Month: February 2012
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Canadian swimmers win 8 of first 10 races at U.S. 2012 Missouri Grand Prix
Oh Canada, gold, silver, bronze, 6th and 7th in the women’s 200 free, gold, bronze, 4th and 6th in the men’s 200 free, gold, silver, bronze, 4th and 6th in the women’s 100 breaststroke, (no A final spot in the men’s 100 breaststroke), gold and 4th in the women’s 100 butterfly, 7th in the men’s…
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Tom Daley lip sync video goes viral, proves the world is cruel
There are so many good swimming and diving videos online, some even featuring Tom Daley, but this thing, this thing scores 220,000+ hits in only a couple of days ! :-D (Thanks for the heads-up, Ivan)
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Speedo Fastskin FS II did not reduce drag, say scientists (now)
Researching how toothlike scales on sharks reduce drag by generating vortexes on the front edge of the skin, eddies that essentially would suck the shark forward, Harvard University bioroboticist George Lauder and graduate student Johannes Oeffner at Lauder Lab also looked at shark-skin mimics like the Speedo Fastskin II fabric and silicon rubber “riblets” used…
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UMD Swimming gets more lenient fundraising deadline, might just make it
Maryland athletic department officials have reached a compromise with the swimming and diving teams, giving them more time to raise the $11.57 million or 8 years of operating cost that the university requires in order to spare their program. Now the demand is a series of benchmarks toward the goal, starting with having to raise…
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Swimming South Africa in money trouble
Who isn’t, you might say, but according to the Sowetan, South African swimming is so cash-strapped that some staff members have already started looking for jobs after being told about the federation’s dire need for funding. Service providers have not been paid for three months, but the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Com.ittee has…
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Trickett posts fastest post-retirement 100 free, feels less like a fraud
Libby Trickett managed a time of 54.87 seconds in the heats of the 100 meter freestyle at the New South Wales Championships today, almost a second better than her previous post-retirement best. Via Reuters. “It was quite bizarre really, I really didn’t expect that time,” the 27-year-old told reporters. “Almost 12 months ago I was…
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CC photo #42: Italy’s record setting Rijeka 2008 relay
Italy’s Alessandro Terrin (breaststroke), Mirco di Tora (backstroke), Marco Belotti (butterfly) and Filippo Magnini (freestyle) posing for a photo after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships record setting 4×50 medley time of 1:32.91.
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Wahooo headbands monitor how long swimmers are submerged
The Wahooo® Swim Monitor System is a drowning detection system invented for dark water facilities (but undoubtedly usable also in clearer water), that monitors how long submerged swimmers are under water, and then alerts the lifeguard if the situation gets dangerous. First, when a swimmer is submerged for a preset period of time (considered by…
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Tom Daley & Team GB lip sync ‘Sexy and I know it’
As Tom Willdridge puts it on the Speed Endurance Swimming Blog: “While swimmers are busy training hard, the divers are dancing about on a beach. Typical.”