Tað sær tíverri út til at “open water” svimjing er rakt av enn eini vanlukku, nú 45 ára gamli Nick Mallet ikki er aftur í komin eftir Midmar Mile kappingini í Suðurafrika í vikuskiftinum. Tey siga annars at kappingin var rættiliga trygg, við 140 lívbjargarum runt rutuna, men misteinkja at maðurin fekk hjartatilburð og sakk. Í kappingini luttók eisini Roland Schoeman, har Chad Ho vann hjá monnum, og Keri-anne Payne hjá kvinnum. Lesið her á SwimmingWorld Magazine.
“The problem is that no one saw anything or reported seeing a man struggling during the race. And the dam is very big and the water levels are high so it is very challenging for us to locate the whereabouts of the body.”
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Search-for-Midmar-Mile-swimmer-continues-20110215
Steve Munatones, a FINA technical committee member for open water swimming, is also one of 28 people with voting rights for the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. After visiting South Africa’s aQuelle Midmar Mile on the weekend, he told SAinfo: “It sets the worldwide bar in every category.”
Munatones, a former world 25-kilometre open water champion and coach of the USA’s national team at numerous open water World Championships, named a number of areas in which the world can learn from the Midmar Mile, including safety, hospitality, organisation, the inclusion of disabled athletes (he is involved with the Special Olympics), signage, awards, and the scale of the event.
http://www.southafrica.info/news/sport/midmar-mile-140211.htm
Midmar Mile er størsta ‘open water’ tiltak í heiminum, við yvir 16.000 luttakarum, hesu ferð.
Tá nytta 140 lívbjargarar ikki nógv.
Fyriskiparin roynir at verja seg við at maðurin ikki er funnin enn, og at tað tí er ‘unfair’ hjá fjølmiðlum at gita at maðurin er druknaður. Og hoppar so útí tað við sjálvur at gita at maðurin hevur fingið hjartaslag:
Mín viðmerking: Størsti trupulleiki er væl sum við Crippen, at maðurin bleiv vekk. Tí líka mikið um hann druknaði ella fekk hjartaslag, so kundi hann kanska bjargast um onkur fann hann nóg tíðliga !
Koyr okkurt á svimjararnar so at teir ikki kunnu søkkja. Krevur ikki meira enn 5 kg av uppdrift.
Ella ger okkurt slag av ‘søkki-alarmi’. Eingin havsvimjari kavar við vilja.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Midmar-Mile-swimmer-still-not-found-20110216
Lesið her á http://www.iafrica.com:
“I can confirm that the body has been found. I don’t know how it was recovered. You will have to speak to the guy who found the body,” said race director Wayne Riddin.
http://news.iafrica.com/sa/706803.html
– Hasin Riddin virkar fyri mær sum ein líka stórur diplomatur sum Chuck Wielgus