Month: November 2011
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Ryan Cochrane is Canada’s aquatic athlete of the year
Swimmer Ryan Cochrane and diver Jennifer Abel have earned male and female athlete of the year awards from the Aquatic Federation of Canada. Cochrane captures silver medals in the 800 and 1500 meter freestyle events at the world aquatic championships in Shanghai, and is ranked No. 2 in the world in both events. Via cbcsports
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Girl on surfboard has close encounter with a feeding whale
Yeah yeah, ‘almost swallowed’, don’t believe that bit, since whales have really fine-tuned echolocation systems. If that humpback wanted to swallow her, it would :-) Via Geekologie
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Forerunner® 910XT: Swim metrics (video)
This is so sweet, and I’m sure gonna upgrade my 4½-year-old Forerunner® 305 runner’s watch with this one, when I get a chance. Via the17thman Don’t know how yet how good it is at counting the strokes and yardage, but here is someone reviewing the competing FINIS Swimsense Performance Monitor.
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Rebecca Soni visits Wales with Team USA: Britain Bound
Team USA: Britain Bound sent Olympic swimmer Rebecca Soni to Wales Friday, and she soaked up the capital city, Cardiff, from sun up to sun down. Read more here on USA Swimming. (video moved below the break because it autoplays)
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The Steroid-Dealing, Ecstasy-Smuggling, Dead-Body-Burning Swim Coach
… that parents still want to coach their children. Wild story! I was told to tread carefully. I was told that the man in the headline above could be litigious, and that he had deep pockets. There’s also the matter of him burning and burying a dead body on his own property… During the trial…
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Michael Phelps used to be scared to put his head in the water
There you go, anything is possible: “I started swimming at seven. The first couple of years I was afraid of putting my face in the water. I just wasn’t comfortable. Eventually I just put it in and off I went.” Via 2012olympicsblog.co.uk
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USA announces its 2011 Duel in the Pool roster
USA Swimming is lining up a lot of its very best swimmers, to compete against an European All-Star team at the 2011 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool on December 16-17. For instance Amanda Beard, Natalie Coughlin, Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer and Kate Ziegler, and Tyler Clary, Mark Gangloff, Brendan Hansen, Ryan…
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Penny Palfrey takes on the Cuba to Florida challenge
If I’m not mistaken, we have a race on our hands, with Diana Nyad continuing to chase her ‘Xtreme dream’ to swim from Cuba to Florida, and now also Penny Palfrey planning to swim from Cuba to Florida in June 2012. Palfrey has the world record for the longest solo unassisted ocean swim without a…
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Cadbury Dairy Milk presents Simply the Best
Featuring Rebecca Adlington, an opera singing Royal Guard, a sausage seller and others, almost all of them underwater. Mmm, Cadbury, via shootonline.com.