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  • It has not fallen well with the Italian olympic committee that Federica Pellegrini doesn’t want to server as flag bearer for Italy at the London 2012 Games, with the excuse that she doesn’t want to stand in a stadium for up to eight hours the night before her first race.

    Gazzetta dello Sport reports the response of CONI president Gianni Petrucci thus: “I understand. But to carry the flag is not the Way of the Cross.” He adds a yet more bitter note when he suggests that the swimmer is not acting with maturity.

    But the nice lady knows how to answer: “Whoever doesn’t understand that for me to stand up for eight hours the day before my Olympic race is impossible, isn’t blessed with very much intelligence, either that or they don’t know what standing up for eight hours feels like.”

    Read SwimNews and AFP

  • From the Phoenix NewTimes Blogs, read also
    SwimmingWorld Magazine.

    A former Arizona State University swimmer drowned in a university-owned swimming pool early Monday morning, and authorities suspect alcohol was involved.

    James Rigg and Andrew Schneller, both 22 and former members of the ASU swim team, sneaked into the Mona Plummer Aquatic Complex in Tempe about 1:30 a.m. Monday by hopping a fence surrounding the complex.

    ASU Police Commander James Hardina tells New Times that Rigg and Schneller then had a contest to see which of them could swim the farthest under water.

    “When Scheneller came up he noticed Rigg was not swimming,” Hardina says. “He thought Rigg got out of the pool and was hiding so he got out and looked around for him. Then, he noticed his friend had sunk to the bottom of the pool.”

    Hardina also points out that the pool is 18 feet deep and no lights were on.

    Once he noticed Rigg on the bottom, Schneller pulled him out of the water and started giving him CPR before calling 9-1-1.

    Rigg was taken to Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead about 3 a.m.

  • Even on his 100th birthday, Bill Toivonen is in the pool staying fit. The aerobics help the arthritis but also provide fun, fellowship and plenty of laughs. Read kare11.com

    “Part of the therapy is being around happy people,” chuckles Bill. “I feel as good as I did when I was 99.”

  • It has been a long and packed day, but finally we are at the hotel, after training in Eriksdalsbadet and a nice dinner at the hotel. All Faroese swimmers are here except Pál who arrives tomorrow, quite ready for a bit of fast swimming this weekend.

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  • Life-affirming post here on The Washington Times:

    Dara Torres became the oldest female swimmer in Olympic Games history in 2008. The American won three silver medals at age 41. Now she’s training to make the U.S. team competing at the 2012 Games/ Torres will be 45 when the London Olympics begin on July 27, 2012. If she makes the team, she would become the oldest Olympic swimmer ever.

    Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad gave up her attempt to break the open-water swimming record at age 62 last month, forced to abandon the 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida after 89 miles due to repeated stings from lethal Portuguese Man-O-War jellyfish. She says she knew she would have made it if not for the stings. She won’t try again, but she doesn’t consider the effort including two years of training a failure, calling it a “grand, elevating, life-confirming experience.”

    Dara Torres, after winning the silver

  • Danish breaststroker Rikke Møller Pedersen interviewing world champions Lotte Friis and Jeanette Ottesen at at shooting range in Leadville, Colorado. All in Danish, but who needs to understand what they saying, just look at their faces :-)

  • China’s Health Ministry announced over the weekend that 10 percent of public swimming pools in China exceed the safe limit for urea levels. The study was released after the Health Ministry inspected 5,639 swimming pools in 24 Chinese provinces, municipalities and regions from June through August 2011. Read for instance The Inquisitr, China Daily and Shanghaiist

    We don't swim in in your toilet - don't pee in our pool

  • Badly pressed for time here, and quite tired from last night, I’ll just quote SwimmingWorld Magazine, who had the story already yesterday (LOL, giving myself a high-five here :-)

    IN an exciting head-to-head matchup of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the team from Iceland proved to have just a bit more in the tank than the hosts in an 99-81 victory. The meet took place in short course meter format, and Iceland’s dominance in the women’s events proved to be too much for Faroe Islands’ strength in the men’s events.

    Read more here on the SwimmingWorld Magazine, and go to SwimmingWorld.TV to watch all the races, some interviews and other stuff. Thanks to SwimmingWorld Magazine and managing editor Jason Marsteller in particular, for giving us this opportunity.

  • Straight after work, it was north to Klaksvík to be interviewed on live TV about this upcoming dual meet and the fact that SwimmingWorld.TV will be hosting the on-demand videos. Meanwhile it gets mentioned on Streamlined News. Man, I hope our technical setup is gonna hold up tomorrow :-)

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