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Tag: Shanghai 2011

  • This girl has stretched

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    Amazing performance at the FINA Gala Dinner.

  • Second impression, the Chinese are really nice

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    I haven’t met an unpleasant person in Shanghai, period. I’ve had teenage classmates robbed in broad daylight outside Macy’s on Broadway, a friend attacked for just walking home from a party in Copenhagen, and experienced the French in general in Paris. Shanghai Pudong district is nothing like that.

  • International swimming is a whole lot of hotel

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    Participation at World Championships sounds very exotic, but is in fact quite tedious at times. The swimmer’s need to rest between 1 or 2 swim sessions a day, which means that you spend most of your time either at the hotel, the pool, or travelling between those two places. With little time for touristing the…

  • The Shanghai 2011 start lists are now ready

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    FINA has released the revised psych sheets for the World Championships, to be seen for instance here on Omegatiming.com. My personal focus is of course on the 800 and 1500 freestyle for men, where our guy Pál Joensen from the Faroe Islands is ranked No. 9 in the 800 and No. 6 in the 1500.

  • This pool is reserved for Pál Joensen

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    Dumb luck or respect, Pál Joensen got to swim totally alone at the Yuan Shen Natatorium in Shanghai yesterday at noon. Afternoon training was packed though, with all the big countries in the pool, and the deck crowded with camera crews filming Tae-hwan Park, USA et al.

  • Cesar Cielo gets off with a warning

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    The Court of Arbitration for Sport today upheld a decision by the Brazilian swimming federation to impose the minimum penalty – a warning – after Cesar Cielo, Nicholas dos Santos and Henrique Barbosa tested positive for a banned diuretic in May. Fourth swimmer Vinicius Waked has been served with a suspension for one year, since…

  • Keri-Anne Payne 10K World Champion for the second time in a row

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    Keri-Anne Payne retained the world 10K crown at the Shanghai 2011 world championships today, becoming the first British athlete to qualify for the Olympic Games in London 2012. She led from the start until the third of four 2.5 km circuits, before being overtaken for a while by Australia’s Melissa Gorman, and then deciding it…

  • Half-boiled from the hot humidity

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    So I went out to search for that mall again, that I couldn’t find yesterday, and didn’t find today either. Found other things though, like (incidentally) the Yang Shen Natatorium, before returning two hours later with fingers so swollen, that there was squeaking resistance when I clenched my fists.

  • Social networking tough at Shanghai 2011

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    Australians and Americans write about the difficulties we’re having with keeping up with our social statuses, while inside the Great Firewall of China. Some have found solutions by creating their own virtual private network (VPN) to a server outside of China, while others might have found a loophole using some maybe less restricted internet at…