Calm before the first race of the Masters meet in Vágur, Faroe Islands, yesterday evening. I competed myself, still nackered because of having tried to swim 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle fast with only two heats in between (and then attending the post-race party).
Bartal has been busy this weekend, transcribing this segment out of Kringvarp Føroya‘s sports broadcast on March 8th, 2012. On how Pál and Jón joined the Danish swim team on an 4-weeks altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada and Pretoria recently, the first ever for Pál and Jón.
After having improved upon the Norwegian women’s 200 butterfly record twice in the same day, Ingvild Snildal yesterday evening won the 100 butterfly at the Amsterdam Swim Cup 2012, qualifying in 58.32, ahead of home favorite Inge Dekker in 58.41 and Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak in 59.63. A bitt off her 56.96 Norwegian record from Rome 2009, but a clear improvement upon her textile record. Via tv2.no.
After a disappointing swim in the mens 100 freestyle preliminaries at the Australian Olympic Trials, it is now official that Ian Thorpe will not get to compete at the London Olympics. On a more positive note, Leisel Jones qualified with a time of 1:07.64 in the 100 breaststroke, yesterday evening, behind Leiston Pickett in 1:06.88, making Jones the first Australian swimmer ever to qualify for four Olympic Squads. Thomas Fraser-Holmes and Kenrick Monk qualified in the 200 freestyle with 1:46.88 and 1:47.16 respectively, Emily Seebohm and Belinda Hocking in the 100 backstoke with 59.28 and 59.41, and Hayden Stoeckel and Daniel Arnamnart in the mens’ 100 back with 53.98 and 54.05 respectively. Read more here and here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
Ian Thorpe says he is crushed after he missed out on the 200m freestyle final at the Olympic trials in Adelaide.
SuSvim meet in Vágur, Faroe Island today and tomorrow, March 17 – 18, 2012. This site will probably be a bit silent today because of this.
Underwater thieves have evaded an array of laser systems that measure tiny shift in the capsized Costa Concordia shipwreck and 24-hour surveillance by the Italian coast guard to haul off the ship’s bell, a symbolic image associated with the disaster two months ago, when at least 30 people are believed to have perished. Read for instance National Post and BBC
Norway’s Ingvild Snildal set a new national 200 meter butterfly record tonight at Amsterdam Swim Cup, improving up the 2:12.38 record from the prelims this morning with a 2:12.29 in the final. Polands Otylia Jedrzejczak won gold in 2:10.30, Snildal silver and then Sweden’s Ida Marko-Varga bronze in 2:13.34, the FINA A qualifying time being a tough 2:08.95. Via www.simma.nu/no
When at the 2009 FINA World Aquatics Championships, in Rome, Italy, we had time and opportunity to go watch the Serbia vs Croatia water polo semi-final and the Serbia vs Spain final. We had chosen Serbia as ‘our’ team because of the European Juniors in Belgrade in 2008, and that was lucky since Serbia won both of these matches, the final even with a penalty shootout. Very exciting, and ‘we’ won! :-D
