Very nice, very nice indeed. A guide was waiting for us at the end of the ramp from the airplane, guiding us via special express-lanes through customs formalities to our luggage, and then straight to the hotel. Here, I was greeted with flowers by the hotel staff, and then met our liaison officer Cora, who had been studying her guests down to the detail where she had drawn the Faroese flag by hand in her notebook, ready to take me to the accreditation office.
The FINIS Aquapulse Heart Rate Monitor is now available, ready to measure your heart rate via your earlobe, and then communicate it to you in real time through bone conduction. Waterproof of course. Only $149.99, but I wish they’d squeezed a MP3-player into it also. See FINIS, via engadget.com.
We’re here, after a tough ordeal of travel and transit from Saturday morning to Sunday. The Chinese have been very welcoming and effective, so that I now have my accreditation and everything, ready for action these coming days. Shanghai is hot and humid, but the hotel is nice and cool, the food good and the people pleasant. And the internet works :-)
Fox 5 Newscaster demonstrating here how not to use the Jetlev r200, if not you’re trying for an all-time low :-)
Me and the president will be leaving Faroe Islands tomorrow, heading for Denmark, Finland and then China. Arriving in Shanghai early on Sunday. I don’t know if I’ll be able to post anything from there, but will do my very best :-)
SwimmingWorld has posted several interesting videos here on tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com, from the 2011 USA World Championships Training Camp in the Gold Coast Aquatic Center in Queensland, Australia. Here below it is Michael Phelps being interviewed on Media Day.
The positive test of Brazilian swimmer Cesar Cielo is a disaster for the sport, according to triple Olympic Champion Pieter van den Hoogenband. “This is terrible”, says Pieter, “swimming is at the Olympics on par with athletics”. “The sport is so popular because it was clean, the swimming had no doping affairs. Disastrous, that this happens with a big name.” Source Hollandswimming, probably clumsily translated by me and Google Translate.
FINA has awarded the next two World Championships hosting duties to Kazan, Russia and Guadalajara, Mexico, leaving out Hong Kong of the three cities which had made the final three to be named host of the events. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine.
Laure Manaudou returned to competitive swimming today with a 25.93 in the Athens, Georgia 2011 Speedo Championship Series 50 free prelims. This is a personal best time ever according to Speed Endurance’s Tom Willdridge. Links to psych sheets and live results here on Nick Brunelli’s blog.
