Month: December 2013
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GA swimming coach Dick Shoulberg takes leave of absence
Read Philly.com Germantown Academy’s revered swimming coach, Dick Shoulberg, is on leave because of “a personnel issue,” a school administrator said Monday. In an e-mail to parents last month, the school announced that assistant coach Claire Crippen would serve as acting director and acting head coach of the girls’ team in Shoulberg’s absence. Assistant coach…
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TV Midt Vest visits the Herning 2013 pool builders
See tvmidtvest.dk, via SwimNews.dk ‘In Herning they are preparing for the European Short Course Championships, which means that Boxen (‘the Box’) is being transformed into a pool’
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How two guys mapped all the pools in Los Angeles
Read Los Angeles Times “Using complex computer mapping, they counted 43,123 between the Hollywood Hills and San Pedro, from pools shaded by leaf-covered pergolas in Santa Monica to ones surrounded by chain-link fences in Alhambra. Along the way, they discovered something more than just the real-world versions of the iconic David Hockney pool utopias. Their…
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Behold these Siberian percussionists playing on a frozen lake
These are the IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT», playing on the frozen Lake Baikal.
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Lithuanians react to Meilutyte’s win at London 2012
A YouTube video published by the Lithuanian National Radio and Television on July 31, 2012, the day after Ruta Meilutyte won the women’s 100 meter breaststroke final at the London 2012 Olympics. Video apparently the emotions in the Lithuanian London 2012 studio. You don’t need to understand Lithuanian, to understand what they are saying :-)…
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“This Baby’s Going To Be An Olympic Champion”
Just you wait until she can climb up on the start block herself Video text hints that this is a girl named Arabel at the Aura Keskus waterpark in Tartu, Estonia. http://youtu.be/ie3ZSrggJ9A
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Becky’s SwimStars vision!
Take a look at the video to see Becky’s insight into the SwimStars programme and to see what some of our Syon Park SwimStars think of the programme! Becky’s SwimStars vision! from Total Swimming on Vimeo.
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Amazing video shows underwater rescue of Nigerian cook Harrison Okene
See for instance The Daily Caller, and the story from back in June A new video on LiveLeak.com shows the amazing underwater rescue of a Nigerian man stuck nearly three days in an air pocket 100 feet underneath the Atlantic Ocean. Harrison Okene was on a tugboat off the Nigerian coast last June when a heavy…
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This is Utah Swimming and Diving
“This is the new Utah swimming and diving, where we respect the traditions and legacy of the past, and embrace the training of the future.”