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Read cnhi news service via Opposing Views An unidentified 54-year-old man in Crossville, Tennessee was robbed while he was distracted by a woman swimming nude in his backyard pool on Saturday. According to CNHI News, a woman and a man approached the victim’s home, but the woman sent her male accomplice away to get some cigarettes. The woman then asked the victim if she could swim naked in his pool, which he agreed to. The victim and the woman spent 20 minutes in his backyard while she skinny dipped. However, her male friend never returned with the cigarettes because he was…

See King5.com Olympic swimer and world record holder Ariana Kukors joined guest host Meeghan Black to talk about why she’s teaming up with LifeWise Health Plan of Washington to launch Actively Northwest, an online lifestyle magazine that features stories, tips and other resources to help people live healthy and fit lives. Ariana hopes to use her new position as Director of Health Inspiration for LifeWise to help motivate, support and encourage others in their health and fitness journeys. For more information about Actively Northwest, visit the website: www.ActivelyNorthwest.com

Hungary’s Zsuzsanna Jakabos and USA’s Celina Li readying themselves for the women’s 200 IM at the FINA 2012 World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. There was a slight difference in height, also without Jakabos stretching out. See the result list here.

“Be fast, be wild, be cool. A great water experience.” See swimtheisland.com http://youtu.be/pUlDXvtm9fA

See this Kickstarter fundraiser. It looks very interesting, but supporters please move fast to help them launch this product, as their deadline is running out in 4 days. Lo Swim was launched in 2009 by Sheeva VanGemeren and Annie Babicz with the Signature Training Bikini. As former college swimmers, (UC Davis and Cal, respectively) we had the privilege of receiving feedback from some of the best swimmers in the country. Our greatest compliment? “It stayed on better than a one-piece during run and dives!”….from an Olympian. Not only are we helping to bring beach worthy fashion trends to athletes, but…

Read Hürriyet Daily News and see bosphorus.cc Hasan Emre Musluoğlu from Turkey received the gold medal among the 1,532 swimmers at the 25th Bosphorus Cross-Continental Races yesterday in Istanbul, marking his fourth consecutive win. Another Turkish swimmer, Bertuğ Çoşkun, and Russia’s Evgeny Bezruchenko came in second and third respectively. Musluoğlu finished the 6.5-kilometer race across the Bosphorus in 39.13 minutes. Russia’s Evgenia Nikolaeva won women’s race in 43.59. Here is a video from last year, featuring Musluoğlu and Mark Spitz

Gentofte Svømmeklub announces today that Chris DeSantis will be their new head coach starting 1 August 2013, now with their current head coach Stefan Hansen moving on to become assistant head coach at the National Training Center. DeSantis is well known also as blogger for instance at The Swim Brief. ‘Chris will get to use his Master of Science in positive psychology, a science dealing with the “appreciative approach” that the club wants to build on. Chris has previously been an assistant coach at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he worked for 4 years with quality swimmers from around the world.…

Sweden’s Stefan Nystrand ready for the men’s 100 meter freestyle semifinal at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He was joint ninth with Italy’s Michele Santucci, see the result list here.

See for instance The Guardian The largest algal bloom ever recorded in China has turned the Yellow Sea green and may be related to pollution from agriculture and industry. Officials in the city of Qingdao had used bulldozers to remove 7,335 tonnes of the growth from beaches according to the Xinhua news agency. The phenomenon has become an annual occurrence in the region over the past six summers. This year’s incident has swathed 28,900 sq km (11,158 sq miles), twice as much as the previous biggest bloom in 2008.