The swim pool in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands ready for the “SUM 2008” Faroese youth championships. This is the 25 meter pool that Pál Joensen has been training in since childhood, in his home town of Vágur. A bit shallow in the far end and often hot and humid when full with people. Posted now because I need this photo for a meet invite on my Faroese spoken site :-)
Fun story told by Liam Tancock here on The Telegraph
“We were up at the crack of dawn throwing medicine balls around the camp site. Everyone was washing their pots and pans, looking at us as if we were crazy.
“Then Ben Titley, our coach, got his car out and got us pushing it up the hill. It was like something out of World’s Strongest Man. Ben was sitting in it — I’m not sure if he had the handbrake on.”
Why do I like every single sound in that track? Because it is made by human beings trying to do their best! DailyHouse via GoSwim on Twitter
Nine months ago, a Canadian man lost his waterproof camera while paddle-boarding near rodanthe, and last week, a Virginia Beach man found it on an Outer Banks beach. Brilliant! Read WAVY.com
“Competitive swimmers have an advantage in this pipeline because of their familiarity and comfort in the water. Something you can’t really teach. One of the biggest and largest hurdles that any potential SEAL has to face is fear of the water, fear of the ocean.”
We know that pool, we know it well :-)
Via the17thman
Extremely impressed here, not so happy about heights myself, but this dog just don’t care. What is that, 3 meters? And that comment, “Don’t think about it!” :-D
Via Neatorama
Australian head coach Leigh Nugent says there were mitigation factors to Ian Thorpe’s 52.28 and 4th in the Zurich International 100 meters freestyle last week, and that his 3:59.28 in the 400 meter was just a cruise. Via Reuters
“Bernard Savage was there and he got the impression from Ian that he didn’t really want to swim there,” Nugent said.
“In the 100 his goggles came off and that did him in a bit psychologically.”
“In the 400 he never raced for performance. He raced it more as a cruising swim and he felt pretty good about that.”
(Thorpe at the Oerlikon, 3rd from left)
It looks super-nice and you can win a Speedo Fastskin 3 if you sign up to it.
Via British Swimming on Twitter …
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