Month: January 2014
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Move refreshes WA swim ace Tommaso D’Orsogna
Read The West Australian Back in Perth for this week’s State swimming titles and next weekend’s BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series, D’Orsogna still has his eyes firmly fixed on this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “The move to Queensland has been refreshing – it was the…
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Germany: Swimmers brave freezing waters for Europe’s biggest winter swim
“Thousands took part in Europe’s largest organised winter swim as part of annual Karneval celebrations in Bavaria on Saturday.”
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Crocodile took 12-year-old boy during swim in water hole
Read for instance BND A crocodile is suspected to have taken a 12-year-old boy after attacking his friend as they swam in a water hole on Sunday in a popular Outback tourist destination in northern Australia. Police believed the missing boy was taken by a crocodile as he and a number of other boys swam…
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Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett and Susie O’Neill asked to help the revival of Australian Swimming
Read couriermail.com.au Swimming Australia president John Bertrand said the sport needed to better capitalise on the experience and knowledge within its own ranks. Bertrand said Hackett and O’Neill were keen to get involved and he hoped to take five-time Olympic champion Thorpe up on his public offer last year to mentor the Australian team and…
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China Completes 300-meter Saturation Dive
Read CRI English On Saturday, six divers came out safely from a living chamber that had took them more than 300 meters underwater, marking the complete success of China’s first 300-meter saturation dive experiment. […] Saturation diving technology enables human beings to withstand high water pressure by saturating human tissue with inert gas, which will…
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Mie Ø. Nielsen clocks 28.43 and new Nordic record in the 50 back
Tonight at the Skagerrak Swim meet in Kristiansand, Norway, Denmark’s Mie Østergaard Nielsen broke her own 50 meter Danish and Nordic backstroke record (long course), with a scorching time of 28.43. The old record was her own 28.51, from when she won gold a the Antwerpen 2012 European Junior Championships. Post by Mie Østergaard Nielsen.
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Australia’s swim team culture no longer toxic, says Alicia Coutts
Read Canberra Times Alicia Coutts says the Australian swimming team’s much-maligned culture was “so much better” at last year’s world championships in Barcelona and she’s confident it will stand up to its next major test – the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July. The 26-year-old was one of the few shining lights from the…
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Dubai makes handrails mandatory for balconies and swimming pools in new buildings
Read Emirates 24/7 The Buildings Department of Dubai Municipality has issued new circular for all consulting and contracting companies in the emirate of Dubai making the protection rails for balconies and swimming pools mandatory in new buildings. […] “Safety of the people is the first priority of the civic body. We don’t want to hear…
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Grandview swimmers take the ‘Plunge’ for Special Olympics
See kshb.com More than 1,100 swimmers took to the freezing waters of Longview Lake on Friday all for a good cause. It’s part of the “Polar Plunge,†a 21-hour fundraising event for the Special Olympics. “It’s one of those things, as soon as you hit the water, its pins and needles,†described swimmer Mike Day.…