Just a quick impression from the Szczecin 2011 LEN European Short Course Championships.
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Olivia Smoliga – Swimming for gold
High quality documentary on the swimmer Olivia Smoliga, Illinois Female Swimmer of the Year, holder of 3 state records there and about to represent Glenview Titan Aquatic Club (GTAC) in 4 events at the 2012 Olympic Trials.
Olivia Smoliga: Swimming For Gold from Kevin Mathein on Vimeo.
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Paulus Wildeboer on the (former) ‘laziness’ of Jeanette Ottesen
If you can survive the sections where Jeanette speaks in Danish (or even better, understand them :-), there is an interesting interview here (in English) with Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, on how Jeanette used to be ‘lazy’, and on how she changed her attitude. What Jeanette says in return, is mostly confirmation of what Paulus says.
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Swimming lowers blood pressure in sedentary over 50s
A study published online in The American Journal of Cardiology suggests that older sedentary adults with elevated blood pressure should consider swimming as a way to bring the pressure down, as an ‘ideal form of exercise’ because it puts little weight-bearing stress on the body and is not likely to lead to overheating.
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Eric Moussambani was a ‘stunning Olympic moment’ according to the Guardian
You might remember him, Eric Moussambani aka ‘Eric the Eel’, who swam the 100 freestyle at the Sydney 2000 Olympics in 1 minute 52.72 seconds, after having been so unsure about the starting procedure, that the two others in the heat false started. The Guardian sees this moment as one of ’50 stunning Olympic moments’ in this lengthy article, I sure hope that Phelps vs Cavic or USA vs France will be there too.
Back at the Olympic village, Moussambani was hailed as the very embodiment of the Games spirit and his every excursion was soundtracked by spontaneous applause. A giant banner was draped outside the lodgings of the Equatorial Guinea team declaring “Eric the swimmer lives here”, a German TV crew took him on a tour of Sydney Harbour and his hero, the Australian swimmer Michael Klim, sought him out to shake his hand.
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Joe Jones logs 100th millionth FINIS Swimsense® yard uploaded
FINIS has announced Joe Jones as the lucky Swimsense® swimmer who uploaded the 100th millionth yard to their Swimsense® Training Log, and awards him an AquaPulse® Heart Rate Monitor in return. Jones himself calls the performance watch ‘godsend’, as he no logger has to count his laps. That’s it, I’m going to get myself one!Joe views the Swimsense® as a “godsend†due to the meditative state that longer swims seems to put him in. Joe commented, “I no longer have to keep count or wonder ‘Was that 800 or did I sleep a 50?’ The Swimsense® has motivated me to swim more. I love to run home, hook it up to my PC and check my graphs. I also really love the new ‘auto interval’ featureâ€.
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Guillaume Néry exclusive Sportlife documentary
The Sportlife Saga is about three elements of nature; water, ice and snow. The story of the element water is told by Guillaume Néry, world champion in freediving. Via Vedrana Vidovic
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Soul Surfer – Bethany Hamilton
Meet Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer from Kauai, Hawaii who lost her arm to a 14-foot tiger shark at the age of thirteen. Video named after her autobiography “Soul Surfer“.
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Behold, a Faroese meteorological tsunami
This is footage from Sørvágur in the Faroe Island on January 18th, 2012, the same day as those storm photos you might remember. It is called a meteotsunami or meteorological tsunami, and is a wave phenomenon of meteorological origin, where traveling air pressure disturbances (in this case a huge atmospheric low pressure) generate barotropic ocean waves that amplify near the coast through resonance mechanisms. We call it ‘rennisjógvur’ (running sea) or ‘storm flóð’ (storm flood) in Faroese, and this video is in real time.