Author: rokur
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Night Diving with Manta Rays
“Manta rays are one of nature’s most graceful and eerie animals. In Episode 2 of UnderH2O, we go underwater off the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii — in the dark of night — to film these enormous creatures.” – Not sure, but I think that sound is added ;-)
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Fraser-Holmes caps rollercoaster week with a Commonwealth record
Read for instance ninemsn.com.au In a rollercoaster week that began with a 400m flop, Fraser-Holmes is now primed to make a splash in the four-lap IM at July’s world titles in Barcelona after posting the year’s second fastest time on Friday night. […] Just like Thorpe in the 2004 Olympic trials in the same event,…
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Australian swimming’s rehabilitation will be a long haul
Read Herald Sun With the sport humiliated and chastened in the wake of London, rehabilitation is a long, incremental and necessary haul that will need every kilometre of the road to Rio. Often considered curious, swimming’s prominence was grounded in its capacity to showcase the vibrant best of Australian youth. Central to its hold was…
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Jordan Harrison 14:51.70 and 3rd fastest Aussie 1500 swimmer ever
Read for instance news.com.au and The Australian Guided by Hackett’s coach Denis Cotterell at the same Gold Coast pool, Harrison last night became the second fastest 17-year-old in the history of the 1500m freestyle. Harrison’s 14min51.02sec is quicker than Hackett’s 14:51.70 when he won the 1998 world championship in Perth. The fastest time ever by…
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World Water Bombing Championships 2013
The World Water Bombing – where the aim is to make the biggest splash possible – took place in Sheffield, England on Wednesday. Forget the style, grace and acrobatic awe of diving, the 9th annual World Water Bombing Championships took over Sheffield’s Ponds Forge on Wednesday as 36 contestants from nine different teams raised money…
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Misty Hyman at G. Frank Davidson Elementary School in Phoenix
Misty Hyman is an American former competition swimmer who won the gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She spoke to the students at G. Frank Davidson Elementary School in Phoenix in 2013.
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Ghana swimmers qualify for World Junior Championships
Tesano Dolphins duo, Kweku Addo and Ophelia Swayne have made the required time to participate in the 4th FINA World Junior championship in Dubai. The competition comes off from the 26th to the 31st of August, this year. They made the time at this year’s Accra Open Swimming Championship organised by the Ghana Swimming Association.
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CC photo #489: Rijeka 2008 Men’s 50 Back Medal Winners
The men’s 50 meter backstroke medal winners at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. From left to right Lubos Krizko (Slovakia, bronze), Stanislav Donets (Russia, gold) and Aschwin Wildeboer Faber (Spain, silver) See the result list here.