Month: April 2008
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Liam Tancock Sets 50 Back World Record
Liam Tancock set a new 50 meters long course backstroke world record this evening, during evening preliminaries of the 200 backstroke at the British Championships in Sheffield. The new record is 24.47, obliterating the former record time of 24.80, that Thomas Rupprath swam in 2003. Source: Lane 9 News
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Be Careful With Your Flip Turns Here
The Devil’s Pool is a natural (swimable) pool right at the edge of the Victoria Falls in Zambia. Not that you would ever catch me in that death trap.
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Miami Swimming Video
I truly like that motivational speak, That last 25 when you’re hurting… say I’m a Hurricane, I’m getting to that wall first!
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Beautiful Shots From Eindhoven
Just take a look at these underwater shots from the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, and read here on Reuters about how he did it.
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No Jaws Soundtrack At The World Championships
Darn, turns out that it was just an April Fools joke. Photo courtesy of bellamy.andrews
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Italy Bans The LZR Racer From Its Olympic Trials
The Italian Swimming Federation FIN has decided to ban the new Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit from their forthcoming Olympic trials, based on FINA rule 5.6: “The manufacturers must ensure that the approved new swimsuit will be available for all competitors”.
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Web Site Launched
I promised myself that this web site would be launched on April 1st, so there you go. First post, and let me then get back to configuring the rest of the basic stuff.