Swimming 2018 Discussion Thread

[phelps 8,728]

Alessandro Miressi, just a few days after becoming European Champion over the men's 100m Freestyle, earlier today at the National Age Groups Championships improved his PB (48.00, swam in the European Final) and clocked the new Italian Record over the distance in 47.92...

new National Record also for Ilaria Bianchi ("only" 4th in Glasgow earlier this week) over the women's 100m Fly with 57.22, which would have given her a medal if clocked in Scotland...

 

as usual, many Italian swimmers improve their best times when it's too late and when it doesn't really count that much...

Edited August 12, 2018 by phelps

[heywoodu 16,465]

2008 Olympic open water champion Maarten van der Weijden is swimming a bit over 200 kilometer these days to get money for cancer research (the illness he had before his gold medal). He started yesterday morning around 4am and is expected to finish somewhere late tomorrow

 

Live stream:

Spoiler

 

 

He's following the 'Eleven Cities Tour' course, which is this wonderful, legendary speed skating race (which sadly hasn't been held in over 20 years already because of a lack of real winters):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht

[Gianlu33 6,029]

3 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

He's following the 'Eleven Cities Tour' course, which is this wonderful, legendary speed skating race (which sadly hasn't been held in over 20 years already because of a lack of real winters):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht

Eleven Cities Tour  It's epic... since i follow sport i really want see, damn global warming  

[heywoodu 16,465]

Just now, Gianlu33 said:

Eleven Cities Tour  It's epic... since i follow sport i really want see, damn global warming  

It was so close a few years ago. Oh well, I'm convinced one day it'll happen again, global warming doesn't mean literally every winter will be too warm  

 

Meanwhile Van der Weijden had breakfast today with a cold pizza  He was planning to sleep 1,5 hour earlier tonight (on one of those floating 'beds'), but kept waking up so he decided to get back to swimming

[phelps 8,728]

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR)

 

Day 1 Results

 

Women's 5km (14-15 years old Girls)

Gold: Iris Menchini

Silver: Mira Szimcsak

Bronze: Mariah Denigan

 

Men's 5km (14-15 years old Boys)

Gold: Aleksandr Stepanov

Silver: Ivan Morgun

Bronze: David Betlehem

 

Women's 7.5km (16-17 years old Girls)

Gold: Chase Travis

Silver: Giulia Berton

Bronze: Giulia Salin

 

Men's 7.5km (16-17 years old Boys)

Gold: Jean-Baptiste Clusman

Silver: Danil Nemolochnov

Bronze: Zoltan Tabi

[Olympian1010 8,301]

On 8/19/2018 at 15:05, heywoodu said:

2008 Olympic open water champion Maarten van der Weijden is swimming a bit over 200 kilometer these days to get money for cancer research (the illness he had before his gold medal). He started yesterday morning around 4am and is expected to finish somewhere late tomorrow

 

Live stream:

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He's following the 'Eleven Cities Tour' course, which is this wonderful, legendary speed skating race (which sadly hasn't been held in over 20 years already because of a lack of real winters):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht

I’ve been waiting to watch my first Eleven Cities Tour for years now. Stupid Climate Change 

[heywoodu 16,465]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’ve been waiting to watch my first Eleven Cities Tour for years now. Stupid Climate Change 

Unlike some other people, I'm still confident it'll happen again one day  

 

Sure, the chances are lower in individual years, but climate change doesn't mean there will never be a harsh winter anymore.

[Olympian1010 8,301]

34 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Unlike some other people, I'm still confident it'll happen again one day  

 

Sure, the chances are lower in individual years, but climate change doesn't mean there will never be a harsh winter anymore.

It is generally accepted to be the opposite 

[heywoodu 16,465]

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

It is generally accepted to be the opposite 

If climate change should make for more harsh winters, climate change is only hitting us in the summer...  

[phelps 8,728]

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR)

 

Day 2 Results

 

Women's 10km (18-19 years old Girls)

Gold: Paula Ruiz Bravo

Silver: Maria A. Bramont-Arias

Bronze: Reka Rohacs

 

Men's 10km (18-19 years old Boys)

Gold: Micheal Brinegar

Silver: Enzo Roldan Munoz

Bronze: Kirill Dolgov