Womens’ 200 individual medley at the 32è Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona de Natació 2011. Australia’s Alicia Coutts wins in 2:09.68, Spanish Mireia Belmonte is 2nd in 2:12.55, and Great Britain’s open water swimmer Keri-Anne Payne is 3rd in 2:13.99. Coutts’ winning time was the best female performance on the Barcelona leg (934 FINA points), for which she was named Barcelona 2011 cup winner alongside Japan’s Ryosuke Irie.
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Janet Evans is making a comeback (!)
Janet Evans walked away from swimming after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, with her gold medals and world records that stood for many many years, morphed into a spokeswoman, got married and had two kids. Now in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, 39-year-old Evans revealed that she’s been training hard for the past six months with an eye on qualifying for the next year’s Olympic trials and, if all goes according to plan, earning a spot on the U.S. team for the London Games 2012. Read more here on newser.com and ap.org.
The first official test for Evans will come this weekend at the Janet Evans Invitational Masters meet in Fullerton, Calif. According to the Associated Press article, Evans will swim the 400- and 800-meter freestyles – events in which she held the world record – as well as the 200 freestyle and 200 backstroke. This will be Evans’ first competition since the 1996 Olympics. See www.swimmingworldmagazine.com.
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Cayman’s Brett Fraser receives kudos for brain power
Two-time NCAA swimming champion and Olympian Brett Fraser from the Cayman Islands has now also earned recognition as an Academic All-American. To be considered for that award, a student-athlete must have achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30, be at least a sophomore academically and be a starter or key player on the team. Brett was named to the third team after achieving an impressive 3.43 GPA in finance, also making it onto the academic honor roll three times.
“Congratulations to Brett. He is the ultimate role model. Not only is he pushing the limits with his swimming, but he is showing every aspiring student that academics needn’t lag behind,†Sports Minister Mark Scotland said. “We are proud to have someone like Brett represent us on the world stage and wish him well for the future.â€
Read CaymanNewsService and gatorzone.com
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This is how swimmers do pushups (!)
Yeah yeah, we are slow and dorky and have no balance. Kudos Wolverines !
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Polarized filters are perfect for water shots
If you want to take photos through surface glare into water, or just want to cut down surface glare, you are going to need a polarized filter. This otherwise beautiful video doesn’t demonstrate exactly that perfectly, so I added a comparison photo that demonstrates it better. By the way, you can get the same effect by wearing sunglasses with polarization, which might explain why so many swimming coaches use them. Via PetaPixel.Polarizing Filters for Photo and Video from Olivia Speranza on Vimeo.
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Someone trying out the new Michael Phelps video game
The 17thman has found this video of someone from gaygamer.net trying out the new “Michael Phelps: Push The Limit” game for Xbox 360 with Kinect. My comment is ‘Oh, the humanity, look at those elbows!’ Seriously, if the game allows you to keep up with the world’s best with that technique, then it is more a matter of getting as many as possible to think that they could be there, than to teach anybody anything.
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The London 2012 Aquatics Centre is getting there
Webcam photo from the interior of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre this morning, see the most recent photo here.
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Behind The Goggles: Ryan Lochte’s Playlist
Ryan Lochte talks to USA Swimming about what’s on his playlist. iPhone 4 user alert, with frame case for that extra phone calling functionality. Via the17thman.
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Mare Nostrum Canet is LIVE on Sport+
French channel Sport+ is transmitting LIVE from Mare Nostrum Canet 2011 at this moment, as a TV broadcast and maybe even as a live stream here on sportplus.fr (where I get a “Nom de domaine interdit” / “No domain name” error message in the player window). There also seem to be more dodgy solutions like this one, which I’m quite sure are illegal and therefore not to be used.
