Month: April 2013
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CC photo #469: Forest of flags at Shanghai 2011
Very impressive, also because of the strong wind that day at the FINA 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China.
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CC photo #468: Father and son at the 2011 Stockholm World Cup
Just a photo from the FINA 2011 World Cup leg in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Paul Biedermann to miss Barcelona 2013 due to illness
Read SwimNews Announcing his withdrawal from the German world-title trials and championships at the end of this month, the 26-year-old revealed that he suffered a viral infection that kept him from intense training for the past two months. “Unfortunately, an infection has allowed no optimum training during the last two months,” he said in a…
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Touch the Wall excerpt: Missy Picks up the Trash
“This scene was described in the NYTimes article “Catching a Champion Swimmer on Film” by Karen Crouse goo.gl/P2P72 At the end of a long day shooting The 2012 Colorado High School State Championships in Fort Collins, Colorado, I was putting away gear in a small room off the pool deck when my partner Grant came came…
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RAF Swimming Championships Poster Step-by-Step
Yup, the RAF, the Royal Air Force. Awesome poster! RAF Swimmer Step-by-Step from Matt Stevenson on Vimeo.
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Ottesen Gray aims for Rio, but not necessarily medals
After having been undecided since the Olympics, Jeanette Ottesen Gray yesterday announced her determination to soldier on until Rio 2016, while trying to take it easy and enjoy her swimming also. Shannon Rollason is apparently already a success as National Training Center head coach in Copenhagen, as Jeanette here on dr.dk gives him the credit…
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Zhang Lin emerges from depths of despair
Read China Daily The first major signs that Zhang’s career was on a downward path emerged at last year’s national trials, where the Beijing Olympic silver medalist in the 400 free failed to earn a ticket to London after finishing the 200m and 400m free events far off the qualifying standards. “It felt like the…
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Snap – Motion To Light Wakeboarding
“The boundaries dividing sport and art are blurred in this collaboration between Red Bull and Snap! Orlando. Mike Dowdy, Adam Errington, and Dallas Friday strap lights to their wakeboards and join with light painter, Patrick Rochon, in an effort to capture the inherent emotion and creativity of athleticism.”
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Shark scares the crap out of fishing kayaker
So there he was, peacefully fishing from his kayak, when a shark took the bait. NSFW language is understandable.