Swimmer's Daily

  • The Danes are testing out a for them new system this year, allowing only results from the Danish Open finals as qualification times for the World Championships in Shanghai and European Junior Championships in Belgrade this summer. It worked out well, with three swimmers qualifying for the World Championships and 10 for the European Junior Championships, during the first 2 hour-long final session, and Mie Ø. Nielsen from Aalborg erasing the 8 year record of Jeanette Ottesen in the 100 freestyle.

    Mie with her coach and national junior coach at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup

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  • Swimming Canada will be broadcasting live from their 2011 World Championships Trials, March 30th to April 2nd from 5h45pm PST, here on swimcanweb.tv, with listing of results here. I’ve put those links on our new LIVE page here, together with links for similar webcasts and results from other upcoming events, and a clock to help us figure out all those different time zones.

  • Olympic 10km silver medalist and world champion Keri-Anne Payne explains the two major kinds of breathing patterns here, breathing bilaterally or only to one side. I personally don’t agree that you cannot switch between the two kinds of breathing patterns during a long distance event, for instance if single-laterally breathing swimmers want to catch a good view of the swimmer on their ‘blind’ side, or just to stretch out their neck a bit. But the video is nice :-)

  • Danish Open starts tomorrow, promising some great swims especially in the long distance events, now when the best swimmers from Denmark and neighboring countries will try to qualify for Shanghai 2011. Live timing and webcast will be available here on the by the way very brilliant www.livetiming.se, prelims from 10 AM Danish time and finals from 17:30 PM. As an additional service, we here at Swimmer’s Daily have now launched www.swimmersdaily.com/live, where we try to line up as many live event services as possible, on an as small space as possible, with some added chat functionality.

  • Another on TwitpicDanish swimmers Lotte Friis and Rikke Møller Pedersen are among the first Danish athletes to test the effect of hypoxic tents, as a mean to prepare for classic altitude camps, and prolong the effect of them. The Danish elite sport organization Team Danmark has criticized the use of hypoxic tents up until 2009, but has changed opinion now according to Lars Johansen sport physiologist at Team Danmark’s test center:

    There is an opening that Danish athletes can use the legal technology that is available. We test it on a some named athletes, who we know have experience with altitude training. (more…)

  • Frédérick Bousquet will race for France at the world titles in Shanghai, after accepting the stance of his federation over a coaching-staff policy for world championships in Shanghai that will exclude the sprinter’s Australian coach at Auburn in the US, Brett Hawke.

    Frédérick Bousquet at the Rijeka 2008 ESSC

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  • Nice campaign by Swimming Canada, to get people swimming “For Fun, For Life, For Glory!”. See www.swimming.ca/seeyourselfswimming

  • Yes, this is getting a bit thin, but PetaPixel says that the shot shared yesterday compared to this one is like comparing 2D to 3D. And they are even less a surfing blog than we.

  • Presenting the smart cap Arena Smartcap Swim Cap: You wear it in 5 seconds, even with long hair. It’s … smart :-)