Team Coco’s resident gamer Bley introduces the maestro to Michael Phelps’ new competitive swimming video game “Push The Limit.” Conan then reviews the game on a scale of 1 to 45 based on his extensive ignorance of video games in general. See Team Coco
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Close-call countries caught between OST and universality?
Malaysian media The Star has this story on how the Olympic dream is over for 6 Malaysian swimmers, caught between having made the Olympic invitation time and not being invited by FINA. As swimming coach Paul Birmingham Thomas puts it:
“We also couldn’t apply for wildcards as this wasn’t allowed as we had swimmers who already bettered the Olympic qualifying standards in the first place.
“This is ludicrous as we are deemed not good enough to join the top ranked swimmers at the Olympics while those from countries ranked at the bottom make it.
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Wow, Jessica Biel is a professional deep sea diver now
The 30-year-old actress Jessica Biel has spent a week time in Puerto Rico, where her fiance Justin Timberlake has been filming his new movie “Runner, Runner”, to take advanced PADI diving courses. If I understand it correctly, meaning she can dive down to 30 meters now. My guess is that her speciality is hot water dives :-)
I know I've been MIA, but I just completed my advanced diving course with PADI! And i got some amazing new Aqua Lung Gear. #ilovesharks
— Jessica Biel (@JessicaBiel) June 29, 2012
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The Official London 2012 Olympic Video Game is out now
Incredibly realistic except for the budgie smugglers and the high-cut swimming suits. For PS3, Xbox and PC, see www.olympicvideogames.com
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US Trials day 6: Hardy and Coughlin qualify
At the U.S. Olympic Trials yesterday evening, Rebecca Soni and Micah Lawrence qualified for the women’s 200 breaststroke, with a time of 2:21.13 and 2:23.03 respectively. Ryan Lochte and Tyler Clary took the men’s 200 backstroke in 1:54.54 and 1:54.88, Michael Phelps took the men’s 200 IM in 1:54.84 ahead of Ryan Lochte in 1:54.93, and in the women’s 100 freestyle, Jessica Hardy and Missy Franklin took the individual spots in 53.96 and 54.15, with Allison Schmitt, Lia Neal, Amanda Weir and Natalie Coughlin qualifying for the 4×100 relay. See all results from day 6 here.
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Palfrey aborts Cuba-Florida swim due to strong current
Last night at about midnight after having swum for more than 40 hours, 49-year-old Penny Palfrey was pulled out of her swim from Cuba to Florida “due to a strong southeast current that made it impossible for her to continue her swim.” Read for instance the Washington Post.
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CC photo #183: Young officials at a SuSvim masters meet
Masters swimming is in its infancy here in the Faroe Islands, with the annual Faroese championships only two years old, and competitions scarce. We are also not really ‘there’ yet when it comes to making this part of competitive really serious, proven for instance by the fact that we typically switch roles and let the young swimmers be officials, and hesitate started registering national masters records and stuff. But that being said, the young officials are really enthusiastic and probably just as good as the rest of us :-)
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Hackett admits abuse of Stilnox at the end of his swimming career
Olympic champion Grant Hackett battled a “heavy” reliance on the controversial sleeping pill Stilnox towards the end of his swimming career, an investigation has revealed. The pills were administered by swimming officials during meets, including the Olympics.
“At one point they scared me,” he said. “They’re evil.
The overuse was because of a shoulder injury from 2006 onwards and continued grueling training sessions of 16 km a day in the pool. He had problems sleeping and took Stilnox over a “longer than usual period”, the Sunday Telegraph now blasting team doctors et al.
The greatest Olympic swimmer of all time, US superfish Michael Phelps, has openly admitted to using Ambien (the US version of Stilnox) when in heavy training and competition throughout his career.
Read more here on news.com.au