Michael Klim, Jana Pittman and Lisa Curry discussing the Australian Olympic Committee’s decision to eject Kendrick Monk and Nick D’Arcy from the London 2012 Games, tiny twist that they were allowed to stay in Europe instead of being sent directly home. Via the17thman
German waterpark “Galaxy Erding” has made their X-Treme Faser waterslide attraction “Nur für Männer” for security reasons ‘due to the female anatomy’. This after six women had reported injuries to the genital area last year, and some of them had to be taken to hospital. The Professional Association for Gynaecologists is sceptical, a spokeswoman saying there is no medical reason why women’s shouldn’t use a slide, unless they were pregnant. The park is now working on building a protective suit for women to use on the slide, “like for ice hockey”. Read The Local, via Arbroath.
Awesome, GoPro FTW, Go Kira !
Swimming is finished at the London 2012 Olympics, without any Nordic country taking a medal. The others were Athens 1896, St. Louis 1904, Melbourne 1956, Mexico City 1968, Montreal 1976, and Athens 2004. Gutted.
Hungary’s Dániel Gyurta gold medal in the men’s 200 breaststroke at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Now also Olympic champion :-)
Hungary’s László Cseh before the men’s 200 IM at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. He won the event the day after in 1:56.66.
At the London 2012 Olympic swimming competition today, China’s Sun Yang easily posted the quickest time of 14:43.25 in the men’s 1500 freestyle, ahead of Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli in 14:46.23 and Canada’s Ryan Cochrane in 14:49.31, other medal contenders dropping like flies despite of their chance of getting into the final increasing with each fall. Our guy Pál Joensen one of these. Australia led the women’s 4×100 medley prelims in 3:55.42 and USA the men’s 4×100 medley prelims in 3:32.65.
Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, at the Rome 2009 World Aquatic Championships. Tomorrow he’ll be at the London Aquatics Centre, watching Pál Joensen try to qualify for the men’s 1500 freestyle final.
Olympic Champion Daniel Gyurta today told Hungarian press, that he will have a copy made of his London 2012 gold medal, and send it to Alexander Dale Oen’s relatives, as a gesture saying that not only Norway shares the pain. ‘We became very good friends this year’, he said, ‘I’m sure that he would have won the 100 here in London’, ‘This is the least I can do to pay respect to my friend’. Bjørn Soleng, General Secretary of the Norwegian Swimming Federation, says on behalf of the family that he is sure that they will appreciate this very much. Nemzeti Sport Online and Budaorsi Info via VG.
