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Month: August 2011

  • The new London 2012 Olympic logo

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    Ouch :-S via Laughing Squid.

  • Inside the London 2012 Aquatic Centre

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    One word: Awesome. Via Speed Endurance Swimming Blog

  • Met up with Chris DeSantis in CPH today

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    The Copenhagen 2011 international swimming blogosphere top summit went OK, me thinks, with me and Chris coming to a preliminary agreement about how to divide up the world between the two of us. Notice the coffee cups, and follow him on The Swim Brief.

  • USA Swimming Deck Pass promo

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    This looks interesting, maybe USA Swimming exclusive but inspirational when it comes to giving everyone something to strive for. Nice mobile app too, see www.usaswimming.org/deckpass. USA Swimming Deck Pass Video from Gregg Goodwin on Vimeo.

  • They don’t get anything to eat at Noma ?

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    Doesn’t sound like a two star Michelin restaurant ‘best in the World’ to me :-P Just found out I won’t be fed anything to eat until 5pm…starting at 9am. I’m in serious trouble! Gotta do it Haha #Copenhagen #Nomaless than a minute ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry Favorite Retweet ReplyGarrett Weber-GaleG_WeberGale

  • Diana Nyad forced to abandon her big swim

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    Attempting to become the first person to swim between Cuba and Florida, Diana Nyad was forced to abandon roughly halfway through her journey, struggling with ocean swells, shoulder pain and asthma. Still shell-shocked from Faroese media’s coverage of the World Championships, I’m sure that the gutter press will write “Nyad gives up, only manages to…

  • Diana Nyad has started her big swim

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    Sunday evening August 17th at 19:45.10 ET, 61-year-old Diana Nyad started her 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, attempting to set a new long distance world record in ocean swimming without a shark cage. You can follow her progress in near-real-time here on CNN, and read more here on diananyad.com.

  • Hiatus

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    Yeah, it is a bit quiet here. Last news from Pál was that he was lying in the sun somewhere with his girlfriend, listening to Led Zeppelin, reading Dostojevskij and enjoying a gin-and-sprite. I myself am witnessing how the financial crisis is developing in Sweden, forcing them to abandon garbage vans (or whatever :-)

  • Getting my face on Eurosport [check]

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    A friend of our liaison officer Cora was quick with the camera when our faces popped up on the big screen in the Shanghai 2011 World Championships arena. A moment later the messages came in from Faroe Islands, that they had seen us on Eurosport. Sweet, that must be a billion or more, counting Chinese…