So yesterday at the Eindhoven Swim Cup, the Netherland’s Ranomi Kromowidjojo blazed the women’s 50 meter freestyle with a world textile best of 24.10. Brazil’s Bruno Fratus managed an impressive 21.87 in the men’s event, read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine, and see all results here.
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Anthony Ervin talks to kids at diversity clinic
2000 Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin visited the Ossining Aquatics Center on Sunday to speak to about 100 aspiring swimmers on the Spartans Swim Team at Metropolitan Swimming’s diversity clinic. Read lohud.com
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Wow, beautiful all-red spectator stand in tribute to 11-year-old cancer victim
At the 10th annual Easter swim meet at Hutton Moor Leisure Center in Weston, UK, yesterday, hundreds of swimmers and supporters came together in red in tribute of 11-year-old Mary Collard, keen member of the Weston Swimming Club, who lost her battle against bone cancer on New Year’s Day. Read more here on Mercury24 -
What makes a swimming pool fast ?
Interesting story here on The Brown Daily Herald, with Brown Bears’ head coach Peter Brown describing what makes the new Katherine Moran Coleman Center swimming pool the fastest aquatic center in the Ivy League and in the Northeast.
(Ehm, vaguely related video)
“Fast pools have specific characteristics, and if you don’t have those, you’re going to have a slow pool,†Peter Brown said.
The first quality is the pool’s depth. In general, “the deeper the water, the better,†Peter Brown said. Men’s swimming captain James Hunter ’12 said the nine feet of depth reduce swimmers’ waves from bouncing off the bottom of the pool, which reduces turbulence in the water.
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Sorry about the slow day yesterday
We had our younger daughter Annika’s confirmation in a house without internet, which was just as well with all the things going on in swimming at the moment. Slowly getting back into speed, and already this Thursday, we’ll have this big thing here in the Faroes called the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching. Now cake, leftovers, for the third time today :-P
(This is not swimming blogging, but me creating some last-minute photo slide show, at the party. Intensity pretty much the same, though)
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Moving into a nice neighborhood :-)
Last week this site was included in the new Swimming World RSS feed aggregator entitled “Swimming Around the World, Posts from the Swimming Community”, right on the home page of SwimmingWorld.com. Pretty humbled here, especially when seeing we’re mentioned among great sites like GoSwim, SwimNews, Texas Swimming, SCAQ Blog and Speed Endurance Swimming. -
Pál Joensen set 4 Faroese records this weekend
Pál Joensen put of quite a performance this past weekend, attending a swim meet in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, where he participated in 11 individual events plus a few relays, won 10 of the individuals and set 4 Faroese national records. In the 200 butterfly (short course meters), he managed a time of 2:03.98, bettering his national record of 2:04.45 from last September. In the 200 IM he clocked 2:01.97, where his record from the supersuited 2009 was 2:04.41 In the 200 breaststroke he swam 2:15.56, where his record again from 2009 was 2:16.06, and in the 400 IM he managed an impressive time of 4:18.97, where his record from 2009 was 4:26.18. Not so shabby for a distance freestyler!
(Pál’s brother Eyðbjørn filmed this. The guy chasing and during backstroke overtaking Pál is our federation president’s son Bartal Hestoy, the big sigh from the spectators is because he just missed our qualification cut for the Debrecen Europeans with 7 tenths of a second).
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30-year-old racer’s body found after ‘mud run’ in Forth Worth
Friends and family say 30-year-old Tony Weathers was one of the most talented athletes they knew, and cannot understand how a man in such elite physical condition could die during Fort Worth’s “Original Mud Run” on Saturday. He was in the competitive division of the Mud Run, consisting of challenges including “Hole to Hades”, “Leap of Faith” and “Stairway to Heaven”, when in the middle of the race they swim across the Trinity River. Friends were waiting on a bridge but never saw him cross, his girlfriend at the finish line alerting organizers when he was hours late. At approximately 8:45 Sunday morning, they found him in the water. Read more here on KHOU
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Mandaue-Mactan bridge jumper just ‘wanted to swim’
Homocide charges have been filed against the 30-year-old man who jumped from the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge in the Philippines and fell on a swimmer below who died from the impact. At the Lapu-Lapu City Jail, the jumper said he wasn’t trying to commit suicide last Wednesday, but didn’t feel well and just wanted “to swim”. Read Inquirer News.
(Photo of Mactan-Mandaue bridge courtesy of Mike Gonzalez/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)
