Even on his 100th birthday, Bill Toivonen is in the pool staying fit. The aerobics help the arthritis but also provide fun, fellowship and plenty of laughs. Read kare11.com
“Part of the therapy is being around happy people,” chuckles Bill. “I feel as good as I did when I was 99.”
It has been a long and packed day, but finally we are at the hotel, after training in Eriksdalsbadet and a nice dinner at the hotel. All Faroese swimmers are here except Pál who arrives tomorrow, quite ready for a bit of fast swimming this weekend.
Life-affirming post here on The Washington Times:
Dara Torres became the oldest female swimmer in Olympic Games history in 2008. The American won three silver medals at age 41. Now she’s training to make the U.S. team competing at the 2012 Games/ Torres will be 45 when the London Olympics begin on July 27, 2012. If she makes the team, she would become the oldest Olympic swimmer ever.
Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad gave up her attempt to break the open-water swimming record at age 62 last month, forced to abandon the 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida after 89 miles due to repeated stings from lethal Portuguese Man-O-War jellyfish. She says she knew she would have made it if not for the stings. She won’t try again, but she doesn’t consider the effort including two years of training a failure, calling it a “grand, elevating, life-confirming experience.â€
Danish breaststroker Rikke Møller Pedersen interviewing world champions Lotte Friis and Jeanette Ottesen at at shooting range in Leadville, Colorado. All in Danish, but who needs to understand what they saying, just look at their faces :-)
China’s Health Ministry announced over the weekend that 10 percent of public swimming pools in China exceed the safe limit for urea levels. The study was released after the Health Ministry inspected 5,639 swimming pools in 24 Chinese provinces, municipalities and regions from June through August 2011. Read for instance The Inquisitr, China Daily and Shanghaiist
Badly pressed for time here, and quite tired from last night, I’ll just quote SwimmingWorld Magazine, who had the story already yesterday (LOL, giving myself a high-five here :-)
IN an exciting head-to-head matchup of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the team from Iceland proved to have just a bit more in the tank than the hosts in an 99-81 victory. The meet took place in short course meter format, and Iceland’s dominance in the women’s events proved to be too much for Faroe Islands’ strength in the men’s events.
Read more here on the SwimmingWorld Magazine, and go to SwimmingWorld.TV to watch all the races, some interviews and other stuff. Thanks to SwimmingWorld Magazine and managing editor Jason Marsteller in particular, for giving us this opportunity.
Straight after work, it was north to KlaksvÃk to be interviewed on live TV about this upcoming dual meet and the fact that SwimmingWorld.TV will be hosting the on-demand videos. Meanwhile it gets mentioned on Streamlined News. Man, I hope our technical setup is gonna hold up tomorrow :-)
FAR-ISL Dual Meet 2011 television teaser here courtesy of Kringvarp Føroya. Looking forward to a hopefully packed swimming pool in KlaksvÃk tomorrow evening at 17:30 GMT/UTC, and a lot of viewers online, for instance on www.swimmersdaily.com/live :-)
Olympic 10k bronze medallist Cassie Patten has announced here retirement from the sport via Twitter. Read the BBC. Here below she’s with Olympic silver medallist Keri-Anne Payne at the Beijing Olympics.
