Month: December 2015
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Finally, a smartphone you can wash with soap and water
What’s better than a waterproof smartphone? How about one you can clean with soap? Kyocera, which has done a line in toughphones for several year, revealed exactly that. Launching in (particularly soap-themed) pink, white and blue options in Japan, don’t let the kawaii design fool you — the phone is pretty designed to take some…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 2
Laszlo Cseh celebrates his 30th birthday with a gold Legendary Hungarian swimmer Laszlo Cseh celebrated his 30th birthday by winning a gold medal at the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Netanya. Soon after the race ended, spectators, VIP guests and athletes joined in singing him “Happy birthday to youâ€. It was Cseh’s 17th s/c…
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How Osteopathy Can Improve Your Swimming Form
Guest post by Melbourne Osteopathy Sports Injury Centre Swimming is a human art form that involves the correct positioning and orientation of all your limbs. Osteopathy is all about correcting the alignment of the entire musculoskeletal framework to illuminate any problems of posture or injuries that you may have as well as using different techniques…
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Police: Two dead in crash involving Lenape swim team bus
The driver of a Volkswagen Passat and his passenger were killed in Southampton Township late Tuesday afternoon when their car crashed head-on into a school bus carrying the Lenape High School girls’ varsity swim team to a meet, according to New Jersey State Police. Eight of the 20 students on the bus were taken to…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 1
Katinka Hosszu cracks WR in the heats, wins first gold in the evening Katinka Hosszu (HUN) was fresh to set the first world record of the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships in the morning heats of the opening day. Later she added the title in the 400m IM and his team-mate Peter Bernek also earned…
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Beasts of the deep: Swimming with the underwater Big 5
Done the famous Big Five of Africa — lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros? What’s next? Time to swap the khaki shorts and binoculars for diving suit and swimming goggles in pursuit of five other giants in Asia-Pacific. Found in the oceans of Australia and islands further afield are some of world’s most iconic endangered…
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80 Per Cent Of NSW Swimming Pools Are Unsafe, Says Royal Life Saving NSW
The majority of backyard swimming pools in New South Wales have been deemed ‘unsafe’, with Royal Life Saving NSW revealing 80 per cent of the state’s 350,000 registered pools would fail an initial compliance inspection. According to figures extracted from local councils, Royal Life Saving NSW believes the safety regulations designed to prevent backyard drownings…
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Penelope Cruz is a ridiculously good swimmer in new ‘Zoolander 2’ trailer
A new international trailer for Zoolander 2 wants you to know that swimsuit models are not, in fact, useless. Though many of the clips from the new trailer are ones we’ve seen before (i.e., the controversial Benedict Cumberbatch scene that instigated a boycott petition), we also see more of Cruz’s swimsuit-model-turned-Interpol-agent. Not only is she…
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Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 4:19.46 and new World Record in the 400 IM
This morning at the LEN 2015 European Short Course championships in Netanya, Israel, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu broke the 400 meter individual medley world record, clocking 4:19.46 where Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s world record from the Doha 2014 World Short Course Championships was 4:19.86. See the result list here. Katinka Hosszu said after the race: “Ever…