Via Buzzfeed, the sound of frozen sea being pushed against the shore in Odessa, Ukraine.
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Wow, interesting (and literally very ‘green’), an Austrian company called Biotop Natural Pool uses plants to create an ecosystem where the pool is teaming with life. Pool designs have separate swimming and plant-growing areas of equal size. The plants eat the algae, which would otherwise take over. Via Mike Elgan on Google+
The kids have this fun tradition at the Stockholm leg of the FINA World Cup Tour, ‘fishing’ with their autographs books from the balcony. Here they’ve caught Geoff Huegill, gold winner in the 50 meter butterfly that year (2011).
Last year’s video was, ehm, ‘interesting’, but now it is going too far, me thinks.
Impressive speed those little things can get up to
According to the Washington Post 16-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps said Wednesday he had been sleeping “at 8,000 feet every night†for almost a year, after noticing he bounced back from workouts better when he trained at altitude, and therefore trying a device that simulates that. “We’ve been able to realize after going to Colorado Springs so many times that it is something that helps me recover,†Phelps said. “That’s something that is so important to me now being older. I don’t recover as fast as I used to.†They are for some reason calling it a hyperbaric chamber, which…
Via The Washington Post
Sixty of Italy’s elite athletes are appealing Premier Mario Monti to give the government’s support behind the Rome 2020 Olympic bid for the summer Games, with the Italian economic crisis as main obstacle to gaining full support. Read SportsFeatures.com.
According to this article on swim.be (in Flemish, I don’t speak Flemish so beware…), the organizers of the 2012 European Long Course Championships are facing serious financial problems, with additional 300,000 € needed now only 3 months away from the event. It is rumored that the Dutch city of Eindhoven stands ready to take over the championships, but that would be a heavy blow to the Belgians. Via Hollandswimming