Pál Joensen and Eyðbjørn Joensen ready for the Jóansøku 2010 open water swim in Vági, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Eyðbjørn with the thumbs up has opted for the insulated solution, while Pál opted for the really fast (and cold) Jaked ‘supersuit’ solution.
FINA has since before the Shanghai 2011 World Championships provided us with an interesting tool, demanding all World and Olympic qualification times to be submitted to their Swimming World Rankings. The London 2012 data set is of course not complete yet, with the qualification period spanning from March 1st 2011 to June 18th 2012 – but we still get an exciting overview over what is to come, when we put these data through pivot tables etc.
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»I had a shark following me for five days. It came pretty close at one time so that I was able to state “That’s not a tuna”« Follow him on www.thelongestswim.com
The Longest Swim – show demo from Ridgeline on Vimeo.
Nice song, I think by Portuguese singer here Marta Hugon. Bruno Pedroso on drums, Filipe Melo on piano, Mário Delgado on guitar and Nelson Cascais on double bass.
Swim Slow – Especial TV Marta Hugon from Nuno Neves on Vimeo.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ordered an increased six-month ban for 36-year-old Fabiola Molina, until April, after FINA appealed claiming that Brazilian authorities had treated her too leniently. Molina tested positive for Methylhexaneamine at the Brazilian trials for the 2011 World Championships last May, and was imposed a two-month ban from the Brazilian swimming federation, which cleared her to compete at the Pan-American Games last October in Guadalajara, where she won a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter medley. CAS has now ordered this to be increased to a six-month ban from December, less the two months she already served. Read The Washington Post
On Sunday January 15th, 42 divers from all parts of Estonia gathered for the 3rd annual ‘world’ underwater checkers championships. Players have six minutes per game, the checker pieces are made of lead, and last year they broke the Guinness world record with 55 contestants playing checkers underwater at the same time. Read NTN24
Highlights from the 2012 Orange Bowl Swim Classic at Jacobs Aquatic Center in Key Largo, Florida, January 4th, 2012, courtesy of The Race Club. Featuring Norway’s Aleksander Hetland at 0:47, maybe Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III at 0:54 and I think China’s Wu Peng at 1:08.
As Dale Oen puts it on Facebook: “Wonderful video about why athletes do what they do”
WHY – Nikon D4 Release Video from Corey Rich on Vimeo.
This is one of my favorite photos ( / swimming moments), despite of it being taken with a crappy DCR-HC96E camcorder meant for filming more than photography. A quay full of people in honor of the arrival of the island of Suðuroy’s triple 2008 European junior champion, Pál Joensen, and that little guy knows how to drive it home. Picture by the way taken only a few meters away from that picture yesterday, but now on dry land.
