Author: rokur

Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi being congratulated at the FINA 2012 World Swimming World Cup leg in Berlin, Germany, for winning the women’s 100 meter butterfly in 56.86. Sweden’s Louise Hansson won silver in 57.55 and the Netherlands’ Inge Dekker bronze in 57.65. See the result list here.

A really nice video on a very serious subject. Swimming is not just a sport.

Read The Age The tough love required after the London Olympics has honed Australia into a leaner, meaner swimming outfit for July’s world titles in Barcelona, new team boss Michael Scott believes. […] In one of his last acts before he resigned, ex-head coach Leigh Nugent set the qualifying standard at times required to reach 2011 world championship finals. It ensured a 36-strong team was unveiled on Friday night – 10 less than the much maligned London outfit which produced just one gold, their worst Olympic pool tally in 20 years.

See wtok.com Dirty water is being blamed for causing a murky mess at a Meridian swim club. The owner of what use to be Briarwood Country Club, estimates that between three and four inches of mud poured into the 10 foot deep pool there when workers attempted to fill it. Although this is a concern, he says the bigger problem is that residents and businesses in that area are often left to pay for brown water.

See The Huffington Post Not sure if you’ve heard, but Ryan Lochte wants to be the next Kim Kardashian. It’s not clear that his dream has come true — yet — but with the premiere of his reality TV show “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” in April, he’s certainly working on it. In another step towards the realization of said dream, Lochte dropped by fellow E! star Chelsea Handler’s show Thursday night, and the result was pretty incredible. While it’s always hard to choose our favorite lines from a Lochte interview – there are so many memorable utterances to choose from

Three weeks ago, former Scottish international swimmer and now head coach of the Fife Performance Swimming Squad John Dougall experienced acute stomach pain, and called 999 for an ambulance on the verge of collapse. Read for instance Fife Today, The Scottish Sun, The Courier and the Daily Record “They asked me the usual questions and basically asked if I had been drinking. I told them no, none of that and explained I lived on my own, that I couldn’t move. I needed help, I was in a really bad way but they said my symptoms wouldn’t warrant any help.” According…

Germany’s Steffen Deibler enjoying the sun in Hamburg, en route to a two-week training camp with hopefully even better weather in Sardinia. Laying the foundation for Barcelona 2013, and promising to try to post from Sardinia also. Yay! He broke the German 100 butterfly record with a 51.19 at the 2013 German National Championships recently, world’s best time this year that would have won him gold in London.

Via Belfast Telegraph

See for instance Discovery and Live Science Three college students were filming a short movie as a class project at Lough Foyle, a large tidal estuary in County Donegal, Ireland, when something very odd moved through the water in front of them “Looks like we have our own Loch Ness monster!” Conall Melarkey, a student at North West Regional College in Derry, Ireland, wrote in his posting of the video clip to YouTube.

“Manta rays are one of nature’s most graceful and eerie animals. In Episode 2 of UnderH2O, we go underwater off the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii — in the dark of night — to film these enormous creatures.” – Not sure, but I think that sound is added ;-)