Year: 2014
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Mireia Belmonte smashes 1500m short-course record
Short-course 1500m world champion Spain’s Mireia Belmonte broke the discipline world record by almost three seconds at her national swimming championships on Friday. The new mark of 15 minutes 19.71 seconds, set during the Spanish short-course championships at Sabadell, takes over from New Zealander Lauren Boyle’s previous world record mark of 15min 22.68sec. Belmonte won…
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Scientists Set World Record for Living Underwater
Two scientists have broken the record for the longest time spent living underwater, as of 11:28 a.m. EST today. The biologists, Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain, have spent nearly 10 weeks in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, which bills itself as “the only undersea hotel on Earth†and is located just off the coast of Key Largo, Florida.…
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Live Stream and Results from the Nordic Swim Champs 2014
The 2014 Nordic Swim Champs have just started in Upplands Väsby near Stockholm in Sweden, with start lists here, live video streaming here on livetiming.se, live results here and listed results here. See also the event landing page here.
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OCEAN GRAVITY РGuillaume N̩ry / Julie Gautier
Ocean Gravity is a short film that rewrite the rules of the underwater world and takes us this time into the world of the weightlessness.
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Arena Cobra Ultra Goggles – Featuring Gregorio Paltrinieri
World (25m) Champion & two-time European 1500m Freestyle Champion, Gregorio Paltrinieri puts the new arena Cobra Ultra goggles through their paces.
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Denis Cotterell feels sorry for Sun Yang
Chinese swimming star Sun Yang’s Australian coach said he felt sorry for the double Olympic champion after it emerged he had served a doping ban, telling media Thursday the athlete was “let down”. Denis Cotterell made his comments after Australian swimming authorities barred the 1,500 metres world record-holder from training in the country’s pools in…
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How dangerous is sea swimming in cold weather?
On Christmas Day 1885 a few hardy souls hobbled across Brighton’s pebbly beach and into the chilly English Channel. That first Brighton Christmas Day swim has become a much-copied ritual around the world. But this year it’s been called off. And it seems unlikely the event, which has always been run by the Brighton Swimming…
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Brighton Christmas Day Swim called off amid fears for tipsy swimmers
The Christmas Day swim on Brighton beach, a tradition for 150 years, is cancelled over health and safety fears. A traditional Christmas Day swim on Brighton beach has been cancelled over health and safety fears, following increasing levels of drunkenness in recent years. In the past, the “Santa swim†has been called off due to…
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Marine staff sergeant becomes first amputee to graduate grueling swim course
The Marine Combat Instructor of Water Survival course is a grueling training evolution that requires Marines to swim a total of 59 miles over three weeks. The course that graduated on Nov. 25 started with nine participants, but only six were able to complete the challenge. One of those six had the deck stacked against…