Time to kick back and relax, next year will be Olympic !
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Oussama Mellouli named Arab sportsman of the year
Eqyptian magazine Al Ahram al Arabi has named Tunisian Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli the best Arab sportsman of the year 2011, after winning 15 gold medals at the Doha Arab Games earlier this month. Read Xinhuanet.com (in English)
Here is Mellouli after posting the world short course championships winning 1500 freestyle time during prelims in Dubai last year. Won’t forget that one!
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My New Year’s resolution: One picture released every day
As of today, I’ll be releasing one swim photo each day, at least for a year, under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. And maybe more, if it turns out to be a positive experience.
First photo is the one that I use as header image here on Swimmer’s Daily, of media people diving into the Roma 2009 pool during the traditional fun event.
I’m almost sure that the tiger-leaping guy is the No. 1 swimming photographer Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia, who quite fittingly for many years has been releasing swim photos “free for any use except advertisement.”
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Amaury Leveaux is somewhere really nice
Apparently on the beach during the XXIII Meeting de Natation de l’Océan Indien on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Gee, I hate videos of blue sky and beach sounds and small fishes taking it easy in shallow water, on a rainy and freezing Faroese winter day like this ! :-P
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More pushup fun from Vágur
This time Høgni Simonsen and Pál Joensen’s kid brother Eyðbjørn Joensen.
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Anderson Cooper swimming with sharks
“You’re on a boat. You’re in the middle of nowhere, and you see these enormous sharks in the water,” Andy tells Overtime producer David Rubin. “They’re basically circling your boat. They say, you know, ‘sharks do not consider humans food. You don’t have to worry.’ You’re like, that’s good, that’s great. But did all the sharks get the memo?”
Read CBS News
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Four young girls in Vági doing fun pushups
A fun dryland group pushup exercise demonstrated here by Suðuroyar Svimjifelag‘s Sólrun Kjærbo (12), Kristina Elin Thomsen (13), Tanja Skaalum (14) and Guðrun Mortensen (14). Guðrun holds the Faroese women’s 50 freestyle (senior) short course record of 26.04, Kristina Elin the 100 butterfly junior record of 1:05.45.
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Ryan Lochte’s back to breast IM transition turn
Maybe a bit old footage here, given that he is wearing a full body suit, but still a good demonstration of this tricky turn. Rules are as you undoubtedly know, that you have to end your backstroke on your back before turning and starting the breaststroke, which is why he touches the wall ever so slightly.
Here is Eric Shanteau doing the same turn with more of a somersault, where again you have to take care that you are more on your breast than your back when starting the breaststroke. Courtesy of GoSwim :-)
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Video: Phelps winning the Shanghai 2011 men’s 100 butterfly
A review here in extremely good quality, including ultra slow motion footage and the medal ceremony. Winner Michael Phelps (USA) in 50.71, silver Konrad Czerniak (POL) in 51.15 and bronze Tyler McGill (USA) in 51.26.