Exciting Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships waterpolo final, Serbia against Spain, final result 14-13 after penalty shootouts.
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Pál cramming between heats at FM 2012
Just a short video from the Faroese Championships this weekend. Pál Joensen had found a quiet spot to read up on history between the 200 freestyle and butterfly heats. I hear that the exam was on Monday morning (Faroese Champs ending at 19:00 Sunday evening, and then, you know, a 2 hour boat ride home for him). And that he got an A (that’s 11 in our grade system). This morning, he and Jón left for Denmark en route to Flagstaff with the Danish Olympic team. Busy man! :-)
(The video should have English captions for you non-Faroese, if not then visit the video on YouTube directly)
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Ryan Lochte fourth man to ever cover Vogue
This June, Ryan Lochte becomes the fourth man to ever cover American Vogue, alongside soccer player Hope Solo and tennis champion Serena Williams (both of whom are also Vogue cover first-timers). This is the first time a man has ever been on the cover of Vogue without a female model: The previous male cover stars — Richard Gere, George Clooney, and Lebron James — were photographed with Cindy Crawford, Gisele, and Gisele again, respectively. Read New York Fashion. -
Michael Phelps motivated for London
Four years after winning a record eight gold medals in Beijing, Phelps remains the indisputable star of the U.S. Olympic team. His lone availability at the USOC’s media summit drew a full house, with reporters eager to know everything from what he plans on swimming at the London Olympics to whether he’s climbed the famed “Incline,†a training trail at the base of the mountains near Colorado Springs. Read Sun-Times
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CC photo #136: The SuSvim victory sign
If you see this kind of clapping in Faroese swimming, it means that someone from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag won. In this case, gold, silver and bronze in the women’s junior 100 butterfly.
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Dog faces fear of water to fetch stick
Good boy, via Nothing To Do With Arbroath.
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Bobby Freeman – C’Mon And Swim (1964)
Epic, via the17thman
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London hacked its traffic lights to please the IOC Olympic evaluation committee
Interesting article on Vanity Fair, via Slashdot:
Near the end of the application process, an I.O.C. evaluation committee was permitted to visit London. Bid-committee officials knew that London’s transportation system was a weak spot on the city’s application. “Our nightmare was it would take forever to get to the venues,†Mills recalled. A bid-committee team planned the routes that I.O.C. members would travel around the city, and G.P.S. transmitters were planted in all of the I.O.C. members’ vehicles so they could be tracked. From the London Traffic Control Center, near Victoria Station, where hundreds of monitors display live feeds from London’s comprehensive CCTV surveillance system, each vehicle was followed, from camera to camera, “and when they came up to traffic lights,†Mills said, “we turned them green.â€
The IOC family will be treated as kings come London 2012, or possibly better than that:
The full stipulations of the Olympic contract, which were made public in December 2010 by an East London activist and researcher named Paul Charman, following two years of Freedom of Information requests, contain tens of thousands of binding commitments. To comply with its terms, London must designate 250 miles of dedicated traffic lanes for the exclusive use of athletes and “the Olympic Family,†including I.O.C. members, honorary members, and “such other persons as may be designated by the IOC.†(These traffic lanes are sometimes called “Zil lanes,†alluding to the Soviet-era express lanes in Moscow reserved for the politburo’s favorite limousines.) Members of the Olympic Family must also have at their disposal at least 500 air-conditioned limousines with chauffeurs wearing uniforms and caps. London must set aside, and pay for, 40,000 hotel rooms, including 1,800 four- and five-star rooms for the I.O.C. and its associates, for the entire period of the Games.
Photo courtesy of Marc, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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2 more Faroese records, 1 junior on 3rd day of champs
On this last day of the Faroese short course championships, 2 more senior records and 1 junior were posted, Ægir KlaksvÃk managing a junior record of 1:39.83 in the boys’ 4×50 freestyle, Suðuroyar Svimjifelag a time of 1:47.37 and Faroese record in the women’s 4×50 freestyle, and HS Tórshavn a time of 1:35.26 and Faroese record in the men’s 4×50 freestyle. All in all, 10 Faroese records and 8 junior records were set, these three days in Tórshavn. See all results here.
