Author: rokur

17-year-old Magnus Larson from the Danish island of Bornholm demonstrating “the dryland breaststroke turn”, as part of the ongoing ‘Can you do this?’ battle between Berns and SuSvim.

Surf N Turf San Clemente is the name of an 18-hole miniature golf course, a restaurant and a 75,000-gallon one-of-a-kind wave pool featuring sloping walls and sheets of gushing water that can be fine-tuned to support different skill levels and riding styles. “It’ll be the first real water half-pipe”, said Aaron McIntosh, a partner in the $2 million-plus project. Read The Orange County Register

Ernest Harvey Shepherd from Augusta, Georgia thought he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl when he was suggesting “skinny-dipping and lunch”, offering to bring wine coolers and to go to an Econo Lodge, before the FBI Cyber Crimes Child Exploitation Task Force finally busted him upon arrival at a prearranged location to engage in sexual acts with invented person. Parents of a 16-year-old had notified the police in May after they saw “questionable online communications” on Facebook between their daughter and Shepherd, who had met the teen while working as an official at swim meets. Resulting in investigation that identified 25…

Nice list here on TravelSupermarket, via Neatorama. Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is there, of course, with its pool stretching across the skyscrapers, and Bláa Lónið (the Blue Lagoon) in Iceland. But the one taking the price is Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, with its water slide going through a shark tank.

Menzies said yesterday she did not want to second-guess her former pupil and did not have any knowledge of his training regimen under respected coach Gennadi Touretski. But she had been surprised that he had made the decision to come back to a very different swimming landscape so late. Read The Sydney Morning Herald, via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook. “”You always felt there was unfinished business, but it was surprising in that you would have thought he would have made it earlier,” Menzies said. ”If he’s done everything in his power to do the right things, then the results…

The Danish Olympic Committee announced its London 2012 collection earlier this week, including formal clothing, sports wear and ‘Denmark wear’ developed by designers of official partner Bestseller’s fashion brands Jack & Jones and Vero Moda. The keen eye can pick out Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller in the track suit group shot from around 1:26, and then later both getting soaked from around 2:18. Plus Rikke apparently being really much involved in the design process also :-)

Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason survey the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships competition pool, before first training practice.

I don’t know, somehow I doubt that this was what Steve Jobs envisioned. The New York Times says $40, soon available in the US, from Aryca.

Update, not ‘tomorrow’ (as in Thursday), but on Friday … It has been six years since Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim last went head-to-head in a competitive 100m freestyle race, but tomorrow they’ll do it again, returning to the same Melbourne venue for the Victorian state titles where Thorpe pipped Klim at the nationals in 2006 with a 49.28 against 49.38. But, Klim might have a problem, as the telegraph writes: A decision will be made on Thursday whether 34-year-old Michael Klim, another Olympic champion on the comeback trail, will swim at the state titles after suffering a setback with…

Read SwimmingWorld Magazine: Bryan Woodward, head coach of the Gator Swim Club in Gainesville, Florida, was arrested this Monday on charges of the use of a computer to solicit a child for sex and for travel to seduce a child for sex. He is currently being held in Osceola County Jail, but will be heading to home confinement to await trial. See also Orlando Sentinel and The Gainesville Sun