Uh oh, read here on Reuters
“I feel like a tough warrior, with shield in hand, I am about to go all out,” Sun thundered in a speech in front of the national swimming team last week.
“I am ready, London. We are coming. Chinese men are coming!”
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Faroe a force to be reckoned with at Nordic Youths 2012
This weekend Denmark will host the 2012 Nordic Youth Championships, at Bellahøj Svømmestadion in Denmark. Sweden and Denmark are clear favorites to win most medals, but tiny Faroe Islands are also able to compete, with several swimmers vying for both gold, silver and bronze medals.
(Eyðbjørn, Alvi and Markus on bikes in Copenhagen)
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CC photo #185: Dinner table at the Stockholm 2011 World Cup
Our table at the Clarion hotel during the Stockholm 2011 World Cup. Closest to the left is Magnus Jákupsson (FAR), semifinalist from the Beograd 2011 European Juniors, then Pál Joensen (FAR) and then Alexander Dale Oen (NOR). The people with the map is a Danish TV crew trying to find their way home. Smiling guy is Óli Mortensen (FAR), one of the favorites at the upcoming Nordic Youth Championships. Guy with the flag coach Jón Bjarnason (FAR).
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Muse – Survival (official song of the London 2012 Olympics)
OK, it is a lot better with those accompanying images, than without.
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JVC ADIXXION action camera is waterproof and streams directly to Ustream
Not so shabby, JVC’s new pocket-sized GC-XA1 ADIXXION camcorder is waterproof down to five meters, shockproof to withstand a fall from two meters (onto pool tiles?), dustproof and freeze-proof (wee, now we can film the freezing of ice cubes), records in full HD 1920×1080/30p and can stream live high definition video in real time to USTREAM without a PC, or to your PC or Android or iOS device via Wi-Fi. No excuse for not live streaming swim meets now! Read GadgetReview.(Photo is me, soon, courtesy of JVC, CC BY 2.0)
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Time for the Antwerp 2012 European Juniors
These next five days Antwerp in Belgium will host the 39th European Junior Swimming Championships, featuring promising youngsters like Denmark’s Mie Ø. Nielsen and Italy’s Gabriele Detti. The startlists are ready here on www.europeanjuniors2012.be, unfortunately it seems that there will not be any live streaming from these championship, and no live timing as such, other than that they will try to get the results posted here as quickly as possible. But with an effective Faroese team on site, I’ll try to keep you posted with pictures and results and stuff ! :-)
(Mie’s Icelandic coach Eyleifur Jóhannesen and our Faroese coach Petur Heðin á Fløtti on deck at the Antwerp 2012 pool)
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For many, Olympics will start and end in a mall
The giant Westfield mall will be an integral part of the London Games experience for many fans heading to events at Olympic Park. See Yahoo! Sports
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US Trials day 8: Torres 4th and out in 24.82
The 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials have come to a close, Jessica Hardy and Kara Lynn Joyce took the women’s 50 freestyle Olympic tickets in 24.50 and 24.73, while Andrew Gemmell and Connor Jaeger took the men’s 1500 freestyle seats in 14:52.19 and 14:52.51. USA Swimming named its London 2012 Olympic team roster shortly afterwards, Missy Franklin participating in 6 events while Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps take 5 each, including internal head-to-head duels in the 200 and 400 IM.
“Missing it by less than a tenth of a second is tough,” Torres said. “Going to the Olympic trials against girls half my age, it’s OK. I mean, I’m used to winning but that wasn’t the goal here. The goal was trying to make it. I didn’t quite do it.” – SwimNews
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British Tour rider Wiggins lauds swim training philosophy
British professional track and road bicycle racer Bradley Wiggins is one of the major contenders for the Tour De France crown this year, placed no 2 after the prolog on Saturday and having won the Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie and the Critérium du Dauphiné earlier this year. His training program has aroused considerable interest, under stewardship of Tim Kerrison, an Australian coach with background in swimming who among other things was on the 2004 Australian Olympic Swim Team, in particular because Kerrison recommends that the rider dispense with the idea of using races as training.
“My coach has not been in cycling for long, he’s come from swimming, so I’ve pretty much been training like the swimmers train,” Wiggins told reporters in Bourg-en-Bresse. “I’ve been constantly training through the year, so it’s not like the traditional way for cycling, which is starting in January fat or in really bad condition, and then building, building and showing form in these races.”
Read more here on Cycling News.