Month: May 2013
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Meridian swim club deals with water problems
See wtok.com Dirty water is being blamed for causing a murky mess at a Meridian swim club. The owner of what use to be Briarwood Country Club, estimates that between three and four inches of mud poured into the 10 foot deep pool there when workers attempted to fill it. Although this is a concern,…
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Ryan Lochte Talks Settling Down And Being A ‘Man In The Morning’
See The Huffington Post Not sure if you’ve heard, but Ryan Lochte wants to be the next Kim Kardashian. It’s not clear that his dream has come true — yet — but with the premiere of his reality TV show “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” in April, he’s certainly working on it. In another step towards the realization…
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Fife coach Dougall collapses with perforated bowel, denied ambulance 5 times
Three weeks ago, former Scottish international swimmer and now head coach of the Fife Performance Swimming Squad John Dougall experienced acute stomach pain, and called 999 for an ambulance on the verge of collapse. Read for instance Fife Today, The Scottish Sun, The Courier and the Daily Record “They asked me the usual questions and…
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Steffen Deibler videoblogging from a hammock in Hamburg
Germany’s Steffen Deibler enjoying the sun in Hamburg, en route to a two-week training camp with hopefully even better weather in Sardinia. Laying the foundation for Barcelona 2013, and promising to try to post from Sardinia also. Yay! He broke the German 100 butterfly record with a 51.19 at the 2013 German National Championships recently,…
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College students capture underwater ‘monster’ on camera in Ireland
See for instance Discovery and Live Science Three college students were filming a short movie as a class project at Lough Foyle, a large tidal estuary in County Donegal, Ireland, when something very odd moved through the water in front of them “Looks like we have our own Loch Ness monster!” Conall Melarkey, a student…
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Night Diving with Manta Rays
“Manta rays are one of nature’s most graceful and eerie animals. In Episode 2 of UnderH2O, we go underwater off the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii — in the dark of night — to film these enormous creatures.” – Not sure, but I think that sound is added ;-)
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Fraser-Holmes caps rollercoaster week with a Commonwealth record
Read for instance ninemsn.com.au In a rollercoaster week that began with a 400m flop, Fraser-Holmes is now primed to make a splash in the four-lap IM at July’s world titles in Barcelona after posting the year’s second fastest time on Friday night. […] Just like Thorpe in the 2004 Olympic trials in the same event,…
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Australian swimming’s rehabilitation will be a long haul
Read Herald Sun With the sport humiliated and chastened in the wake of London, rehabilitation is a long, incremental and necessary haul that will need every kilometre of the road to Rio. Often considered curious, swimming’s prominence was grounded in its capacity to showcase the vibrant best of Australian youth. Central to its hold was…