Year: 2014
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School closing for JCPS causes confusion for some over swim meet
See WHAS11 Jefferson County Public Schools made the call early Friday morning, Feb. 14, to close because they were worried about deteriorating conditions in the evening commute. That decision came down just before a regional swim meet at the University of Louisville’s Natatorium, meaning a late scramble for parents who have come in from across…
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2014 cover revealed
See Swim Daily If the cover of SI Swimsuit is some of the hottest real estate a supermodel can inhabit, the 50th Anniversary Issue cover is the Tribeca triplex of American newsstands. And if the featured models Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Chrissy Teigen are to believed, they are delighted to occupy that space together. “We really, honestly liked each other,†said Chrissy earlier this…
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Rally Car Goes For A Swim
See Daily Picks And Flicks A dramatic crash video from the 2013 edition of Karkonosze Rally in Poland. Everyone was OK.
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Bronx Polar Bears brace for icy Valentine’s Day plunge into Long Island Sound
Read NY Daily News An 80% chance of snow and freezing 13-mile-per-hour winds won’t deter Bronx Polar Bears Saturday from plunging into Long Island Sound’s chilly depths for a Valentine’s swim. Dozens of swimmers are expected to eschew gloomy forecasts in order to don bathing suits for a dive just off Orchard Beach for the…
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Staying Gold: Olympic Champions Who Went on to Succeed in Other Careers
Read equities - Mark Spitz and Ryan Lochte featured, yay! Mark Spitz America’s best swimmer not named Michael Phelps, Spitz dominated the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, setting multiple world records on his way to winning eleven Olympic medals, nine of them gold. Spitz abruptly retired from the sport at age 22 to get into show business.…
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Ian Thorpe – how a mentor could show him the way out of depression’s darkest waters
Read BizNews The very nature of a world champion’s job increases the risk of imbalance, or an unbalanced perspective on life that leads to a state of “dis-easeâ€. Depression is just one symptom. Thorpe made one glaring mistake common to great sporting champions: he surrounded himself with coaches, but few or no mentors. Mentors are…
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Divers explore the caves under Weeki Wachee
See WTSP For more than 60-years tourists have been flocking to Weeki Wachee to see the park’s world famous mermaids. Yet, Weeki Wachee would never be if not for its first magnitude spring. At times, more than 200-cubic-feet of fresh water per second rushes up from deep underground. The mermaids call it their fountain of…
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Facing the abyss: Freedivers take on deadly depths in extreme sport
See CNN For most people plunging into the ocean’s cold, dark depths without an oxygen tank would be an alarming experience. But for Ahmad Tahilmet and his friends its one of life’s greatest pleasures. They are freedivers — one of the growing number of young Emiratis who pursue the extreme water sport that is growing…
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Giant Isopod “NO.1” died today, 1869 days after his last meal
See the notice from Toba Aquarium World famous giant isopod “NO.1” died today, five years and 43 days after having his last meal, a horse mackerel that he devoured on 2 January 2009. That is 18 days before President Obama began his first term. “No.1” has now been dissected and his stomach content checked, but…