Swimmer's Daily

  • Promotional video for the upcoming Universal Sports Network series “Against the Tide” debuting on December 14, documenting the comeback effort of Olympic medalist Ed Moses as he attempts to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. 30-minute episodes airing on five consecutive nights (December 14-18) at 9 p.m. ET. Original music video here featuring Ed Moses, Mike Alexandrov, Max Jaben, Azad Al-Barazi and Katie Hoff. Cool. Via Around The Rings

  • Dana VollmerAccording to Universal Sports, U.S. swimmer Dana Vollmer discovered this year that she is allergic to gluten and eggs, meaning no bread and no all-American breakfast. Recently she and her husband discovered a solution in the form of gluten- and egg-free pizza crust, that tastes like normal pizza, and that she therefore uses for pizza and bread. “So basically I’m living on pizza, which I never thought that I would.”

  • 31-year-old champion butterflyer Geoff Huegill may change the habit of a lifetime and wear a cap in international competition, following the launch of Speedo’s new Fastskin3 “racing system” of suit, cap and goggles.

    “The hardest thing with ‘fly is that as you put your head in the water, it tends to push the cap up,” he said. “But I think this system is far ahead of anything else that has been put together and I don’t think you can get the full effect if you wear the goggles without the cap. I’m going to have to do a lot of testing in training and competition to see what suits me best.”

    In this article, head of Speedo’s Aqualab development laboratory Tom Waller even claims that this new system is faster than the controversial LZR polyurethane-panelled bodysuits (!)

    “The system is a radically different perspective and we believe we’re the only manufacturer to have ever designed something to work in unison. Taken together this is the fastest stuff we’ve ever created”

    Read The Australian. Image courtesy of Aussieswimmer.

  • Courtesy of The Sports Pages, both interviews and interesting clips from the poolside. Dig his camera entourage here in the first video …

    And here, the use of some white iPad-looking tablet for video review. We see more and more of that on the pool deck now,

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  • By Masatoshi Sugimura, cool !

    Swimming power from Masatoshi Sugimura on Vimeo.

  • Szczecin 2011 is only a week away from now, and even less for those of us who get to go :-)

  • World Champion Jeanette Ottesen versus Frederik Storm, ice hockey player on the Danish national team, with the decision made to have the water liquid rather than frozen. In Danish yes, but I’m sure you’ll be able to pick out the winner, regardless of language :-)

  • A look behind the scenes at the launch of the Speedo FASTSKIN3 Racing System in London, including the views of Rebecca Adlington.

  • Take a peak at that screen dump – doesn’t that look like something that you have been missing for far too many years? A mobile app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch called Webscorer that is dirt simple to use: you start the clock and then tap the screen as you wish to record a time, and then enter the swimmer’s name. When you want to upload the result to their website, you tap a few other buttons and enter the event information.

    The free FAN version includes a basic timer and the uploader, most likely to be used by spectators or for personal timing situations, while the $75 iPhone / $150 iPad Webscorer PRO in-app upgrade from FAN includes a sophisticated timing program, designed to handle just about any type of race (or practice), from races with interval starts to wave starts to relays, likely to be used by coaches or race officials.

    Via ReadWriteWeb.com, see also FAN and PRO demo videos.