Month: October 2015
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FINA Swimming World Cup 2015 – Tokyo Live Streaming & Results
The sixth leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015- in Tokyo (JPN) – on October 28-29 will be live streamed free of charge on FINAtv. Wednesday October 28, 2015 Finals: 17:00 (GMT+9) Thursday October 29, 2015 Finals: 17:00 (GMT+9) See start lists and results here on omegatiming.com More details about the competition can be…
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Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim, Hong Kong 2015
The 9th annual Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim, Hong Kong, 2015. Stanley to Deep Water Bay, 15km, with relay teams of 5 people, solos, or Yak Swimmers (2 swimmers and a kayak who rotate every 30min through the course)
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Seal Jumps On Guy’s Boat And Makes A Friend
It’s unclear why this cute seal decided to jump aboard this man’s boat — maybe it was escaping a predator, maybe it was just lonely. Either way this man has made a new best friend. A friend that really likes to cuddle. See Mashable
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Team Speedo video ǀ Interview with swimmer Mack Horton
Mack Horton is a rising star – multiple junior world record holder, junior gold medallist, and Team Speedo athlete. Get to know the Aussie swimmer as we grill him on cartoons, sports and his favourite guilty pleasure.
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Celebrity Fit: Olympic swimmer Sarra Lajnef shares her fitness routine
Now for Celebrity Fit, we have Tunisian Olympic Swimmer Sarra Lajnef who will share with us her fitness routine…
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RoboBee: Harvard engineers create robotic bee that can fly and swim
Engineers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have created a robotic bee, or RoboBee, that can fly and swim as well. The RoboBee has been flying around for some time. However, engineers have strived to modify the paper clip-sized robot in order to make it swim without any…
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Swimmer dies after being found in waters off Spitting Caves
The Honolulu Fire Dept. reports that a visitor died after being found in waters off Spitting Caves. The call came in at 2:51 p.m. Saturday of a swimmer in distress. Five males went swimming and one of them was having trouble in the water. The 21-year-old man from Washington state apparently was underwater for more than a…
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Swimmer fights off shark; ‘I just pulled out his eyeball’
A man swimming near the shores of Hawaii has shared a seemingly miraculous story of survival, detailing his fight against a shark that attacked him over the weekend, and the extreme lengths to which he went in order to survive. Tony Lee was swimming off the coast of Lanikai when he encountered the shark last…
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Just Keep Swimming
The sport of long-distance open-ocean swimming is like no other. RAAM riders take periodic motor home stops for hot showers and meals. Tour de France riders get massaged in hotels between stages. Even Mount Everest climbers stop and rest in tents, sometimes for days. Ms. Nyad’s sport allows none of this. In her four attempts…