The Mare Nostrum circuit starts in Barcelona this weekend, and our guy Pál Joensen will be there, along with 4 juniors from our Faroese squad. The start list promises a lot of world-class racing, as swim stars from around the world prepare for Shanghai 2011.
Legendary swimmer Diana Nyad talks about her sport and her plans, at the age of 61, to swim from Havana to the Florida coast without a shark tank this summer.
OK, it gets a bit scary for a while, but beautiful nonetheless.
Teens urged to swim where a lifeguard is present, stay clear of the hydros in the canal walls and keep away from high voltage wires [Heck, maybe even to switch their brains on again?]. “We don’t have a problem with them swimming, it’s the danger.”
As mentioned on April 29, Norway’s Forsvarsbygg is looking for new usage of the old sewer facilites under Festningsplassen in Oslo, with bidders being at least a cinema, a concert hall and a water recreational facility. Next phase is a “Fight Club” in the old (and I guess not yet renovated) facilities on June 1st, arranged by Oslo Arkitektforening (Architect Union of Oslo) and Oslo Byforum (Oslo City Forum), which will result in a winner being chosen at the end of the night. Fighting for the sewer pool, in the blue corner, president of the Norwegian Swimming Federation, Per Rune Eknes. As they say here, ‘For the first time ever, the Fight Club goes underground. It is guaranteed to become dirty.”
Via simma.nu/no
Interesting interview here on Welt Am Sonntag, where Steffen says that she will let her hair grow up to the Olympics, only cutting the tips as a good luck charm. She hopes to do good at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, to prove that she is still to be reckoned with, but has her absolute focus on London 2012, where after she will start her master’s degree in business communication. And then she talks about her love for kids, maybe planning some with her fiancé Paul Biedermann. The 123. German Championships start on Tuesday, which double as selection for Shanghai 2011. Via SwimNews.dk
It is an established tradition for Olympic athletes to get the rings tattoed on themselves after participating in the world’s ultimate sporting spectacle, and nowhere is this more apparent than at USC. That’s because coach Dave Salo has amassed a training group that is pushing close to 20 Olympic swimmers.
*Hardy qualified for the 2008 Olympics before withdrawing, and as such has technically never participated
Read more here on theswimmerscircle.com.
Some tough Icelandic vikings taking a dip in 7.5° Celcius warm water (45.5° Fahrenheit). We call it ‘Faroe-white’, when someone (as me) has the skin color of someone who has never seen the sun. Apparently, there is a ‘Icelandic-white’ color too :-)
Ãslandsbankasjósund 20. maà 2011 from Ragnar Torfi Geirsson on Vimeo.
By gosh, it probably started here, for me personally, with watching the films of Jacques Cousteau in the 70ies. Rest in peace, Captain!
333 – A Tribute to Jacques Cousteau /100 Years from joe romeiro on Vimeo.
