A 56-year-old Swedish woman is likely to have died of a rare condition called “acute pulmonary oedema” – a buildup of fluid in the lungs – that can hit you when swimming in cold water. She was swimming with dolphins off New Zealand, when she started having problems with breathing, and died despite of doctors fighting to save her life. The coroner still rules the decision to go into the water reasonable, even though she suffered from suffered of breath, but calls for improved equipment and first aid practices on snorkeling boats. Read The Marlborough Express.
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Katie Hoff revealing the Fastskin3 system on The Today Show
Grin, “Matt asked Katie a question he rarely asks on-air: “Could you please take your jacket off?” Via today.msnbc.msn.com
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Under Armour event in Shanghai with Michael Phelps
Back in August, promoting the sports clothing and accessories company from his hometown Baltimore.
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It is here, the Speedo Fastskin³
According to Speedo, the Speedo FASTSKIN3 Racing System offers unrivalled benefits to swimmers, including a full body passive drag reduction of up to 16.6%, an 11% improvement in the swimmer’s oxygen economy enabling them to swim stronger for longer, and a 5.2% reduction in body active drag, to create the world’s fastest cap, goggle and suit ever. Read official press release at Speedo.com -
A quick update on Aksenova’s and Joensen’s situation in Vágur
As mentioned before, Russian record holder and Olympian Anastasia Aksenova is currently trying out training in Vágur, here in the Faroe Islands, now almost for two weeks. She competed at a local meet last Sunday, beating our record holder in the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.26 against Guðrun’s 26.55. And she endured our biggest storm since 1988 last Thursday, with roofs blowing off houses and stuff.
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Open Water Swimming Nutrition: Why We Get Fat
Interesting, still think that it helps to hold back a little :-)
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Criticism over all-male UK Sports Personality of the Year shortlist
The BBC is receiving criticism now after announcing a Sports Personality of the Year shortlist that for the first time since 2006 doesn’t include a woman. World champion Rebecca Adlington for instance tweeted (after receiving a lot of tweets about the list missing women) that “Think there has been some great women in sport this year including my best friend @KeriannePayne and sad they haven’t been recognised.”
http://twitter.com/#!/BeckAdlington/status/141446983717101569I totally agree, also because I don’t recognize many of the men on that list. If it is any consolation, Faroese media stopped having the “Faroese sports person of the year” award in 2010, after Pál Joensen winning it for three years (and another swimmer before that). And have now sort of relaunched the event with a “Faroese soccer player of the year” award. I’m not even kidding.
Here is Keri-Anne Paine for you, via the17thman
Via The Telegraph and Women’s Views on News
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Speedo claim their Fastskin3 suits will revolutionise the world of swimming
Here we go again, as mentioned before, Speedo is about to launch the most advanced swimwear design since the introduction in January 2010 of new FINA regulations banning full-body coverage and the use of polyurethane. Sources now say tomorrow November 30th, read for instance The Telegraph
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IOC campaign “Best of Us” asks all youths to share their best
Anchored by this “The Yellow Line” commercial featuring Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, the Olympic Committee encourages all young athletes to record and submit videos of “their personal best” to the web site olympic.org/showyourbest, and to vote on other submitted videos. The site will include a “mash-up creator” which takes the user-submitted videos and mixes them with footage from Olympic Games past, available on the Games’ Facebook page, channels on YouTube and Chinese video hosting service Youku. With the chance to win gadgets and ultimately a trip to the London 2012 Olympics. Via The New York Times and bigleadsports
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