Year: 2012
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Coughlin: Olympics way scarier than “Dancing With The Stars”
Natalie Coughlin has gone through it twice, escaping with eleven medals from two Olympics. So it must be easy for her by now? “Trust me, the Olympics are terrifying,” Coughlin said after swimming in the Santa Clara Grand Prix on Sunday. “In a good way, but terrifying. There’s nothing like walking onto the deck at…
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Keri-Anne Payne almost quit the sport in 2006
Keri-Anne Payne almost stepped away from swimming after missing out on a medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games but her mum Pat admits it’s a relief she stuck at it with an Olympic gold on home soil her potential reward. Read The Sport Review
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Newham timelapse of the London 2012 Olympic Park
Behold Newham, the youngest borough in London, featuring the largest urban shopping centre in Europe, and oh yes, everything Olympic this summer! :-)
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D’Arcy and Monk apologize for their gun photos
Olympic swimmer Nick D’Arcy has apologized after posting a photograph of himself and team mate Kenrick Monk posing with guns on Facebook. According to SwimNews, the Australian Olympic Committee will punish them by sending them home as soon as the swimming program ends mid-way through the Games, and they will be banned from using social…
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Raising kids in the Faroese cliffs
The traditional way, but gee, many safety issues here, me thinks.
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Molchanova and son set freedive world records on the same day
This Wednesday June 6, Natalia Molchanova and her son, Alexey Molchanov, both completed successful world record dives, Natalia to 127 meters for the women’s ‘variable weight’ record in a time of 3:38 while Alexey secured the men’s ‘constant weight’ record at 125 meters, in 3:52. These records will be official once the doping test results…
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Trubridge dives to 125m but fails surface protocol
New Zealand’s William Trubridge Wednesday managed a 125 meter (410 feet) ‘constant weight’ freedive, but then failed the official surface protocol that state that within 15 seconds the freediver must give an “OK” hand sign, a verbal “I am OK” and remove their goggles and nose clip within 15 seconds. Meaning it won’t count as…
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Company excursion yesterday
Sorry for not posting anything yesterday, was out on a boat trip before trying to juggle a company dinner with our swimming federation congress and my younger daughter performing music. Weather was nice, which is when these islands beat everything :-)