Year: 2012
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Freediving adventures in Iceland
Freedive UK took a small group of freedivers to experience some truly diving in Iceland, the land of fire and ice. Things that didn’t make the video: Eating rotten shark, naked cliff jumping, eating Harðfiskur and Skyr, bathing in 44C thermal spas, …
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Cielo smashes the 50 butterfly world record
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio, Brazil’s Cesar Cielo demolished Roland Schoman’s world textile record of 22.86 from 2005, Cielo managing a Brazilian and South American record of 22.76 ahead of Nicholas Dos Santos in 22.79, Dos Santos owning the now former record of 22.87. They say that there was quite a bit of…
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CC photo #119: Warm-up at Køge Open 2007
Just a photo from the 2007 Køge Open meet in Denmark, sort of the ‘B-meet’ of the Danish Short Course Championships, held at the same time for those swimmers who didn’t qualify for the championships, plus a few foreigners like us the Faroese and some Swedes. Camera my old trusty Nokia N93, why was it…
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Ottesen smashes the 50 butterfly world textile record
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio yesterday, Jeanette Ottesen demolished the Danish record in the women’s 50 butterfly, with a 25.29 beating her own record of 25.69 from the 2010 Europeans in Budapest. It is a 3rd best time in the world ever, and the fastest ever in textile, Therese Alshammar owning the now…
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MIT create anti-fogging, glare-free, self-cleaning glass
Researchers at MIT have developed a new surface texture that, when applied to glass, produces a kind of glass that removes reflections, is free of glare, doesn’t fog, and has a surface that causes water droplets to bounce off like rubber balls, drawing whatever dirt on the surface with them. So I’m thinking goggles, goggles,…
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Nick Brunelli chasing Olympic dream for the third time
Nick Brunelli has spent the last eight years pursuing his Olympic dream, missing out by just one spot at both the 2004 and 2008 US Olympic trials. Read WCNC.
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2 NEWS talks with Janet Evans and Ricky Berens
With less than 100 days until the 2012 London Olympic games, 2 News Today spoke with two members of the U.S. swim team, Janet Evans and Ricky Berens. Via wdtn 2 NEWS talks with olympic swimmers: wdtn.com
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Canadians aim to Own the Podium
In this The Morning Swim Show, Jeff Commings and Tiffany Elias highlight six swimmers who could be on the podium in London, and national coach Pierre Lafontaine discusses Own the Podium, a government program designed to help athletes be the best they can be as they prepare for Olympic glory. “If there is any sure…
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London Olympics won’t allow sharing of photos, video or sound via social networks
Sort of mentioned here before, the London 2012 conditions for ticket holders are pretty extensive, including ban on entering the venues with food, beverages, animals, large photographic equipment, flags of countries not participating in the Olympics (there goes Merkið), musical instruments, objects bearing trademarks, large quantities of coins, lighters, refrigerators etc. Photo site PetaPixel has…