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Mellouli hard pressed by the pace of the Danes

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Faroe Islands, Fun, Gossip, Training

Nice comment by the Olympic champion Oussama MellouliÂ 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 PÃ¡l, he was on assignment for my geologist brother Bartal)
CC photo #158: The Debrecen 2012 team internet center

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Organization

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.
Phoenix police kill man barred from swimming pool

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Safety, WTF

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.
Olympic Committee clarifies London 2012 photography rules

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Competition, Organization

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
Summer Sanders SwimToday

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Organization, Safety

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
Setubal Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier this weekend

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Competition, Open Water

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.
Under Tyler Clary’s Hood

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Equipment, Fun, Gossip

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.
Danish men’s 4×200 freestyle Olympic relay spot confirmed

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Competition, Faroe Islands

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 GlÃ¦sner, Daniel Skaaning, Anders Lie and PÃ¡l Joensen had to swim faster than 7:15:65 (12th best from Shanghai 2012), and PÃ¡l 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 :-)
Herbert Nitsch to attempt a world’s deepest ever 800ft (244m) freedive

Jun 5, 2012

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rokur

in Freediving, Wow

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 â€“ 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 Nitschâ€™sÂ 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.