So, Pál Joensen is now on his first altitude camp ever, in Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, together with the Danish national team and a few other swimmers. But it was no easy trip from Copenhagen to the Sierras, as they had Pál’s coach Jón Bjarnason with them, who is notoriously unlucky when it comes to flights.
(Pál and Aschwin and others at the High Altitude Training Center of Sierra Nevada)
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Faroese swimmers Magnus Jákupsson and Birita Debes at the Stockholm leg of the FINA 2010 World Cup series. We are a bit early as you can see, and therefore have plenty of space for practice.
Featuring Tammy van Wisse and a not-so-great up-and-coming swimmer called Tony Shaw. For more information about water safety, visit the Better Health Channel website.
So yesterday I got in contact with Dr. Ivan Tsanov, Secretary General of the Association of the Bulgarian swimmers and Editor-in-Chief of the number one Bulgarian website about swimming, www.bgswim.info with about 15000 daily visits. He asked me about Faroese swimming, and has now been so kind to translate my somewhat hurried response and put it here on bgswim.info. It is mostly about how tiny we are; you could have it autotranslated by Google, but for comfort I’ll put my summary of Faroese swimming here in English after the break. I’ve probably stepped on a few toes back home with this text, but there you go.
The Faroe Islands won most medals at the Ã…land 2009 NatWest Island Games, in swimming the second time in a row, and for all sports the first time ever. The Faroe Islands won a total of 34 gold medals, 23 silver and 24 bronze medals in the 14 different sports, whereof the swimmers won 21 gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze. Pál won gold in all 5 freestyle events, in the 50 butterfly and 200 breaststroke, silver in the 50 breaststroke, 100, 200 and 400 IM, and bronze in the 100 breaststroke and 200 butterfly. And was part of the relays winning gold in the 4×50 medley, and silver in the 4×100 medley and 4×100 freestyle. A total of 8 gold medals, 6 silver and 2 bronze. See result lists here.
After breaking the Swedish 200 IM short course senior record at the junior nationals on Friday with a 2:08.17, she yesterday cleared also Therese Alshammar’s 12-year-old record of 52.17 in the 100 freestyle, with a 52.15, ahead of Michelle Coleman in 52.96 and 15-year-old Louise Hansson in 53.73. Via SwimNews
Videos from the Swedish Junior Nationals can be seen here on LiveTiming.se, the 200 IM is “Gren 14 Final” at the bottom of the list in “Pass 4” and the 100 freestyle “JSM gren 27 A final” in “Pass 6”
Someone has been using the ‘Documentary’ Movie Trailer theme in iMovie. But it works, and that fish school is just amazing.
“BACK TO THE CAP” – Freediving in Reunion Island from Farouck Moullan on Vimeo.
In June 2005, Patrick Musimu redefined human boundaries and became the first freediver to reach a depth below 200 meters (218 yards, 656 feet). Great pro-quality video here featuring him investigating the ancient freediving techniqe of the sponge fishermen on the island of Kalymnos in Greece, where they used a special (heavy) stone called a skandalopetra to dive head-first into the depths with, comparing it to how in the Persian gulf Emirati divers also used a stone or weight made of iron to dive (feet-first).
