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Our top ten stories from 2011

Jan 4, 2012

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rokur

in Swimmer’s Daily
2011 has been a fun year here on Swimmer’s Daily, with increasing visit numbers since the sort-of-relaunch in March. Site focus is as the motto says ‘a fast fix blog about swimming’, that hopefully can provide readers with short bursts of fun and/or interesting swim-related content, as a break for instance between tedious training. Preferably visual. I don’t want to bore you with long rants or heavy statistics, so here are the most popular posts of 2011 …
The numbers in parenthesis are the pageviews according to Google Analytics.

Image of Larsen Jensen with Michael Phelps, George W. Bush et al courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Sportingwales photoshoot with Ieuan Lloyd

Jan 4, 2012

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rokur

in Fun, Technology

Photographer Steve Pope proving you can produce good photographs the old fashioned way with a bit of lighting, a bucket of water and no photoshop. A story was by the way on WalesOnline December 30th, on how Ieuan Lloyd is looking to emulate the achievements of Cardiff clubmate David Davies by becoming a teenage Olympian.

Sportingwales photoshoot with Ieuan Lloyd from Steve Pope on Vimeo.
CC photo #5: A team GB supporter at Roma 2009

Jan 4, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Fun

A team GB supporter with inflatable clapper sticks on the athlete’s stand at the Roma 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Anyone recognize her?

Update: Tom Willdridge of Speed Endurance Swimming Blog did: Caitlin McClatchey
PÃ¡l Joensen has his own website now

Jan 4, 2012

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rokur

in Gossip

Danish coach RenÃ© Thomsen has been busy this holiday, building a website for Faroese long-distance swimmer PÃ¡l Joensen on www.paljoensen.com, with accompanying YouTube-channel, Flickr- and Twitter-account. They promise news, photos and videos on the site, including pretty soon ‘an exclusive insight into PÃ¡l’s dryland training’. Looking forward to it!

Via SwimNews.dk
Jessica Vilchis: Road to London 2012 featuring Lochte and Franklin

Jan 3, 2012

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rokur

in Competition, History

A bit old, from when U.S. Nationals were in California last August, but a nice recap of when Ryan Lochte set the first long course record in 19 months, at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. Rebecca Soni and Melissa “Missy” Franklin also mentioned.

Jessica Vilchis: Road to London 2012 Ep. 2 from JessicaVilchis.Com on Vimeo.
Fishing under ice

Jan 3, 2012

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rokur

in Fun, Nature

What is happening here ?

Fishing under ice from Juuso MettÃ¤lÃ¤ on Vimeo.
Pentagon developing impulse gun to make swimmers puke mid-stroke

Jan 3, 2012

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rokur

in Gossip, Open Water, Safety

According to Wired, publicIntelligence.org leaked a U.S. Department of Defence â€œNon-Lethal Weapons Reference Bookâ€ online last week, that amongst other thinks mentions an “Impulse Swimmer Gun” that uses “pulsed sound waves” to cause “auditory impairment and/or nausea” among scuba divers engaged in “unauthorized underwater activities”. As if sharks and sea swells wasn’t enough. Read Wired.
New Years swimming to support domestic violence victims

Jan 3, 2012

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rokur

in Fun, Health, Open Water

In Maine, roughly half of the homicides over the past ten years have been caused by domestic violence. On New Year’s day, hundreds of people took a ‘Polar Bear’ plunge in the Atlantic ocean at Gooches Beach in Kennebunk to support those victims by raising money for Caring Unlimited. Read wcsh6.com and see video:
UT fires longtime head swim coach for “gross misconduct”

Jan 3, 2012

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rokur

in Gossip, Organization

University of Tennessee Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics Dave Hart announced Tuesday that head menâ€™s swimming and diving coach John Trembley has been relieved of his duties. Assistant coach Lars Jorgensen will serve as the interim head coach for the program for the remainder of the season. Read for instance vonuteertv.com and govolsxtra.com

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