Year: 2012
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Anderson Cooper tests if cats can swim
Fluffy cat Nimbus forced to swim a full length in the Anderson pool. That’s it … I’m calling the police ! :-) video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Via NewNowNext
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“Ryk and I used drugs,” says ex-girlfriend Amanda Beard
South Africa’s Ryk Neethling today dismissed claims by his ex-girlfriend, American Amanda Beard, that they abused drugs during the time they were together, a relationship that began in 1999 and lasted until they both won Olympic gold at the Athens 2004 Summer Games. Read The Star
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CC photo #103: Seppälä winner of the Rijeka 2008 women’s 100 IM
Finland’s Hanna-Maria Seppälä happy with her 59.24 women’s 100 meter individual medley win at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. It was a new European Championship record, and it was her birthday.
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Swim Cup Eindhoven 2012 starts tomorrow
The annual Swim Cup Eindhoven will be held in the Pieter van den Hoogenband swim stadium from tomorrow April 12th until Sunday April 15th 2012, featuring world class swimmers from the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Slovenia and Brazil, the likes of Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Sarah Sjöström, David Carry, Peter MankoÄ and Bruno Fratus. See startlist here from…
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Hugues Duboscq and coach Paparradopoulos part ways
According to SwimNews, French breaststroke Olympic medallist Hugues Duboscq has finaly parted company with mentor and coach of 15 years, Christos Paparradoupolos, after dissapointing results at the French Olympic trials in Dunkirk last month. Duboscq telling L’Equiope: “I hardly saw Christos in Dunkirk … after the races, he disappeared. Just like last year in Shanghai,…
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Aww, baby hippo learns to swim
Baby pygmy hippopotomus Monifa takes her first swim, watched by her Taronga Park Zoo Keeper in Sydney, Australia. “She’s really good, she’s an amazing swimmer, we’re very proud”, via neatorama
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More and more Danes turn to football, swimming and gymnastics
This report released today by the Danish Sports Confederation (DIF) reveals growing membership numbers in Danish football (soccer), swimming and gymnastics, while sports like handball, badminton and tennis see pretty much equivalent declines. The 10 biggest sports in Denmark in 2011 Football 356,754 (+13,799) Golf 157,496 (-588) Swimming 146,103 (+9,515) Gymnastics 129,876 (+5,086) Handball 113,323…
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Dad dies saving son in rough sea
27-year-old Paul Sleeman and 60-year-old Peter Sleeman had been fishing at a beach in Cornwall, Britain when large wave swept Paul off the rocks and into the rough see, his dad trying to save him with a lifebelt before being dragged also into the surf by another huge wave. They were both in the lifebuoy…
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No cash incentives for Great Britain’s Olympic medallists
Great Britain is the only major London 2012 medal contender not to be offering any financial bonus to athletes who win gold medals at this summer’s Olympic Games, the athletes instead having to cash in on their triumph after the Games, at a time when post-Olympic corporate interest may wane, or be diluted by the…