Year: 2011
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Nyad stung in face by something, switches to “staged swim”
Diana Nyad was yesterday evening stung in the face by some kind of presumed jellyfish, and had to go out of the water for some hours to be treated by doctors. Her face and area the area around her eyes was affected, but she’s back in the water, swim switching to a “staged swim”, meaning…
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Kumari beat husband’s murder trap by knowing how to swim
25-year-old Ambika Kumari was allegedly pushed off a bridge by her husband, a relative and a friend, into the Ganga in Bihar, but managed to battle about 12 hours through the night against swirling waters, eventually being found unconscious on the river bank 60 km downstream. They had married one-and-a-half years ago, but he’d only…
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Diana Nyad hit a Man o’ War, but battles on
It has been a challenging night and for Diana Nyad, now some 57000 strokes and well into the next day of swimming from Cuba to USA, she hit a Portuguese Man o’ War, suffered from multiple stings and had to tread water for half an hour, rehydrate and change suit. Her stroke pace dropped from…
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Geoff Huegill admits drug use and suicidal thoughts while retired
“I remained trapped because I was so ineffective in my life outside the pool,” Huegill revealed in the book. “The usual cycles kicked in again, plenty of alcohol and party drugs. I was arriving home from clubbing at 4am, the hour I used to be getting up and training. I now had debt collectors to…
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Kids create Bellagio-style Water Show in Pool
Water gun powered, absolutely excellent ! :-) Via Buzzfeed.
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The gliding butterfly style of Ida Marko-Varga
Interesting video here about Swedish butterfly-ace Ida Marko-Varga’s one kick per cycle gliding butterfly style, that has seen her drop 9 seconds of her personal best since started working on it, and enabled her to swim a lot more butterfly in practice. She placed 16th at this year’s World Championships, gunning for a lane in…
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Diana Nyad has started her 3rd Cuba-USA attempt
Diana Nyad is back in the water as of 6:05:08 pm Havana time, going for the 200,000 strokes to Key West. See diananyad.com.
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Sun Yang rattles 400 free world record
Ouch, Sun Yang managed a 3:40.29 in the 400 meter free at the Chinese long course championships this evening, breaking Zhang Lin’s Asian record of 3:41.35 from the 2009 Rome super suit World Championships. This is the 3rd fastest 400 in history, only behind Paul Biedermann’s 3:40.07 from Rome 2009, and Ian Thorpe’s 3:40.08 from…