Month: February 2016
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Swimbot is a smart device that corrects your swim technique in real time
Currently raising funds through crowdfunding website Indiegogo, Swimbot is a new high-tech device that helps users improve their swimming technique by correcting movements in real time. This lightweight device weighs just 60g and is backed by Olympic champions such as Rowdy Gaines (USA) and Alain Bernard (France). It’s currently available to pre-order via Indiegogo. See…
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A Dangerous Walk by the Sea
A couple, aged 75 and 76, went down to the beach in Porsguen in Portsall on the French coast this past Monday. A wave surprised them and knocked the man down. As he was being swept out to sea, his wife chased after, and was soon swept under herself! A tourist from Paris went in…
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HBCU Gameday Presents: “I’m a black girl and I swim
Members of the North Carolina A&T swim team shared their swim journeys with HBCU Gameday.
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1952 Helsinki Olympic Games Men’s 100 meter freestyle
Clarke Scholes (USA) led from the start, was first at the turn and finished inches ahead of Hiroshi Suzuki of Japan, who came up with a rousing burst of speed in the final 25 yards. Both were clocked in 57 point 4 seconds.
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Matt Biondi Named Pac-12 Swimmer Of The Century
In a conference that has few rivals when it comes to the amount of Olympic talent it has produced in the pool, the conversation for greatest male swimmer of the last 100 years starts and stops in Berkeley. So said the Pac-12 on Monday when it announced Cal legend Matt Biondi has been named the…
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Austrian swimming pool off-limits to ‘unaccompanied refugees’ amid child rape outrage
The alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy by an Iraqi refugee in Vienna has sparked mixed reactions: while locals feel unsafe and blame the government, pro-immigration campaigners claim such cases should not be the basis for “general mistrust.†After the boy was allegedly brutally raped in southwestern Vienna by a 20-year-old refugee in the…
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Dirigo Stories: Classmates help immigrant students learn to swim
On a cold day in Portland, the water’s warm at the YMCA. It’s great news for the group of Casco Bay High School students taking their swim test. “Swimming is a life skill. It’s a life-saving skill, and it’s essential,” said Grant Gerber, a junior on the swim team at Husson University. Gerber returned to…
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Lana Del Rey and Father John Misty Go for a Swim in Trippy New ‘Freak’ Video
Having a rough day and meditation just isn’t cutting it? Then I suggest checking out Lana Del Rey’s new video for “Freak,†off her 2015 album “Honeymoon,†for a touch of inner peace. Word of warning: You’ll need about 11 minutes of your time to watch the clip, which Del Rey released late Tuesday night. See…
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Swim star Cameron McEvoy says passing up chance to train with Michael Phelps a great decision
Cameron McEvoy believes passing up the rare chance to go head-to-head with Olympic legend Michael Phelps may be the best decision he has made as he chases gold in Rio. McEvoy, 21, had the chance to head to America to train with and race 18-time Olympic gold medallist Phelps at the US winter titles, and…