Year: 2011
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Sleep-swimming with the E-man
That video is gonna haunt him at his wedding ! :-) Emmett is Sleep Swimming Again from Ben Husmann on Vimeo.
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USA Swimming – Rome 2009
A trip back memory lane, courtesy of Bourbon Street Productions USA Swimming – Rome from Bourbon Street Productions on Vimeo.
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Federica Pellegrini ‘dumped’ by coach Bonifacenti
Warning, my Italian is really lousy (/non-existant), but according to Taiwan News, Federica Pellegrini has split from her coach Federico Bonifacenti, third coach since the death of her former trainer and mentor Alberto Castagnetti in October 2009, adding a quote from her website: “Unfortunately it is not easy to work with me”. Google Translate quotes…
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Man survives bushfire by going scuba-diving in a swimming pool
Now that is a twist on life saving that I didn’t expect: While others in the town of Margaret River, Western Australia fled their homes, Peter Fabrici got his wife to safety and then went back to fire-proof his home. Seeing houses in the distance going up in flames, he donned an oxygen tank and…
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Orcas kill Great White, eat its liver, no news on the nice Chianti
Off the coast of San Francisco, whale-watchers witnessed a stunning act of nature as a killer whale rose to the water’s surface with a great white in its mouth and held it there for 15 minutes, upside-down in a state of tonic immobility, until the shark suffocated. It and another whale then ate the liver…
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Strel Swimming Adventures expands to the US
Exciting news, Strel Swimming Adventures have opened a new tour at Lake Powell, Arizona, which looks just great. See www.strelswimming.com for other tours in Slovenia and Croatia as well. Gee, here is something for both me the swimmer and my brother the geologist.
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Kenrick Monk won’t face charges over invented hit-and-run incident
Olympic swimmer Kenrick Monk has escaped a possible three-year jail term after lying about being victim of a hit and run incident, but has frontline police officers furious, as for instance Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers: “Swimming Australia now being caught red-handed being complicit in orchestrating Mr Monk out of being charged by police…
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Otter learns to swim in bath tub
A 3-month-old otter is being taught how to swim and socialize with other animals after he was found alone on a building site in Wales. I just spent 3 hours unclogging our bathtub here at home, so this is very relevant to me :-P