The European governing body of swimming announced their new website today, www.len.eu, just in time for the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships. One of the really great things about it is the returning photo galleries of Giorgio Scala, typically free for any use except advertisement, if you remember to mention “Deepbluemedia.eu/G.Scala” as author. Actually, I think he’s the guy with the explosive start in my banner image here above :-)
While filming TV show Wild at Heart in Africa the crew are surprised to discover a pregnant giraffe trapped in their swimming pool. Via care2.com
Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has announced that she will retire after the London Games, hopefully with a glorious finale. And as preparation for the future, she has launched Steph’s Swim Squad via SunRice Foods Facebook page, an online training and mentoring program for aspiring swimmers, and as part of the program personally mentor 10 young swimmers for a year. Via couriermail.com.au
Not even in ice-cold water, but in the family pool. And he is already bicycling again, saved by the doctors putting him into ‘therapeutic hypothermia‘, where your body is cooled down to almost hibernation, and then slowly brought back to life again. He just woke up and was 100% normal again. Gee, they must rename him ‘dolphin boy’. Via ABC News.
So, the preliminary European Short Course Swimming Championships psych sheets are now online on omegatiming.com, as well as in PDF-format on ecszczecin2011.eu. Our guy Pál Joensen is in the 1500 meter freestyle final on Saturday, on lane 0.
An HIV-positive Edinburgh couple who downed three bottles of vodka before carrying out a sex act in a public swimming pool have been jailed. This was while children were swimming nearby, and when asked to leave the premises, they first asked for their entrance money back, and then spat at police officers and a pool attendant, and bit a police constable in the leg. Three police officers and a member of pool staff had to wait six months to find out if they had been infected with HIV, risk “negligible”, but for one police officer though facing a different risk “because blood was involved.” Nice. Via deadline
Ouch, that sounds painful
http://twitter.com/#!/OusMellouli/status/144152232986816513
He is still swimming, but suffering
http://twitter.com/#!/OusMellouli/status/144288573229760512
Looking forward to it! The Eurosport TV Schedule is here.
He he, this is the view that some poor journalist will have during the European Championships in Szczecin. Coach Jón is in ‘positive mode’ and says, that at least he’ll see the finish ! :-P
