Around 20,000 Danes swim in the sea during the winter, and swim even when the water is frozen over and dry. Warning, almost NSFW outside of Scandinavia and France.
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Rebecca Adlington launches British Gas Free Swims for Britain campaign
Mansfield star Rebecca Adlington recently launched the British Gas ‘Free Swims for Britain’ programme, which is giving away swimming sessions to those who sign up online to back our swimmers, as they prepare for the biggest competition of their careers. One young swimmer comments in the video, “It was fantastic, yeah, I think it is better than meeting the Queen!” :-)
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Alexander Dale Oen – Tribute
“Rest in peace, Alexander Dale Oen, 1985 – 2012. You were a great sports star and accomplished incredibly much in your far too short life. You will never be forgotten.”
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Dale Oen’s autopsy inconclusive, shock waves near and far
The autopsy conducted on Alexander Dale Oen Tuesday found no evidence on how he died, no anatomic cause of death and no trauma associated with the death, additional test are running but it could take eight weeks or longer to get final test results. The Japan Swimming Federation is reconsidering altitude training ahead of the London Olympics, letting it up to those athletes who feel uneasy whether to go or not go. The Australian Olympic Committe has instituted enhanced heart checks of its London-bound team. Back in Norway they’ve cancelled the big Bergen Swim Festival this weekend, arranging a memorial instead, somewhat of a relief to Danish swimming stars Lotte Friis, Rikke Møller Pedersen and Jeanette Ottesen bound to compete there, as they are in mourning too. Jeanette is devastated, says he was one of her best friends, coach Wildeboer tries to have everyone keep focus, saying Alex himself would try to use this in the most positive and respectful way possible. Tough days.
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Swim lessons give children survival skills
In six weeks, five days a week at just 10 minutes a time, your child can learn to float or swim, see 10News.
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Swiss swimmer in an icy lake at 7600 feet in the Alps
This is Swiss Ernst Bromeis in the ice cold Toma Lake at 2345 meters altitude altitude above sea level, near Disentis, Switzerland. He plans to swim, wade and user other means for the 1240 kilometers from the source of the Rhine in Switzerland to the water mouth near Rotterdam in 2012, to make people aware that water is the foundation of all being and that their soul is also affected by the water. Follow him on Das Blaue Wunder. Via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com -
Grant Hackett and wife Candice Alley separate
Swimming legend Grant Hackett has this morning confirmed that he and wife Candice Alley have separated, with him wishing her “every success”.
“I can confirm media speculation this morning that Candice and I have separated,” Hackett said in a statement.
“I want to be dignified in my approach to everything and ensure the children’s needs are paramount and put first.
“I wish Candice every success. It is my hope that everybody can respect the process and be kind to all parties involved as it is a very difficult time.”
It is believed that Hackett and his singer-songwriter wife separated following the Logies incident in which Hackett was asked to leave the official after-party, and the other incident from six months ago probably didn’t help either.
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Alexander Dale Oen’s teammates back in Norway and on TV
The Norwegian national swimming team arrived at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo this morning, of course swarmed by local media. A sad Aleksander Hetland discloses that Dale Oen was doing fine on his last day, in no pain at all, “Now I haven’t got my training partner anymore. We had made great plans for the summer together. I must just take a day at a time”. Team physiotherapeut Christer Kjølholdt dismisses that Alexander was feeling unwell, says he thinks that the police report is wrong, and that Alexander was as he usually was. TV2 discloses that there will be a minute of silence at the beginning of the Europeans in Debrecen, in remembrance of Alex.
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The Morning Swim Show: Marcus Titus
On today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show Marcus Titus talks about his campaign to have hand signals instituted at the U.S. Olympic Trials for deaf swimmers. Titus, who is legally deaf, talks about the necessity of having hand signals for deaf swimmers at the start of races, and how it could impact him in races where precious tenths of a second count.