One word: Awesome. Via Speed Endurance Swimming Blog
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Met up with Chris DeSantis in CPH today
The Copenhagen 2011 international swimming blogosphere top summit went OK, me thinks, with me and Chris coming to a preliminary agreement about how to divide up the world between the two of us. Notice the coffee cups, and follow him on The Swim Brief.
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USA Swimming Deck Pass promo
This looks interesting, maybe USA Swimming exclusive but inspirational when it comes to giving everyone something to strive for. Nice mobile app too, see www.usaswimming.org/deckpass.
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They don’t get anything to eat at Noma ?
Doesn’t sound like a two star Michelin restaurant ‘best in the World’ to me :-P
Just found out I won’t be fed anything to eat until 5pm…starting at 9am. I’m in serious trouble! Gotta do it Haha #Copenhagen #Nomaless than a minute ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry
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Diana Nyad forced to abandon her big swim
Attempting to become the first person to swim between Cuba and Florida, Diana Nyad was forced to abandon roughly halfway through her journey, struggling with ocean swells, shoulder pain and asthma. Still shell-shocked from Faroese media’s coverage of the World Championships, I’m sure that the gutter press will write “Nyad gives up, only manages to swim 55 miles in 29 hours,” clueless as the are. Good one Diana!
Read more here on CNN.
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Diana Nyad has started her big swim
Sunday evening August 17th at 19:45.10 ET, 61-year-old Diana Nyad started her 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, attempting to set a new long distance world record in ocean swimming without a shark cage. You can follow her progress in near-real-time here on CNN, and read more here on diananyad.com.
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Hiatus
Yeah, it is a bit quiet here. Last news from Pál was that he was lying in the sun somewhere with his girlfriend, listening to Led Zeppelin, reading Dostojevskij and enjoying a gin-and-sprite. I myself am witnessing how the financial crisis is developing in Sweden, forcing them to abandon garbage vans (or whatever :-)
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Getting my face on Eurosport [check]
A friend of our liaison officer Cora was quick with the camera when our faces popped up on the big screen in the Shanghai 2011 World Championships arena. A moment later the messages came in from Faroe Islands, that they had seen us on Eurosport. Sweet, that must be a billion or more, counting Chinese national TV and all :-)
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Wow, the Speedo Pace Club videos & iPhone app
The Speedo Pace Club is commercial yes, but has some really nice technique videos, plus an iPhone app for you to track your training, find pools nearby and do some social thing with your swim friends too. And there are blogs of famous Team USA swimmers. I like.
Here it is Dana Vollmer world champion in the 100 butterfly demonstrating how to do the Butterfly 3-3-3 drill.
And here is a drill I must confess I’ve never seen. Must be some kind of ‘competitiveness drill’. Via Jorge Aquado.