USA’s Rebecca Mann after winning the women’s 800 freestyle at the FINA / Arena 2012 Swimming World Cup leg in Berlin, Germany, in 8:16.58 ahead of Leah Smith (USA) in 8:17.96 and Lotte Friis (DEN) in 8:22.04, see result list here. Yesterday she broke the 31-year-old 1650 yard freestyle U.S. National Age Group record for 13-14 year olds with a time of 15:54.46, so yes, she certainly deserves a mention :-)
Heads up, simma.nu/dk will break this story tomorrow, in English:
“Tomorrow (Monday) we will post an interview with the Swedish medley-ace Simon Sjödin who was not selected for the Olympics despite having performed at a superb level the whole season leading up to the Olympics.”
Read more on simma.nu/dk
Goodies for our WTF-category, some kind of crazy male synchronized swimming dance of, courtesy of Sky1
Jack Whitehall’s Trunks of Funk
James Corden’s Synchronised Swimmer
A synchronized underwater ballet unfolds in this Jarvis Cocker-helmed video for harpist and singer Serafina Steer’s ethereal new single, “Night Before Mutiny”. Featuring Asha Randall and Olivia Federici, both members of the UK’s Olympic team and known as Aquabatix, see Nowness.
The men’s 50 meter butterfly podium at the Faroese Open Masters Championships in Klaksvík, yesterday Saturday 10 November 2012. From left to right Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, me (Rókur í Jákupsstovu) and Mogens F. Petersen from the local club Ægir. All gold medal winners, since, well, that is the beauty of having a championship with official masters age-grouping in a tiny place like the Faroe Islands :-)
Just a photo from the video analysis section at the FINA 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai 2011. They always get the best view :-)
Lots of stuff happening, world record breaker Stanislav Donets (RUS) and a couple of others really happy while runner-up Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP) looks a bit speculative. See result list here.
Australian swimmer and Jac5 ambassador, James Magnussen joins the desk to chat about the somewhat surprising statistics of the average Australian man’s underwear habits.
