Australia’s Swimming WA is live streaming its 2011-2012 SWA Open and Age LC Championships finals every night from January 17th to 21st 2012 starting at 5:45pm local time, featuring for instance Blair Evans, Eamon Sullivan, Matt Abood, Geoff Huegill and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar. Other news disclose that Geoff Huegill has had his training disrupted by a series of viruses, saying over-training was partly to blame.
-
-
CC photo #20: A final talk before the Jóansøku 2011 swim
Two guys having a final chat before the Jóansøku 2011 open water swim across the Tvøroyri firth in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. As you see, we are not following the open water rules strictly, when it comes to gloves and caps and snorkels etc. But then again, with the water temperature seldom over 7ºC (44.6ºF), it will never really be a normal, rules-abiding open water swim.
-
Phew, missing statue of St Francis is found
The 3.5-ton underwater statue of Saint Francis of Paola has been found, that disappeared in December. A patrol boat spotted a small floating buoy some 200 metres from the place where the statue was originally located, members of the Paola Divers Unit were called, and found the statue tied to the buoy’s mooring line, possibly dragged there by the net of a fishing boat. The statue is in good condition, but an arm is broken. Via AGI.it. -
Jody Fisher freediving with dolphins
Really nice video here, featuring Jody Fisher, world champion in the freediving ‘Dynamic No Fins’ category from the 2011 AIDA World Indoor Championships in Lignano, Italy.
-
Axa commercial featuring Lotte Friis
It is her first television commercial, she says on Facebook. Axa is a Lantmännen brand of breakfast products, here promoting their oatmeal flakes in particular.
-
Can you do this ? – SuSvim building upon the group pushups
Wow, a 4-man pushup with lift-off exercise, a 4-girl endurance session and … a, ehm, human pushup centipede ?
(If you look closely, you’ll notice that the front man in the first exercise is Pál Joensen)
-
Free Style (a documentary)
A story about a boy who loved to swim. Not the final draft of the film, will replace once it is ready, see Vimeo.
Free Style (a documentary) from Evan Glaser on Vimeo.
-
“Swim.Dive.Win”
A community spotlight on the 2009 Brookline High School Girl’s Swim Team.
“Swim.Dive.Win” from More Than Meets The Iris on Vimeo.
-
CC photo #19: Lucky girl gets to lead Der Paul et al past the Rijeka 2008 audience
That Croatian girl seems pretty happy with her job, leading Mads Glæsner, Paul Biedermann and Massimiliano Rosolino (in that order) past photographers and audience after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course men’s 400 freestyle medal ceremony. And yes, I must stress that she did wear clothes :-P
