Year: 2012
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CC photo #100: Jón Brian working under the bleachers in Belgrade
Faroese reporter Jón Brian Hvidtfeldt hard at work under the Belgrade 2008 European Junior Swimming Championships bleachers. He was trying to edit a radio report or whatever, there was wifi out at the Tašmajdan pool, but also blazing sun :-)
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Swim. – Short film trailer released, support them on Indiegogo
A first peek at Swim. – a short film shot in British Columbia. They are raising funds here on Indiegogo, for $5 you’ll get an official ‘thank you’ on their Facebook page, for $10 your name in the credits of their film, and for $25 a personalized ‘thank you’ postcard. I claimed my perk! :-)
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Boat Race protest swimmer raises Olympic concerns
‘It just takes one idiot,’ says British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan after 35-year-old (Australian) Trenton Oldfield swam into paths of the boats in the 158th London Boat Race yesterday, forcing it to be temporarily halted. Read The Guardian and The Telegraph “It just takes, and is likely to be, one idiot,” he told BBC…
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Japan Swim: Barren last day, 27 selected for Olympics
As written here on SwimNews, the last day of national Japanese championships was a barren one as far at London 2012 qualification was concerned, closes call Takuro Fujii in the men’s 100 butterfly, 51.91 and second-fastest time in the world this year, far surpassing the FINA A cut of 52.36, but still almost a tenth…
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The Swiss Physilog III swimsuit has built in gyroscopes and accelerometers
The EPFL LMAM‘s Physilog III has been mentioned here before, but now we have video of this inertial sensor system equipped with accelerometers and gyroscopes, sewn into a swimming suit that reminds us of the fiery red Jaked suits from days gone past. Read more here on Discovery.
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Filippo Magnini and Federica Pellegrini pose naked in Vanity Fair
The two swimming champions for the first time naked together in Vanity Fair. Him: ‘The woman of my life’. Her: ‘If he asked me to marry me right now, I would say yes’. See slideshow here on vanityfair.it (if you can handle it)
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Japan Swim: Irie impresses (again) in the 200 back
At the Japan Swim today, Ryosuke Irie clocked a sizzling 1:54.03 in the men’s 200 backstroke, behind only his own 1:54.02 in the world this year, with the rest of the world somewhere above 1:56. He and Kazuki Watanabe qualified for the London Olympics, Watanabe in 1:56.83. Satomi Suzuki posted a second-best time in the…
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CC photo #99: A bottle of pool water from Istanbul 2009
Part of the gift bag for swimmers and the rest of us at the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Championships was a decanter for each of us filled with pool water. Label says “The pool water of 13th European Short Course Swimming Championship 10-13 December 2009”.
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The 158th annual London boat race interrupted by swimmer
The annual race between Cambridge University and Oxford was interrupted at the midway point today when a man in wetsuit moved between the boats and was almost hit by one of the Oxford oar blades, Oxford then slightly ahead. After a delay of about 30 minutes, the race was restarted near the midway point, Oxford…