Just a teaser … they had set up a real soap box speaker’s corner at Hotel Føroyar yesterday evening, as part of the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching. And we actually had 4 people stand up on the box and speak, on tape and in my possession ;-)
This is great, USA Swimming decided Thursday to allow hand signals at the U.S. Olympic Trials to accommodate deaf swimmers at the start of the races, reversing the organization’s decision issued less than 48 hours earlier, more or less because of campaign on Facebook started byone of the nation’s top breaststroker and deaf athlete Marcus Titus. Read The Washington Post via Speed Endurance.
A nice touch up at Hotel Føroyar, where most of our foreign guests stay during the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching this weekend.
So I’m a bit busy filming and doing other stuff, and it seems that at the same time this website is struggling because of going over the allocated memory resources (read: too much success :-). But the conference is on, first lecturer Jens Bruun is speaking, see www.neg2012.com.
And by the way, I’m putting pictures up here on Flickr as we go along, see slideshow below.
A memorable moment on TV in our hotel room in Dubai, from when Tunesia’s Oussama Mellouli had swum his 1500 freestyle at the Dubai 2010 World Short Course Championships morning session, ending up winning in the impressive time of 14:24.16.
A video from yesterday, now on YouTube with 99 days to go ! :-)
At the South African Nationals today, Charl Crous confirmed his qualification in the men’s 100 backstroke by winning the final with a time of 54.18, well under the FINA A cut of 54.40. Chad Le Clos qualified for a third swim in the Olympics with a time of 1:55.30 in the men’s 200 butterfly, third-ranked in the world this year, and and Kathryn Meaklin clipped the FINA A cut in the women’s 200 IM with a time of 2:13.33. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
At the Russian National Championships today, Alexander Tikhonov qualified for the Olympics with a 4:15.25 in the men’s 400 IM, Evgeny Korotyshkin and and Nikolay Skvortsov with a tight 52.07 to 52.08 in the men’s 100 butterfly ahead of Nikita Konovalov in 52.15, and Arkady Vyatchanin and Vladimir Morozov with 53.91 and 53.93 respectively in the men’s 100 backstroke. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine
Very positive read here on sports.yahoo.com, on how swimming is beneficial to people with multiple sclerosis, because 1) it is social no matter medical condition, 2) it is effective but gentle strength training, 3) it relaxes and brings down stress level, 4) it is cooling even when training on hot days (and has the added benefit of lifeguards), and 5) allows balance training while supporting ones body.
