The Danish Swimming Federation announces now that they have received confirmation from FINA, that their men’s 4×200 freestyle relay will be invited to participate at the London 2012 Olympics. You might remember the exciting relay at the Danish Trials, where Mads Glæsner, Daniel Skaaning, Anders Lie and Pál Joensen had to swim faster than 7:15:65 (12th best from Shanghai 2012), and Pál blazed to a finishing 1:47.79, team clocking 7:15.38. Daniel and Anders are relay-only swimmers, so they must be pretty happy now, over in Flagstaff :-)
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Herbert Nitsch to attempt a world’s deepest ever 800ft (244m) freedive
Austrian airline pilot and extreme freediver Herbert Nitsch went down in history on June 14th 2007, off the Greek island of Spetses, by freediving to a depth of 700 feet (-214m), the deepest ever freedive. Now he wants to go even deeper, down to 800 ft / 244 m between 4 – 6 June 2012 in Santinori (Greece), so unique and extreme that the international Freediving Federation AIDA International has decided not to sanction this event, which means the dive won’t be eligible for AIDA records. Follow Nitsch’s dive on his blog and on deeperblue.com, now scheduled tomorrow.
According to Nitsch’s blog, his technique involves emptying his lungs into an Equex bottle at a depth of 16 meters before heading for the deep dive. This means that he is actually diving on empty lungs which is very different from the traditional breathholding technique on full lungs.
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Kilian Martin skating around the defunct Lake Dolores Waterpark
A beautiful movie from a sad site, the late Lake Dolores Waterpark. Via YouTube on Google+
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TF1 exclusive on Laure Manaudou
In French, but the images tell their story too. Insight into Olympic champion Laure Manaudou’s life in Auburn, Alabama. Via TF1
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Canadian swimmers en route to London
Nice video, found searching for something completely different :-)
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Eamon Sullivan interviews swimmer James Roberts
“Eamon Sullivan interviews swimmer James Roberts and previews the competition for the London 2012 Olympics” Via the17thman
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ADHD parenting advice from Michael Phelps’ mom
Ahh, Debbie Phelps is brilliant, a middle school teacher for more than decades, now principal, who when Michael at the age of 9 was diagnosed with ADHD didn’t give up but found ways to keep him focused.
After Michael kept grabbing a classmate’s paper, Debbie suggested that he be seated at his own table. When he moaned about how much he hated reading, she started handing him the sports section of the paper or books about sports. Noticing that Michael’s attention strayed during math, she hired a tutor and encouraged him to use word problems tailored to Michael’s interests: “How long would it take to swim 500 meters if you swim three meters per second?â€
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Another high school swim coach charged with sex crimes
32-year-old Grand Ledge High School teacher and coach Jason Algra has been charged with eight counts of criminal sexual conduct involving two students, bail set at $250,000. Three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct punishable by up to life imprisonment, and five counts in the third degree punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment. MLive via SwimmingWorld Magazine
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See heart rates in plain sight with “Eulerian Video Magnification”
Researchers at MIT have developed a process called “Eulerian Video Magnification” to ‘reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner. In real-time, code soon to be released so that we one day might get this technology for instance with Google’s glasses. Via BuzzFeed