Swimmer's Daily

Month: August 2011

  • Busted: Magnini caught kissing with Pellegrini

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    Ouch, read SwimNews.com and see the video below … Former world 100m freestyle champion Filippo Magnini is back in the news after being photographed flirting with Federica Pellegrini at world titles last month. No consequence for the Italian Olympic champion but for Magnini the moment has cost him the woman he might have married. Italian…

  • 70-year-old Roger Allsopp now oldest man to swim the English Channel

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    At 70 years and four months, retired breast surgeon Roger Allsopp completed the 21-mile challenge in 17 hours and 51 minutes, beating the previous Guinness World Record holder George Brunstad (uncle of Academy Award winner Matt Damon) who swam the Channel at 70 years and four days in 2004. All for charity. Read more here…

  • The Swim starts tonight

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    Exciting news, “The Swim” will start in 1.5 hours or so: The weather is with us.. We go tonight. @ronanofficial leads us out at 9pm from holyhead pier!! @JoinTheSwimless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Favorite Retweet ReplySteve Parrysteparry2

  • Shane Dorian working on an inflatable wetsuit

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    After a brush with death and nearly drowning two years ago, big wave surfer Shane Dorian began working on a wetsuit that could be instantly inflated, bringing the user back to the surface. Still only a prototype, it works by pulling a cord so that a CO2 cartridge will fill the bubble, with only drawbacks…

  • David Walliams to swim 140 miles of the Thames for charity

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    English comedian David Walliams will on 5th September start a 140 miles swim of the Thames from Lechdale in Glouchestershire to Big Ben in London, hoping to complete the effort in just eight days. His biggest swimming challenge by far, after having 21-mile English channel in 2006 and the 12-mile Strait of Gibraltar in 2008.…

  • 7 tips to avoid a shark attack

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    Always nice to know … Do not go in the water at dawn or dusk; everything is in the shark’s favor. Shark attacks around midday are very rare. Avoid large groups of seals or sea lions, or if you see these creatures on the beach or near the shoreline, beware. If you are bleeding, including…

  • Rip tides sweep a bunch of charity swimmers out to sea

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    A 3.8 km open water charity race on Sunday round Joss Bay in Kent could according to the BBC have ended as “a very serious problem”, when “up to 80 people” were swept out to sea and had to be rescued, some of them nearly two hours after the incident. Only a few swimmers managed…

  • Man killed in freak 2-car swimming pool accident

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    70-year-old Efrain N. Carrasquillo was working on a car last Thursday in the carport of a home in Orlando, when the car slipped into gear, pushing him and another vehicle parked directly behind him into the pool. The vehicle either sandwiched Carrasquillo or he was dragged, but other than that it was unclear exactly how…

  • You’re talking about the Olympics, right?

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    Check out Ryan Lochtes reaction when the swedish, (blonde?) female reporter asks him: “…and you are talking about the Olympics, is that right?”  (around 30-50 sec mark). But to be fair, Ryan wasn’t 100% clear in his statement :-)