Olympic gold medal winner Rowdy Gaines stops by to talk about the upcoming London games and breaking a Guinness World Record for the largest swimming lesson.
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Federica Pellegrini – a presentation
A slideboom presentation, courtesy of ToniaC.
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CC photo #172: Catching the rainbow
Not really a swim photo, but the weather was (for once) just too nice to sit inside and skim through swim photos. My two youngest working as a team to try to catch that rainbow! :-)
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Behold, a Korean pop song honoring Tae-Hwan Park
Brilliant, lyrics are translated here.
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London Games ‘scare off other tourists’
The 2012 Games were predicted to be a big money-spinner attracting hordes of holidaymakers to the UK, but bookings for many attractions, hotels and tours are down around 33% and show no sign of picking up, as high prices keep visitors away. And what’s more, tourism chiefs fear London will become a ghost town the week after the Olympics. Read more here on Sky News and here on Daily Mail
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Adlington on preparing for the Games and dealing with home crowds
Check out double Olympic champion Becky Adlington talk about her preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and competing in front of home crowds.
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Swimming Australia cancels 2012 Canberra Grand Prix due to whooping-cough
Swimming Australia has canceled its last warmup meet before the London Olympics after a water polo coach and two players who train at the venue were diagnosed with whooping-cough. Swimming Australia Head Coach Leigh Nugent said the decision to cancel the camp is purely a precaution.
“We have spoken with the AIS and, whilst we are comfortable with the procedures they have put in place, we have decided to take this precaution.â€
Read for instance Sports Illustrated and Swimming Australia
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CC photo #171: Impressive kick drill at Rijeka 2008
Someone doing kick drills during the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. And certainly not struggling either, moving by quite fast.
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Swim stars rally for Sjödin to be included on the Swedish Olympic squad
As mentioned on simma.nu/se yesterday, one glaring omission from the Swedish Olympic swim team announced yesterday was Simon Sjödin, Swedish record holder in the 200 IM and finalist from Debrecen 2012 with a best effort there of 1:59.44 (FINA A cut being 2:00.17). Now someone has started an online petition here, already attracting big names like already selected Swedish swimmers Jennie Johansson, Therese Svendsen and Sarah Sjöström, and outside of Sweden Dorothea Brandt (GER) and Femke Heemskerk (NED).
“We, the signees, petition to have Swimmer, Simon Sjodin (26) holder of the Swedish Record in 200m individual medley, selected for the Olympic Games in London 2012. Based on the criteria that he has met the Olympic A Standard on numerous occasions and is satisfactorily ranked to enable him the right to represent Sweden in the 200m Individual Medley. The time Simon achieved at European Championships in Debrecen would have taken him to the final at worlds 2011.”
(Simon Sjödin (SWE) and Ingvild Snildal (NOR) at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans)