Author: rokur
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NewScientist: Forget doggy paddle – apes prefer breaststroke
Read New Scientist Different strokes for different folks? Not when it comes to the aquatic ape: the first detailed observations of swimming chimpanzees and orang-utans suggest that they, like us, tend to swim using a form of breaststroke. The findings imply that we may owe our swimming style to our evolutionary past. http://youtu.be/VrXi3_G-1yk
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Estonian swim coach banned for life after spiking his athlete’s drink with anabolic steroids
Title says it all, read PostBulletin.com and see fina.org FINA says an Estonian anti-doping panel found that Nikolai Borzov gave Anita Stepanenko a drink containing stanozolol “without notifying the swimmer.” The Estonian Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel imposed undermentioned sanctions: Ms Anita Stepanenko (EST) – one (1) year ineligibility starting on July 23, 2013; Mr Nikolai Borzov…
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Katinka Hosszú 57.50 and new 100 IM SC World Record at the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup
Four world records in two events in two days. That. Is. Impressive. Tonight at the FINA 2013 World Cup meet in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú set a yet another 100 individual medley short course world record, clocking 57.50 where her world record from this morning was 57.73. She also clocked 4:22.18 and new 400…
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Friendly dolphin catches 10 lb cod, gives it to 14-year-old girl
Read swns.com via Arbroath 14-year-old Lucy Watkins and her grandparents were canoeing off the Devon coast in England, when a dolphin came by and started swimming around their canoes. To their astonishment, the animal dove down and dropped a massive cod next to Lucy, and started nudging it towards the teenager. Unsure still whether the…
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Behold AquaTop Display, a responsive touchscreen interface on water
Engineers at the University of Electro-Communication in Tokyo have developed this amazing touch-sensitive and responsive interface that works in a pool of (cloudy) water, using a Microsoft Kinect depth camera, a projector, a PC, modified speakers and the water surface as touch panel. It is truly immersive, the first really impressive Surface if you catch…
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Experts warn swimmers of testicle-chomping fish in Øresund
Via Jyllands-Posten (in English) The pacu is a South American freshwater fish that can grow up to 25 kilos (55 lbs). It is related to the piranha, but is mainly vegetarian and has squarer, straighter molar-like teeth to crush fruit and nuts with. Believed to have been introduced in Papua New Guinea to aid local…
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Katinka Hosszú 57.73 and new 100 IM SC World Record in the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup prelims
Wow, she did it again! At the FINA 2013 World Cup meet in Eindhoven this morning, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú set a new 100 short course meters individual medley world record, clipping the 57.74 world record of Dutch swimmer Hinkelien Schreuder with the slimmest of margin, 57.73 and an exciting final again tonight. See the result…