“Some Things Are Really Simple (Sommige Dingen Zijn Heel Eenvoudig)” is a claustrophobic film about a young father, Wout, who takes his identity from his hobby: swimming underwater. One day, Wout arrives at his home and finds his place in his family taken by another man. That is, a man his own age is cooking for his wife and child. See culture unplugged
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$1.5M settlement in the Andy King case
The 29-year-old King County woman who said that her coach molested her while she was on an Oak Harbor swim team nearly 18 years ago will receive a $1.5 million settlement from the North Whidbey Park and Recreation District to compensate for the abuse, according to her lawyers. Read The Seattle Times
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Mellouli hard pressed by the pace of the Danes
Nice comment by the Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli on AZ Daily Sun
“It’s been kind of crazy because this is the first time I’m doing triples, which is three workouts a day,” said Mellouli, who won the gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle for his native Tunisia at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Even for a world-class athlete like Mellouli, whose body is trained to go farther, faster and harder than most people could ever dream of going, the training schedule can be taxing.
“Some of the guys on the team went to check (the Grand Canyon) out yesterday, but I was just too tired, I wanted to stay in the hotel and relax.”
(No break for Pál, he was on assignment for my geologist brother Bartal)
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CC photo #158: The Debrecen 2012 team internet center
As in Budapest, the organizers of the Debrecen 2012 Europeans (and T-Mobile?) had arranged for this bus to be available, complete with computers and everything for teams to get on the internet. For some reason though empty, every time I went there.
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Phoenix police kill man barred from swimming pool
Phoenix police yesterday shot and killed a young man who became belligerent after having been turned away from a city swimming pool, threatening people and then charging the officers with with a baseball bat. AZ Central via USA Today.
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Olympic Committee clarifies London 2012 photography rules
A month ago, controversy was stirred up when Amateur Photographer pointed out some stringent and seemingly unenforceable restrictions included in the London 2012 Ticket Holder Agreement. That you couldn’t post photos from the venues on Facebook etc, an assumption apparently later refuted. Now we’re told that images to Facebook will be allowed, but that camera equipment over 30cm (12in) long will not be allowed, and that since there is no storage available for stuff like that, you’ll loose it if confiscated. Read more here on PetaPixel.
Image courtesy of huitgalerie, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Summer Sanders SwimToday
USA Swimming, Speedo USA and two-time Olympic gold medalist Summer Sanders will join forces this summer to help grow participation in swimming as part of a new, national swimming campaign called SwimToday, now live at www.swimtoday.org. Via the17thman
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Setubal Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier this weekend
This weekend 101 swimmers from 44 countries will take part in the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier 2012, the last opportunity to qualify for the London Olympic Games, in Setubal, Portugal. 9 men and 9 women will book a place for the Olympics, big names like David Davies and Daniel Fogg from the UK, Oussama Mellouli from Tunesia, Petar Stoychev from Bulgaria and Natalie Du Troit from South Africa, with the twist that only one can qualify for each country. Women’s race on Saturday 9th and men’s race on Sunday 10th, possibly live streamed on the internets. See FINA event on Facebook via Keri-Anne Payne.
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Under Tyler Clary’s Hood
U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary tells about his passion for trucks and racing, and shows us what he has under his hood. OMG. Via NBC Olympics on Twitter.