Swimmer's Daily

  • Elliot Almond of SJ Mercury interviewing Natalie Coughlin. “If they gave medals for being a foodie, Olympic swim champion Natalie Coughlin would win a gold. She’s even appeared on Iron Chef.”

    Natalie Coughlin, gold medal foodie

  • Ian Thorpe supporting his charity Fountain For Youth, via the17thman.

    Ian Thorpe – Fountain For Youth Promotional Video

  • The San Marino team outside Fjรถrugarรฐurinn in Hafnarfjรถrรฐur, Iceland, where we had quite an enjoyable ‘viking meal’, Saturday night at the โ€œ2nd Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europeโ€, June 12-13, 2010.

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    A recommended place, where you can be sworn in as viking and everything. One very special moment was these (very not viking)ย Harvard Din & Tonics who suddenly swarmed the place.

    The Harvard Din & Tonics sing "Almost Like Being In Love"

  • An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a “Higher Velocity Missile system” could be placed on a water tower, chosen as it is situated close to the Olympic Park and offers an excellent view of the surrounding area and the entire sky above the Olympic Park. Read The BBC and watch video.

    UK to put missiles on flats' rooftops to guard Olympics

    The residents are not all amused

    Olympic missile base plans: 'I can't imagine you can safely use a missile over east London'

  • Norwegian Dubai 2012 medalist Aleksander Hetland doing breaststroke-specific dryland training at altitude in Flagstaff, recently. Nice informative comments in Norwegian also, courtesy of Lars-Arne Andersen / Olympiatoppen on Facebook.

  • In conjunction with the announcement of the European Championship squad today, the Swedish Swimming Federation also terminated its partnership with national head coach Greg Salter, saying that ‘Swedish swim sport is facing a new phase of development and therefore needs to strengthen the national team and elite swimming with new skills.’ In her role as team manager, Ulrika Sandmark now has expanded responsibilities at the European Championships and the Olympic Games, where after the Swedish Swimming Federation in the autumn expects to have a permanent solution for the national team and elite center at Eriksdalsbadet. (In Swedish) myNewsDesk via simma.nu/se

    The Swedish Debrecen 2012 squad:

    • Mattias Carlsson, Uddevalla S
    • Michelle Coleman, Tรคby Sim
    • Rebecca Ejdervik, Tรคby Sim
    • Gabriella Fagundez, Vรคsby SS
    • Lars Frรถlander, Linkรถpings Allmรคnna SS
    • Stina Gardell, Spรฅrvรคgens SF
    • Martina Granstrรถm, Jรถnkรถpings SS
    • Louise Hansson, Helsingborgs S
    • Joline Hรถstman, Mรถlndals ASS
    • Jennie Johansson, Upsala S
    • Nathalie Lindborg, Malmรถ KK
    • Ida Marko Varga, SK Triton
    • Stefan Nystrand, Spรฅrvรคgens SF
    • Simon Sjรถdin, SK Neptun
    • Sarah Sjรถstrรถm, Sรถdertรถrns SS
    • Johannes Skagius, Sundsvalls SS
    • Petter Stymne, SK Neptun
    • Therese Svendsen, SK Ran

  • Former drugs cheats, including Dwain Chambers, will be eligible to compete for Britain at London 2012 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned the British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban on offenders. WADA had challenged the ban at a hearing in London last month claiming its controversial anti-doping bylaw non-compliant with its code, which the BOA are signatories too. This followed a CAS decision last October that the International Olympic Committee’s controversial Rule 45 – or “Osaka Rule” – banning convicted drugs cheats from future Games was illegal. Read Inside The Games

    Dwain Chamber awaits a decision by the Olympics Association (ITV1 London coverage)

  • Just something I put together last night, from the Drelnes – Tvรธroyri open water swim here in the Faroe Islands, last summer. Bartal told me to just cut short clips out and order them chronologically (which I have approximately done), and then choose a song from the vast YouTube audio collection that fitted in. Well, that song totally changes the mood that I had intended, but there you go :-)

    Joฬansรธkusvimjingin 2011

  • On April 11, the Debrecen 2012 organizing committee was approximately halfway through the preparations for the European Championships, or as director of the committee Mr Mihรกly Orendi puts it: “They usually award a European Championships to a host country two years prior to the beginning of the event. Two years โ€“ 730 days. We have had 96 days all in all, which is 13,13 % of the time. This is like a movie is fast forward mode. Which means we have completed a work of one and a half year so far. However, there is still a lot to to ahead of us.” Read more here on musz.hu.