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“When in Rome…”

Bretin Mark Foster er sera harmur um, at FINA loyvir superdraktum aftur. Tað er at lesa á BBC Sport:

“The world championships are now going to be the suit wars and it’s taken the shine off swimming… …Michael Phelps is the best swimmer in the world but someone wearing a Jaked suit will beat him if he’s using a Speedo suit – they are that effective…. …I want to see the sport go back to a pair of swimming trunks but that will never happen because this has gone too far now. There’s also too much money involved in the swimsuit manufacturers… …To me these suits are the equivalent of steroids…”

Venjarin Michael Scott væntar, at svimjarir fara at mótmæla FINA:

“I have no doubt that the voice of swimming will make itself heard if what I expect to happen in Rome happens”

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”, sigur orðatakið, sum merkir, at man eigur at fylgja siðvenjuna hjá teimum lokalu, sum man ferðast hjá. So kanska eiga allir luttakarnir í komandi HM í Rom at svimja í Jaked draktum?

Draktir skulu latast inn og merkjast á HM í Rom

Hetta veit Craig Lord at siga, her á SwimNews.com: “We do now know what is yet to be revealed in detail: all suits that swimmers intend to wear in racing in Rome will have to be handed in a few days before action gets underway and those suits will be tagged in some way that will allow an official to use a supermarket-checkout-like gun to read a bar code and know that the swimmer is wearing the approved suit he or she submitted for tagging”.
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Amerikumenn hava nú eisini uppdagað Pál Joensen

Lesið áhugaverda grein her á susvim.com, um hvussu amerikanskur svimjivenjari á University of Pennsylvania peikar Pál Joensen út sum ein av trimum serliga áhugaverdum nýggjum andlitum á komandi heimsmeistarastevnuni í Rom. Ella lesið orðini hjá amerikumanninum beinleiðis, her á floswimming.org.

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2. Pal Joensen- Ok, even i admit this is kind of a longshot. Earlier this season, I mentioned offhand the exploits of this Faroese distance swimmer. A couple of years ago he was a European Junior Champion. He comes from an island nation of 40,000 people that until recently didn’t have roads between towns. Still, they had pools and Pal Joensen is a legit talent. This past year, he made the move to civilization and has begun training in Denmark. At the Danish open last week, he recorded times of 3:48, 7:54 and 15:02. None of those times will be good enough to medal this summer. Still, would you go full bore at a meet like that when you are guaranteed to be your country’s only rep at World Champs this summer? I’m banking that he didn’t, and this summer I’ll be cheering for a Faroese cinderella story in the mile.
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Phelps venur aftur, fram ímóti Rom 2009

Hann hevur ikki vant í 4 mánaðir, sum er longsta pausan hjá honum nakrantíð. Følir seg ‘rustnan’, og væntar tí at næstu mánaðirnir verða harðir, nú formurin skal byggjast upp aftur. Hann er nokk so mettur av svimjing, og venjingin hesi næstu 4 árini fer tí at verða nógv meira avslappað, enn tey 4 árini fram til Beijing. Men hann ætlar sær tó til HM í Rom, at svimja m.a. 100 rygg, um hann finna útav at ‘meistra’ greinina. Og annars tykjast málini framyvir at fara at vera ymiskar dreymatíðir, eisini í greinum sum vit ikki kenna hann í, meira enn at yvirganga seg sjálvan aftur. Les SwimNews

Tae-Hwan Park til USA at venja 1500

Suðurkoreanski Tae-Hwan Park, sum vann gull í 400 frí á OL í Beijing, fer nú til USA at venja í 6 vikur hjá tiltikna venjaranum David Salo, á University of Southern California, har m.a. 1500 metra svimjarin Larsen Jensen eisini hevur vant. Í sama viðfangi avdúkar xinhuanet.com, at Park ætlar sær at fokusera á 1500 frí, á HM í Rom, heldur enn 400: “First of all my goal is to break my record in the 1500 meters. Though I haven’t shown good performances in that event, I will rebound and do better. I will try to cut my time by .1 seconds in the turnaround
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Danir herða HM úttøkutreytirnar (vegna draktirnar)

Hetta skrivar Politiken. Nýggju ‘superdraktirnar’ hava betrað so nógv um heimsstøðið, at tað kravið sum danskarar høvdu roknað til at kunna geva umleið eitt 16. pláss á komandi HM, nú bara verður væntað at geva eitt 30. pláss. Og tí velja tey nú at broyta uppá tær kravtíðir sum longu eru almannakunngjørdar, so at tey ikki enda við at senda 20 svimjarar til Rom, harav bara helvtin hevur kjans at náa semifinalu.

(Danska Jeanette Ottesen, á EM í Rijeka)