Month: February 2012
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CC photo #50: Czech supporters at Rijeka 2008
Fancy headwear at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course championships.
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Who elbowed Alicia Coutts in the Shanghai 2011 call room?
Wild story here on SwimNews.com (source Courier Mail), on how Australia’s Alicia Coutts was elbowed in the head and spat at by a European opponent on the way to her blocks for the 100m freestyle final at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. “I’d never had anyone try to psych me out before. It must be…
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Was Watson trying to drown or save his honeymoon bride?
Gabe Watson is charged with first-degree murder, prosecutors saying he drowned his wife on their honeymoon to collect a life insurance payout, and defense maintaining that Tina, in her first open water dive, panicked and died accidentally. He served 18 months in Australia for manslaughter. Read The Huffington Post.
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Seth Casteel’s amazing photos of diving dogs
California-based photographer Seth Casteel devised a series of ball games to get dogs playing in the pool, like holding a ball under water and releasing it in his “bobbing for apples strategy”, to get them to dunk their faces it trying to get the ball. “The timing of this is the most challenging part,” he…
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Two swim coaches killed in tragic plane crash
Swim coaches Rob Marshall Hill and Seth Dawson have been identified as casualties of a single-engine plane crash Wednesday on Little Si near North Bend, Washington, according to for instance The Seattle Times. Both were swim coaches at Decatur High School and the Valley Aquatics Swim Team in South King County, Washington, 30-year-old Hill also…
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Shy penguin too scared to swim
Despite being a natural-born swimmer, one small penguin at an animal park in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is too timid to dive into the water. Penguins do know how to swim, but they have to learn how to climb up ashore, and can have problem with controlling their direction and speed while swimming. To help…
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Ryan Lochte – The Next, Hot Olympian Swimmer
Or as they say here on TMZ: “U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s won 6 medals — and even beat Michael Phelps — but that still doesn’t get him a pass for pretending to be the biggest d-bag in the pool. He is pretending … right?” video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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Bodysurfing the Boom Boom Room 2012
“7-time Olympic gold medalist, Aaron Peirsol, reappers from the mist in this surf video.” Quote Gold Medal Mel on Facebook