Jake Schultheis “captured his only fish in the sea” with a pre-staged marriage proposal for girlfriend Cassidi Humphries on Thursday morning, a news release from the Virginia Aquarium said. It took a moment for Humphries to realize the message was intended just for her, but she got it when he got down on one knee, popped open a lighted ring box, and presented her with a diamond ring. And said “Yes!”. Read WAVY.com
Aww, and it rhymes and everything
The Australian Institute of Sport, working with Australia’s national swim team, has just published a new study of altitude training in the Europe Journal of Applied Physiology, where they took 37 elite swimmers and divided them into three groups:
Although they found a clear increase in total hemoglobin mass of about 4% in both altitude groups, they did not find the same increase in performance. In the scientists’ own words:
Although altitude training induced erythropoeisis, this physiological adaptation did not transfer directly into improved competitive performance in elite swimmers.
Read more here on Sweat Science
A statement by Namibia Swimming Union president Klaus Laborn has come under fire, that Nambian swimmers haven’t got enough time left to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics.
“We will not have Namibian swimmers qualifying for the Olympics. They are far away from the qualifying times, the spaces are limited and the time to qualify is also limited. We are working on getting there in four years timeâ€
He has since rephrased his statement, but the gates are closing anyhow, as participating nations need to submit a provisional list of athletes before March 15.
Any athlete not on these lists will not make be allowed to participate at the London 2012 Olympics, even if they make the time before July 9th.
Read Namibia Sport
Ian Thorpe has made late changes to his training regime in an effort to find form before the Olympic trials in March, following disappointing performances at the Victoria State Championships last week. He sat down with coach Gennadi Touretski, national head coach Leigh Nugent and performance science manager Bernard Savage to analyse his performance, and together they identified three areas that need to be addressed: Thorpe’s fitness, his training stimulation and approach to racing.
“When he swam the 400m (before his 2006 retirement), his fitness came from the work he did in the pool but now he’s not training enough (in the pool) to get that fitness,” Touretski said from Switzerland yesterday.
“He thought what he was doing was enough to swim sprints but it isn’t. The key thing is that his athletic level is not in place. So he must spend more time doing cardiovascular fitness work.”
Thorpe doesn’t have the time to make those fitness gains in the water, so the focus will be on training out of the pool – skipping, cycling, treadmill work.
“He never did dry-land training before because he did the work in the water but now he must,” the coach said. “We are establishing that program.”
To celebrate the Lunar New Year in 2012, the love story of Sampek Engtay was presented by Ocean Dream Samudra in Jakarta. “Who does not know about the Chinese legend of Sampek Engtay?” :-P
Via NTDTV
Hunter Develice trains just like any other swimmer on the Fond du Lac swimming team, but faces an extra obstacle on the way to the pool, as he was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4. “There were some people that told us a school swim team, maybe he should be just in a kids club or Special Olympics,” his dad said. Or as his coach Glen BcBride said, “When he won his first race, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Very exciting.” Read WBAY
Underwater photographer Paul Johnson witnessed how spinner dolphin’s play with large bag turned near-deadly, read Ynet.
Reminds me of this video
Rise Above Plastic – Plastic Kills! from Surfrider Foundation on Vimeo.
Just a quick impression from the Szczecin 2011 LEN European Short Course Championships.
High quality documentary on the swimmer Olivia Smoliga, Illinois Female Swimmer of the Year, holder of 3 state records there and about to represent Glenview Titan Aquatic Club (GTAC) in 4 events at the 2012 Olympic Trials.
Olivia Smoliga: Swimming For Gold from Kevin Mathein on Vimeo.
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