Year: 2012
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Women’s 200 yard backstroke final at the 1963 US Nationals
Hall of Famer and Olympic gold medalist Ginny Duenkel wins the 200 yard backstroke at the 1963 US Nationals, according to the commentator featuring ‘flashy, somersault turns’.
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Speedo Pace Club Poolside Chats – Kate Ziegler
Get to know some of USA Swimmings best and brightest athletes, here long-distance swimmer and current world record holder in the 1500-meter freestyle (long course), Kate Ziegler.
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Putin admins sport events help Russia develop country’s infrastructure
Russia’s Prime Minister and President-elect Vladmir Putin admitted yesterday that Russia bids for so many top sports events because it helps develop the infrastructure of the country. Besides the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, other major events they are also staging include the World Athletics Championships and…
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Eindhoven Swim Cup: Inge Dekker qualifies for the Olympics in the prelims
At the Eindhoven Swim Cup this morning, Inge Dekker clocked the quickest time in the women’s 100 butterfly prelims, 58.22 under the Dutch Olympic cut of 58.32, and easily under the FINA A cut of 58.70 also. Sarah Sjöström followed in 58.36, top-ranked swimmer in the world this year with a 56.79 from the British…
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Waves, a kinetic sculpture that generates waveforms
Daniel Palacios creates this interactive sculpture back in 2006, that generates waveforms with a spinning elastic rope whenever it detects nearby movement. Looks a bit dangerous. The Creators Project via Laughing Squid
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When those four in the relay is all you’ve got
So two of our age group swimmers are doing well at the Icelandic Long Course Championships these days, Óli Mortensen twice posting a Faroese 400 freestyle junior record (now 4:06.74) and a 16:18.15 Faroese 1500 freestyle junior record in the shadow of Pál Joensen, and Markus Joensen managing a 2:37.87 Faroese senior and junior record…
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South African Nationals 16 – 22 April 2012
The Kings Park swimming pool in Durban will host the week-long South African National Swimming Championships, starting on Monday, which doubles as the final chance for South Africans to swim inside the strict FINA A qualifying times. 12 swimmers have so far achieved the necessary standards, but need to do it again this week, according…
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Aww, Dumas swims with his full-grown pet polar bear
60-year-old Canadian Mark Dumas has raised the polar bear, Dawn, since she was six weeks old. He clearly shares a loving relationship with the animal, swimming with it and kissing it an everything. That is until the predator instinct kicks in, of course :-S Read Time
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Suicidal man jumps off bridge, hits swimmer below, kills him and survives
Crazy, crazy story from the Philippines today, a 30-year-old man jumped off the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge Wednesday night, landing on a swimmer below who was killed by the impact. While the man himself, who had suffered a nervous breakdown, beat the odds by surviving the 25-meter drop with a black eye and some bruises. Read…