The opening of the winter swimming season at Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club, captured with Epic at 100fps & Weisscam at 1000fps. Wow.
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Michael Phelps on ’60 Minutes’
Ready for the Olympics, and retiring afterwards: “I’m retiring. I’m done. I’ve been able to go to all these amazing cities in my travels and I haven’t been able to see them at all. I see the hotel and I see the pool, that’s it. I just want to go and do whatever I want to do. I’m excited.” Via zap2it
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Watch Ryan Cochrane give his everything
Ryan Cochrane made his first Olympic appearance at the 2008 games in Beijing winning a bronze for 1500 m freestyle. And even though it was the first medal for a Canadian swimmer since the 2000 Summer Olympics, he wasn’t satisfied. Four years later, he’s determined to make every stroke count. Watch Ryan as he trains and hear what being an Olympian means to him, and visit olympic.ca/team-canada/ryan-cochrane for more on Ryan.
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CC photo #129: Sea swimmers ready for the SFS 2005
A team photo before the “Skálafjarðarsvimjingin 2005”, a swim we arranged twice here in the local swim club. We’re situated at the mouth of Skálafjørðurin, the longest firth on the Faroe Islands, some 15 kilometers long and only 600 across here at the mouth, so it is only natural to dream of taking the short route. This one was rough, weather-wise, some swimmers made it in about 10 minutes, while others struggled for up to an hour against the head-on current.
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Crazy Japanese (swim) commercial
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CC photo #128: Pál showing kids in Sørvágur where he’s been
From an event we arranged for kids in Sørvágur, when Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason were enroute to the South African Championships in 2010. They unfortunately have no swim club there, yet, so we tried to inspire. That kid in the Manchester United hat points to (approximately) where they were going, and to Australia and the Melbourne 2007 World Championships.
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Alexander Dale Oen – “The heart breaker”
Touching article here on Aftenposten, in Norwegian but worth running through Google Translate. I’ll translate a few excerpts here, as well as I can:His eyes could seem heavy and sleepy. They possibly become that way by being opened at 5 AM every day and spending countless hours in the pool. But his head was alert and his stare intense when he started telling the story of a frog. Maybe this was the mystery that he solved for us right there and then: How can a boy from the sea on the west coast, in a country almost without pools, become the best in the world in a sport that everyone masters?
– Have you heard about the frogs? They try to jump up on a pole, again and again, but no one reaches the top. They slide down every time. Every day people walk past and say “Frog, forget it.” Most of them give up eventually, but one doesn’t. One day it is at the top. The human comes by and asks “Frog, how did you accomplish that?”. But the frog doesn’t answer. Do you know why? Because the frog was deaf.
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Swim, by Banana Tree Films
OK, her breaststroke technique is not 100% perfect, but wow, the colors and the wildlife.
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A Conversation with Josh Schneider
Sprinter Josh Schneider talks about what he’s looking forward to most in Omaha this summer and how he plans to handle distractions at the the Olympic Trials.