Month: October 2011
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“Think, Don’t Swim” campaign film premieres in York
A hard-hitting film aimed at driving home the message of The Press‘s Think, Don’t Swim campaign is being premiered today at York’s City Screen cinema in Yorkshire, England. Bartender Richard Horrocks, 21, drowned in the Ouse after jumping into the water from a balcony close to the riverside cinema in July. He was the third…
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How to photograph a fist smashing through water
High-speed photography tutorial with splashes and flashes, courtesy of Photo EXTREMIST, via Peta Pixel. “Just remember that it is the flashes that are freezing the motion, not the camera.”
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Liquid nitrogen into a swimming pool
Sweet, wish they had a human guinea pig to throw into it. Oh wait. Liquid Nitrogen Into A Swimming Pool from physicisttv on Vimeo. Physicisttv.com via GoSwim on Twitter.
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Magnussen skips World Cup to keep rivals guessing
World 100-meter freestyle champion James Magnussen launched his Olympic campaign with a victory in the men’s 15-years-and-over race at a humble meet in Sydney yesterday, and revealed that he’s skipping the World Cup meets because he wants to keep his rivals guessing. Read Port Lincoln Times. ”The best thing for me at the moment is…
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Hackett denies that his apartment was trashed
According to Grant Hackett himself, he was sorting out “private issues” with his wife when police swarmed his apartment at the weekend, according to the first sources ‘to find it in disarray’. Read The Telegraph via Gold Medal Mel “We came home and had a few private issues that we needed to deal with and…
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Video proof: Evolta did swim the official Ironman route
Exciting stuff in American/Japanese, still think it would have gotten into problems if there was a decent current against it. Was that a whale jumping at the turn buoy? The robots completed the full Ironman challenge 2011 in only 166 hours 57 minutes, with the 2.4-miles (3.86 km) swim taking a little over 5 hours.
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Eric Shanteau’s Swim For Your Life
On October 8 at Lake Lanier Islands resort just outside of Atlanta, Ga., Eric Shanteau held his second Swim For Your Life event, benefiting Lance Armstrong’s cancer charity LIVESTRONG. Participants including Shantau himself, Aaron Peirsol, Katie Hoff, Kathleen Hersey, Mark Gangloff, Amanda Wier and Tyler McGill could choose between a 500 yard, one mile og…
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Police investigating incident at Grant Hackett’s home
According to the Herald Sun, up to 8 police cars were called to the apartment of Olympic legend Grant Hackett in the early hours of Sunday morning, to find the apartment in total disarray, including a grand piano overturned. Read more here on the Herald Sun.
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Whyte won’t let whip from wave wipe her out
Confession, this story got through here mostly because of the title. Happy that this is not a podcast, right now. Via WinonaDailyNews.com: As the boat busted through the lake water, the second wave turned out to be a doozy. So much so, it would change the next three months of Morgan Whyte’s life. “We hit…