USA Swimming is lining up a lot of its very best swimmers, to compete against an European All-Star team at the 2011 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool on December 16-17. For instance Amanda Beard, Natalie Coughlin, Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer and Kate Ziegler, and Tyler Clary, Mark Gangloff, Brendan Hansen, Ryan Lochte, Eric Shanteau and Garrett Weber-Gale. Faroese interest falls especially on Peter Vanderkaay, since he and Pál Joensen swim pretty much the same events, with Pál beating Vanderkaay in the 800 and 1500 at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, and Vanderkaay doing the vice versa in Dubai 2010. See the USA roster here.
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Penny Palfrey takes on the Cuba to Florida challenge
If I’m not mistaken, we have a race on our hands, with Diana Nyad continuing to chase her ‘Xtreme dream’ to swim from Cuba to Florida, and now also Penny Palfrey planning to swim from Cuba to Florida in June 2012. Palfrey has the world record for the longest solo unassisted ocean swim without a shark cage, from when she swam from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman in June this year, which these 103 miles to Key West will break. Via loneswimmer.com.
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Cadbury Dairy Milk presents Simply the Best
Featuring Rebecca Adlington, an opera singing Royal Guard, a sausage seller and others, almost all of them underwater. Mmm, Cadbury, via shootonline.com.
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Swimming prohibited only in swimming area ?
And prohibited during swimming hours, see rule No. 3. Sign found in Okinawa, Japan, picture courtesy of Daam Nillan, via Engrish.com.
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Open Water Swimming testing the FINIS Ankle Strap Cord
Mike Lewis from OpenWaterSwimming.com testing the FINIS Ankle Strap Cord, an adaption of the classic hip belt.
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2011 RCP Tiburon Mile – Highlights
Courtesy of Gold Medal Mel and FINIS.
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Introducing Swim Kids lessons with Grant Hackett and Eamon Sullivan
Wow, Uncle Toby’s isn’t just oatmeal and fumbling sprinters, presenting 6 video lessons with Grant Hackett & Eamon Sullivan. See www.swimkids.com.au
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Geoff Huegill on Ian Thorpe’s comeback
I’ve been in a minibus with this guy and Eamon Sullivan as late as in Stockholm in October, it was even more mini with them in it :-)
Also in these news, Eamon Sullivan is surprised that he maybe gets to race Ian Thorpe already now … and calls butterfly a ‘weird event’ :-)
“I had not even thought about it,” Sullivan said, with a laugh. “I did not even know he was doing it (freestyle). I thought he was just doing IMs and all weird events.”
Read The Herald Sun and Courier Mail
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Never pull the plug !
Right, just had to do this … learning the language and realized that this would be my third post in a row mentioning ‘plugs’ or ‘plugging’. But seriously, never pull the plug ! :-)