Swimmer's Daily

  • Exciting list here on The Swimmers Circle, where Braden Keith has French swimmer Camille Lacourt most likely to set a world record in the short backstroke distances, then USA’s Rebecca Soni in the 200 breaststroke, Sun Yang in the 1500 freestyle, Ryan Lochte in the 200 IM, Soni again in the 100 breaststroke, and then several in the 400 freestyle. Sun Yang is on top on my list, in the 1500 and maybe 400 freestyle.

  • China’s Zhang Lin will not defend his 800 metres freestyle title at this month’s world championships in Shanghai because he is “out of shape”.

    “He is still far from his top form and is in an adjustment period now,” said national coach Yao Zhengjie, who has limited China’s most recognisable swimmer to just one individual event.

    “We decided to let him only swim in the 200m freestyle in Shanghai. We believe it’s the best choice for him. He’s out of his best shape.”

    Read more here on Eurosport.com.

  • Now we’re talking, a marvelous and generous coach who sets time aside to help out coaches even here in tiny Faroe Islands.

  • Wow, if it doesn’t work out between Charlene and Prince Albert II of Monaco, I think that she should go for this Ateliers deMonaco watch-maker, for being the obviously in-love, over-romantic Cyrano de Bergerac poet of watch-making. I mean, what woman wouldn’t fall for thoughts, commitments and words like these? Via blogs.forbes.com

    In fact, according to Pim Koeslag, co-founder of the company and its watchmaker, it was the princess herself who jokingly suggested that the company should have a ladies’ watch. “We promised her to start the development the next day,” Koeslag said. “And we actually did.”

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  • Yes please, very much. Via The Life Files.

  • I must confess, this story is so far out that I catch myself checking and re-checking that I’m not reading The Onion or something like that. The Haitian woman who was found floating in a public Fall River pool on Tuesday, apparently did drown in the pool on Sunday, with a boy noticing her going under, life guards being alerted, the people accompanying her knowing that she was missing, and health inspectors checking the pool on Monday and Tuesday.

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  • They don’t have eyes per se, but apparently detect light and form images by the way the shadows from the spines are falling on the surface of the body, creating one huge all-compassing compound eye. It is not 20/20-vision, but maybe as good as that of a nautilus. Still sounds confusing to me. Via www.sciencedaily.com.

  • She looks absolutely stunning, live broadcast here on palais.mc.

  • According to a recent nationwide survey from YouGov, british adults would rather be a world class swimmer than athlete, golf player or ice skater. Via swimming.org.

    Michael Phelps

    The question to the more than 2800 adults was, “Imagine that you could be world-class at one particular sport. Which sport would you choose?”. Swimming came out fourth among 33 sports, only beaten by really lucrative sports like football, Formula 1 racing and tennis.

    Split into gender, women ranked swimming second-highest only behind tennis. Men go more after the money, wanting to be a football player, Formula 1 driver, golf, cricket or tennis player, before choosing the stunning physique of a swimmer.