Year: 2014
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SwimmingWorld switching to WordPress
SwimmingWorld Magazine just announced that they will be switching to this site (at the moment in Beta), which is powered by WordPress like the one you are reading right now. So that would be two of my favorite sites switching to WordPress these past few days – The New Yorker (which had us mentioned back in…
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Behold a young Jason Statham competing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
You might know him from such films as Snatch, The Italian Job and The Expendables, but back in the day, Jason Statham was a member of Britain’s National Diving Squad for twelve years. Here below competing for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, and being treated rather harshly (but maybe fairly, what do I know) by the…
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The Russian Swing
Gavin Peacock dives, flips, and completes an epic catch while being launched from a lakeside Russian Swing in Toronto, Canada.
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Swimmer’s dream fulfilled with help from jelly babies
A medical student who swam 21 miles across the Channel has told how jelly babies and a determination to raise money for charity got her through the gruelling challenge. Marisa Schubert spent 14 hours and 40 minutes making her way through the busy shipping lane between England and France. The 21-year-old, of Headington, managed to…
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Glasgow 2014: Wales swimmers make YouTube film splash
Team Wales swimmer Jemma Lowe has taken the plunge into the world of video production ahead of the Commonwealth Games. The bronze medallist in Delhi filmed her teammates training in and out of the pool for Glasgow 2014. She set the results to a 1990s dance club hit – aping a similar effort to an…
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Darian Townsend becomes U.S. citizen
When Darian Townsend first came to the United States a decade ago, it was primarily to further his international swimming career. Townsend still is an elite swimmer but when he became an American citizen at a naturalization ceremony Thursday in Phoenix, the reasons transcended his sport. “I didn’t do this for athletics,” the three-time South…
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Goliath Grouper Attacks Spearfisher
Man has exploited the ocean and its creatures for as long as mankind has existed. Now the sea creatures are fighting back. Arif Sabir were spearfishing with friends off the coast of Jupiter, Florida, when they encountered a large Goliath grouper. The men get a short laugh in just before the grouper takes a bite…
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World’s Largest Flying Water Insect Can Cover an Adult Human Face (And Hates Pollution)
The largest flying aquatic insect on record was discovered in China’s Sichuan province. The specimen was delivered to the Insect Museum of West China and determined to be a larger version of the dobsonfly. The creature has a wingspan of 8.27 inches (21 cm). With its wings fully extended, this giant dobsonfly can completely cover an adult…
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Australia clocks 3:30.98 and new World Record in the Women’s 4×100 Free at Glasgow 2014
At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this evening, Australia’s women’s 4×100 meter freestyle relay set a new world record, clocking 3:30.98 where the Netherlands’ world record from the (supersuited) Rome 2009 World Championships was 3:31.72. Comparative splits Australia 2014 Bronte Campbell: 53.15 Melanie Schlanger: 52.76 Emma McKeon: 52.91 Cate Campbell: 52.16 The Netherlands 2009 Inge Dekker:…