Month: June 2013
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CC photo #521: Warm-up at Rijeka 2008
Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason discussing whatever during warm-up on the first day of the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia.
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Ye Shiwen fought off burnout and depression after drug slurs of London 2012
Read The Independent Last summer, on the opening day of London’s Games, Ye produced a landmark swim, obliterating a four-year-old world record with a performance that defied belief. There were plenty who did not believe her achievement and innuendo was already her companion as she stepped onto the podium to collect gold for the 400m…
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Swimmer swept over Yosemite waterfall
See CNN Park rangers will resume their search Monday for a teenage swimmer who was swept over a nearly 600-foot waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park over the weekend. Aleh Kalman had been swimming about 150 feet from the edge of the Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon when he was caught up in the swift…
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Australian swimmers call for calm after president Nettlefold’s resignation
Read ABC Grandstand Sport Australian Olympic swimmers have expressed hopes that the sport’s latest controversy will not affect sponsors or preparations for next month’s World Championships. […Â ] Olympic silver medallist Brenton Rickard said on Monday that the Australian squad needed to remain focussed on the championships, which will be held in Barcelona. “Obviously it could…
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CC photo #520: Hanna-Maria Seppälä at Rijeka 2008
Finland’s Hanna-Maria Seppälä at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. The event must have been either the women’s 100 freestyle final or the 100 IM semifinal. She set a new championships record of 59.62 in the 100 IM, and then again with a winning time of 59.24 the day after (which…
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Behind the scenes with underwater filmmaker ‘Diver Laura’
See West Seattle Blog You’ve seen the work of West Seattle’s award-winning “Diver Laura†James – a filmmaker, photographer, writer, environmental activist – here and elsewhere over the past few years. Now, we get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to get those views; much more complicated than simply jumping into the water with a camera. The…