Author: rokur
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Behold this epic 1500-people strong slow-motion water balloon fight
Courtesy of Freddy Wong and The Slow Mo Guys
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Tyler McGill named Assistant Coach for Auburn Swimming
See Auburn Tigers Former Tiger swimming great and 15-time All-American Tyler McGill has been named the newest assistant coach for the Auburn men’s swimming and diving team as announced by head coach Brett Hawke earlier this week. “I’m excited to make the transition from being in the water every day to being on deck and helping out,” McGill said.…
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Behold the European Union Youth Orchestra rehearsing in an (empty) swimming pool
See Art Journal This week in Vienna, 150 children from Turkey, Austria, Armenia, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland and the European Union Youth Orchestra met in Vienna to form a Sistema Europe orchestra. They had to scout around for somewhere to rehearse. Then they found this… an empty swimming pool at the Augarten Palace, residence of…
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FinaTV live stream from Berlin 2013 World Cup
FINA announces that the finals of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 – Berlin (GER) on August 10-11 will be streamed live and free of charge here on FinaTV The competition times for the event are as follows: Saturday, 10 August: Start Time: 13:00 to 16:00 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start…
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Former swim coach and club/LEN/FINA administrator Flavio Bomio sentenced 11 years in prison
According to Blick.ch, former coach and ex-president of swimming club Bellinzona has been sentenced to a prison term of eleven years, for over ten years to have sexually abused at least 15 boys between 12 and 16 years of age. The abuses ranged from touching the genital area when showering to anal sex, the coach…
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A walk around the BCN2013 Planet Water Village
Just me taking a walk around the 15th FINA World Championships “Planet Water Village” in Barcelona, Spain, GoPro in tow. The clips could be more still, the fingers more off the camera, the cuts better fitting to the music. But it was quickly made, and is better than nothing :-)
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Tunisian man prepares to swim from Russia to USA for world peace
See Fox40 Alisa Becerra chats with Nejib Belhedi, a Tunisian swimmer, who will be swim from Big Diomede to Little Diomede to promote world peace. (Video autostarts, therefore pushed below the break)
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South Korean prosecutors raid Gwangju Mayor Kang Un-tae’s office over forgery scandal
Read Inside the Games August 8 – South Korean prosecutors today raided the offices of Gwangju Mayor, Kang Un-tae, over allegations that he forged the signatures of both former Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik and former Culture Minister Choe Kwang-sik in the city’s bid document to host the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships.