Author: rokur
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Stockholm SwimRun
“21 km trail. 3,8 km open water. 1 hell of a race” Stockholm SwimRun from Team Nordic Trail on Vimeo.
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The Water Is My Sky
Introducing: ‘The Water Is My Sky,’ a feature length documentary aiming to explore the world of elite competitive swimming. Here interviewing Rowdy Gaines. The Water Is My Sky from The Water Is My Sky on Vimeo.
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Swimmer’s ‘idiotic’ shark hug caught on camera
See 9News The man, whose head is only centimetres from the mouth of the lemon shark, has been bagged on social media for the stunt performed while snorkelling off the Pacific island of Bora Bora recently. The lemon shark moves gently through the water as the snorkeler, dressed in board shorts and flippers, approaches and…
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Cam You Can! Episode 2 with high-flying acrobat Cameron van der Burgh
Head and Shoulders Presents Cam you Can! with Cameron van der Burgh!
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Controversy continues to whirl around Chinese swimming star Sun Yang
Read People Daily Despite having finished his seven-day detention for driving without a license, China’s Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang remains the center of controversy. Sun’s relationship with teammates was questioned this time as a local newspaper reported on Nov 17 that the 400m and 1,500m freestyle Olympic champion has become a supercilious athlete after…
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I’m A Celebrity 2013: Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington confesses to peeing in the pool
See Nottingham Post Nottingham’s very own Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington shocked her fellow campers last night on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here when she confessed that she always pees in the pool. Team mate Joey Essex couldn’t resist probing the gold medallist about her swimming secrets during a Snake Rock campsite…
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Phoenix Swim Club pool to be officially demolished
Read SwimmingWorld and see ABC Supporters of a popular Phoenix swimming pool lost a last chance effort Tuesday to save their home. Hundreds of supporters were at Phoenix City Hall Tuesday to appeal to city commissioners during the city council meeting. The council was considering a re-zoning request that would demolish the pool at the…
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Speedo Advisors | How to overcome the fear of swimming with your face in the water
How to overcome the fear of swimming with your face in the water by Julie Johnston
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Textured surface could create ‘driest ever’ super-hydrophobic material
Read for instance BBC, livescience and nature US engineers at MIT in Boston have developed a new way of texturing surfaces that they believe could make for the “most waterproof material ever”. Inspired by ridges found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves, they added tiny ridges…