After making the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Team, Kaitlin Sandeno battled injury and missed qualifying for the 2008 squad. She sought other opportunities, but is now back in the sport of swimming, giving private lessons to kids looking to improve and hone their stroke. By gosh, I think someone has a shorter pool than we do. Via usaswimming.org.
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Rogan auctions off medals for charity
Austrian swimmer Markus Rogan raised $40.000 for children in Ethiopia and India this evening, by auctioning off his Dubai silver and bronze medals at a Tesfaye/ Zukunft für Kinder fundraiser in Vienna. Tesfaye means “my hope”, and is a child sponsorship project founded in 2008, currently supporting 100 children aged between 4 and 19 years, living under very poor conditions in two districts of Addis Ababa, Yeka and Arada Kebele. Zukunft für Kinder is a similar project trying to help out the many thousand street children living in the red light districts of Calcutta.This is the greatest party of my life! We just auctioned off my silver and bronze from dubai for usd 40 000!less than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
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Swedish sports people reveal sexual abuse
Former high jump world champion Patrik Sjöberg revealed in his memoirs published earlier this week how his former coach and stepfather Viljo Nousiainen molested him from he was 11 years old until he about the age of 15 had “the body of a grown man”. This after also former high jumper Christian Skaar Thomassen told him that he had been abused by Nousiainen, and before now track coach Yannick Tregaro revealed that he also had been molestated by Nousiainen.
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Girl killed by weight machine in Danish swimming pool
A 12-year-old girl died yesterday evening when a 2 meter high weight machine fell on top of her in the swimming pool Ringsted Svømmehal in Denmark. She was training with her swim team, doing some exercise on the floor when the tower tilted and fell on her head. A 12-year-old boy was also injured. Police and the Danish Working Environment Authority are examining how this accident could happen, but don’t expect to come to a conclusion this weekend. Source: jp.dk.
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Team Arena: Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Arena presenting Dutch sprint champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo. Sweet.
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Arena presents: Swimming Clinic with Lotte Friis
Lotte Friis has in my opinion one of the most perfect kayaking crawl techniques in the World, as taught by Estonian professor Rein Haljand.
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Sigsgaard swam 125 K in 48 hours
German Wasserwacht Spremberg arranged a 48 hour swim just recently, inviting amongst others Danish (real) long distance swimmer Grith Sigsgaard. She won and set a 125 kilometer world record, which is about 2.6 kilometers an hour, every hour for two days. If anyone is interested, they will be arranging a 24 hour (sprint?) swim on 18 – 19 July 2011. Via SwimNews.dk.
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Ian Thorpe at the Royal Wedding
Ian Thorpe is said to be “extremely humbled and overwhelmed” at receiving an invitation from the future King of England, who he has met only once at a Kirribilli House reception in 2009 when the Prince expressed an interest in Thorpe’s Fountain of Youth charity. Via scaq.blogspot.com and dailytelegraph.com.au.
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Sewer to be swimming pool in Norway
Norway’s Forsvarsbygg will announce on 2 May, who gets to rent the old sewer facilities under Festningsplassen in Oslo, very intriguingly described as more or less not used since 1979. Two cinema companies want to build Norway’s biggest cinema there, while the Norwegian Swimming Federation want to turn them into a 4000 square metre big water recreational facility, including a 4-lane 50 meter pool for training, a 50 meter pool for education and fun, a zone for diving, and a zone for just relaxing in. Via aftenposten.no.
