not to sanction this event, which means the dive won’t be eligible for AIDA records. Follow Nitsch’s dive on his blog and on deeperblue.com, now scheduled tomorrow.
According to Nitsch’s blog, his technique involves emptying his lungs into an Equex bottle at a depth of 16 meters before heading for the deep dive. This means that he is actually diving on empty lungs which is very different from the traditional breathholding technique on full lungs.
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Kilian Martin skating around the defunct Lake Dolores Waterpark
A beautiful movie from a sad site, the late Lake Dolores Waterpark. Via YouTube on Google+
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TF1 exclusive on Laure Manaudou
In French, but the images tell their story too. Insight into Olympic champion Laure Manaudou’s life in Auburn, Alabama. Via TF1
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Canadian swimmers en route to London
Nice video, found searching for something completely different :-)
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Eamon Sullivan interviews swimmer James Roberts
“Eamon Sullivan interviews swimmer James Roberts and previews the competition for the London 2012 Olympics” Via the17thman