Swimmer's Daily

  • An insightful video here from the joint Icelandic and Faroese training camp in Singapore, preparing for the Shanghai World Championships. A lot of the speak is in Faroese and Icelandic, but lucky for you, their coach Jacky Pellerin is French (former coach of Franck Esposito), and the communication with him therefore in English. The subject is all the way through the immense heat, sun and humidity in Singapore, compared to the North Atlantic, and that exercise Pál is doing is a 10 minutes static lift.

  • So our guy Magnus Jákupsson from the Faroe Islands qualified for his second semi-final at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade today, almost reaching the final with a 26.76 and 10th spot of the 16. He is young, one more year as a junior, so he will get there next year :-)

  • According to The Australian, Ian Thorpe and Eamon Sullivan will be revealing a cooking book each next, Thorpe the “Cook For Your Life” focusing on food he loves while maintaining a healthy, lean body, and Sullivan a more no-nonsense book called “Eamon’s Kitchen: 130 robust no-fuss recipes for everyday and entertaining.”

    So, we present Eamon in the kitchen, almost fuss-less :-)

  • Australian swim coach Denis Cotterell is in a unique position to evaluate the strength of Chinese swimming, given that he has in recent years trained a number of the country’s best swimmers in his Gold Coast-based squad, including fastest man in the world for this year in the 200, 400, 800 & 1500 freestyle, Sun Yang.

    ‘People might be surprised by the time the world championships are over and realise there is another major, major player in the world and while we’ve always tried to square up to America I think we’ll be doing well to come up to China.”

    Another veteran swim coach, Ken Wood, who guided the early careers of the likes of Leisel Jones, Jess Schipper and Geoff Huegill, has also taken on a number of China’s top swimmers. “They’re going to dominate,” Wood said. “Their financial resources are unlimited and they’re prepared to pay.”

    Cotterell said the reasons, such as a fighting spirt, strong work ethic and incredible will to succeed of the Chinese swimmers, were obvious. “The ones I’ve had – not all of them but most of them, just train harder,” Cotterell said.

    “They train harder than anyone else I’ve had, except Grant (Hackett). Australians aren’t bludgers and they’re training all right but we have to learn more.

    Read more here on theage.com.au

  • My dear brother teases me that as royal correspondent for the Swimmer’s Daily, I cannot just quit at the wedding. So here you are, the moment when they married, now we’ll go searching for their honeymoon pictures :-)

  • Wait a minute, Lochte does abs every Monday, Wednesday, Friday FOR AN HOUR ?!? That is as much time as Steve West spends on SWIMMING ! :-)

  • Soon we can stop fighting for water at the refrigerators, and instead just pee in a special bag, wait for 4-6 hours, and then have perfectly drinkable sugary sports drink to enjoy. No external power needed, because it relies on the passive property of fluids called forward osmosis. NASA will make an astronaut test this on the Atlantis leaving this Friday, with a blue potassium-rich solution instead of pee, which I feel is a bit chicken.

    Via Wired.com.

  • Comprising a 50m indoor heated-pool with 960-seat spectator stand and an outdoor 25m teaching-pool, Tung Chung Swimming Pool will be a public facility for residents in Tung Chung New Town in the suburban area of Hong Kong. The design takes the concept of a sea shell resting on the shore, and using a double-layer PTFE tensioned membrane over a steel truss system, the building will allow daylight to infiltrate it so that, in all seasons, user staying indoor can bathe in diffused and glare-free natural light. Read more here on World Architecture News, via inhabitat.com.

     

  • Alright, I’ve learned that he had a bad experience as a kid, but didn’t know that it was so bad that he had to be resuscitated. Read theadvertiser.com, and let’s support his efforts to encourage more people to learn how to swim.

    At an amusement park in Pennsylvania when he was 5, Jones almost lost his life when an inner tube he was riding on flipped over.

    “I was completely supervised,” said Jones, who spoke with hundreds of youth in Shreveport in 2010 and shared his story. “My parents were right there watching me and the lifeguards were watching me and I almost drowned. I had to be completely resuscitated.”

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