Year: 2011
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Belgrade 2011 will be streamed LIVE
UPDATE: Belgrade 2011 LIVE feed is here on belgrade2011.rs, completely free and working! The links below might not work, though. Poltiming LTD announces today that they will be transmitting live from the European Junior Swimming and Diving Championships in Belgrade this summer, on www.poltiming-live.pl and www.facebook.com/streamit.live. They were also in charge of the live transmission…
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DISC has great live streaming (Mare Nostrum has not)
Eagerly waiting for the Mare Nostrum 2011 to begin, I read in other news that the Vattenfall Swim Cup 2011 has started, aka the Danish International Swim Cup, with livetiming from both pools and HD live streaming from finals. Finals that are by the way very nicely dressed-up, with light-show and loud music and everything.
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Save yourself from Great Whites with AC/DC
Australian divers have found that Great White Sharks are much less aggressive when listening to AC/DC – particularly ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’. Only problem being in my view, that they at the same time become ‘investigative’, up to the point where they rub their face on the sound source (note to self: have…
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GB Swimming Team in Cyprus
GBR Swimming Team in Cyprus – athletes attend a 10 day warm weather training camp ahead of the World Championships in Shanghai, 2nd May – 11th May 2011
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Hand-feeding a Great White Shark
Awww, see how cutely it nips at the steel platform. Via neatorama.com.
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Big meet in Barcelona this weekend !
The Mare Nostrum circuit starts in Barcelona this weekend, and our guy Pál Joensen will be there, along with 4 juniors from our Faroese squad. The start list promises a lot of world-class racing, as swim stars from around the world prepare for Shanghai 2011.
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Leonard Lopate interviews Diana Nyad
Legendary swimmer Diana Nyad talks about her sport and her plans, at the age of 61, to swim from Havana to the Florida coast without a shark tank this summer.
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Canals are a dangerous place to swim
Teens urged to swim where a lifeguard is present, stay clear of the hydros in the canal walls and keep away from high voltage wires [Heck, maybe even to switch their brains on again?]. “We don’t have a problem with them swimming, it’s the danger.” Canals are a dangerous place to swim: wwlp.com