People going crazy on Polar Bear Swim 2012 at English Bay, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. Air temperature: 5ºC / 41ºF. Water temperature: 7.7ºC / 46ºF.
Polar Bear Swim 2012 from Beto Galetto on Vimeo.
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The Race Club interviewing Ryan Cochrane and Randy Bennett
“Randy Bennett is the Canadian Head Coach for the 2012 Olympics. Ryan Cochrane looks to be the only challenger to current world record holder in the 1500 meter freestyle Sun Yang of China heading into the London Olympics.”
Let’s (hopefully) see about that last statement! :-P
Video courtesy of Gary Hall Sr. / The Race Club, including “footage of Ryan’s amazing technique”.
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Carry and Keri-Anne having Kopi Luwak (cat poo) coffee
Fun tweet from David Carry, who has been testing some Kopi Luwak coffee. We’re talking coffee made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Toddy Cat), defecated, gathered, washed, sun dried, roasted and brewed. And then drunk by people as the most expensive coffee in the world with prices reaching $160 per pound. Nice.
http://twitter.com/#!/davidcarry/status/153827524869234688Image courtesy of Praveenp / Wikimedia Commons
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CC photo #3: Thumbs up from Alex in Budapest
So this photo is from when I was shooting some sponsor photos of Pál and the rest of us at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships competition pool, between prelims and finals the penultimate day of the meet. European 100 meter breaststroke champion Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) was swimming more or less alone in the pool, taking it easy before the 50 meter breaststroke final that evening. -
Robbie Renwick’s Olympic Diary on the Scottish Sun
Scotland’s Robbie Renwick will be writing about his preparations for the London 2012 Olympics every forthnight in The Scottish Sun, here is the first chapter.MY alarm normally goes off at quarter to five each morning.
Then it’s a quick bowl of Special K or Rice Krispies and off for the start of training half an hour later at Glasgow’s Gorbals Leisure Centre.
I know it’s a crazy time to be up. But in swimming it’s all or nothing.
Thankfully yesterday I had a rare break from the all too familiar sound of the buzzer going off though.
As we train in public pools we have to rely on when they’re open.http://twitter.com/#!/RobbieRenwick/status/153773884028628992
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The Burien 2012 Polar Bear Plunge from a swimmer’s POV
Three Tree Point, Burien, Washington. January 1st, 2012. Air temperature: 53°F (11.7°C). Water temperature: Colder :-) Via b-townblog.com
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A close encounter with a young sperm whale
Video captured in Dominica in 2010 with a RED 4K camera (the Lamborghini of video cameras), by Howard Hall. Those things are huge, even when they are small.
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How much is a British Olympic gold medal worth? £2m
Leading sponsorship agency Octagon estimates according to the Independent, that some British athletes could pick up £2m (US$ 3.1 million) before Rio 2016, should they win gold at the London 2012 Olympics, and 22-year-old super-heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua maybe even up to £5m.
Swimmer Adlington, who said after Bejing that all she wanted was to buy a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes, could follow in the footsteps of Imelda Marcos should she strike double gold again.
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Ellen Gandy the Brit that lives farthest away from the London 2012 Olympic Park
The Independent has this fun article today called “The long, short and tall of Britain’s Olympic hopefuls“, lining up interesting ‘records’ of British athletes training for the London 2012 Olympics, like 18-year-old featherweight weightlifting champion Hannah Powell being the shortest and lightest with her 4 ft 9 in (144 cm) height and 7 stone (44.4 kg) weight … so small that she had to convince a male date that she was member of the British weightlifting team by lifting him on her shoulders.
Shanghai 2011 bronze medallist Ellen Gandy is mentioned:
Furthest resident from Olympic Park
Ellen Gandy lives 10,059 miles from the Olympic Aquatics Centre where she is expected to be a British medal contender. The 20-year-old, who won a 200m butterfly bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, lives and trains in Melbourne in Australia. Born  in Bromley, Gandy competed for Beckenham but her family relocated Down Under four years ago. Her father Simon is executive general manager of Melbourne Airport.
