Swimmer's Daily

  • According to the Herald Sun, Aussie ‘bad boys’ Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk “have sparked outrage after they posed with high-powered weapons in a US gun shop”, to the point where Swimming Australia demanded pictures taken off Facebook and issued this statement, promising a talk with the athletes upon return to Australia:

    “Swimming Australia became aware of inappropriate photos posted on athlete Facebook pages and Twitter accounts this morning, and instantly contacted the athletes involved to ask for them to be removed under Swimming Australia’s Social Media Guidelines”

     
    Now, I get the idea that these are guns “similar to those used in the Virginia Tech and Port Arthur massacres”. I also get that since those two are already ‘bad boys’ for other reasons, they should maybe be especially careful when doing stunts like these. I’m not a weapons man myself, have never owned even a BB gun, but still, for some reason I suddenly remember sentences like “guns don’t kill people, …”.

    Even with strict gun laws like in Denmark and Norway, the crazed ones find ways to harm others. In the Faroes we have very relaxed gun laws, but thankfully next to none killed or harmed by them (or anything else) for decades. So, without further ado, here are ‘the darlings of Danish swimming‘ actually shooting big guns in Leadville.

    Sorry if I offend anyone with these words, those who know me know that I cried my eyes out with the rest of you when all that Breivik mess happened last summer. But I’m sort of with D’Arcy and Monk on this one.

    Via SwimNews

  • Courtesy of Huffpost Comedy


  • Hilarious – “Sometimes funny, sometimes philosophical, an interview with Austrian swimmer Markus Rogan is always entertaining to watch.”

    How is that relationship with Markus Rogan and the individual medley?
    Well, you know, for 20 years I was always with the same stroke.
    The backstroke?
    Ja ja, like being with the same woman for all your life. So now I think I’m doing just 4, you know, but it is a little bit exhausting”

  • A study by USA Swimming found nearly 70% of minority children have low or no swimming ability. 100 Black Men of Jackson hopes to stem the tide of accidental drownings. Read wlbt.com via the17thman

  • Jättebra! Sweden’s Lars Frölander making history by very possibly being selected for his 6th Olympics (!)

  • Michael Phelps on how he sleeps in an altitude chamber. Warning: Annoying background music.

  • They had a chance of qualifying for the Olympics, Iceland’s Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir, Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir, Sarah Blake Bateman and Eva Hannesdóttir. It didn’t go all as planned, but they put an awesome fight, placed 5th and today June 6th it is official that they have qualified. Áfram Ísland!

    Iceland ladies before the 2012 Debrecen 4x100 medley relay

  • This morning at the Mare Nostrum Canet prelims, Sydney 2000 Olympic Champion Lars Frölander went on to the finals with a 52.36 in the 100 butterfly, fastest of all there and 10th fastest of his career. Most likely qualified for the Olympic Games in London, according to simma.nu/se.

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  • Despite having given up on extra-hard Olympic qualification standards, the international competition especially in Europe has increased so dramatically, that it never has been harder for a Danish athlete to qualify for the Olympic Games. According to Danish Olympic Chef De Mission Jesper Frigast Larsen, those selected are doing so good, injury-free and training well, that they now might increase the London 2012 medal expectations from the original 7 medals across all sports.

    “I will not deny that it promises to be the best Danish Olympics ever. Over the next 14 days we’ll go through all disciplines and revise our medal target.”

    Danish sports media sporten.dk yesterday made an interesting rating of those athletes already selected for the Danish Olympic team, grouping them into 4 categories from medal contenders to ‘far-from-medals’. Here below I list only the swimmers, see the full list on sporten.dk

    1. It smells of metal: Lotte Friis, Jeanette Ottesen
    2. Perhaps – on a good day: Pál Joensen
    3. Trainees: Mie Ø. Nielsen, Pernille Blume, menn 4×200 frí
    4. Far from medals: Mads Glæsner, Rikke Møller Pedersen

    (Danes announcing their medal expectations back in January)