Author: rokur
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Grant Hackett: Blame me, not the booze
32-year-old Grant Hackett has told Channel 9’s 60 Minutes that it was the breakdown of his marriage to Candice Alley, and not excessive drinking, that had caused him to snap. Read Adelaide Now and see The Telegraph. “The reality was it wasn’t going well and I kept those cards really close to my chest and…
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Revishvili named best swimmer of the 2012 Open Maximali Cup
This weekend our friends over in Georgia arranged the international “Open Maximali Cup 2012” in Tbilisi, attracting about 200 swimmers from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, the best of them preparing for the European Juniors and the London Games this summer.
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Swimming tips for the Speedo centre snorkle
Swimming workout using a centre snorkle with GB coach Ben Titley and world champion Liam Tancock. Via the17thman.
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CC photo #176: Lavrans Solli at Debrecen 2012
Norway’s Lavrans Solli ready for the 50 backstroke heats at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Simma Norge told us this morning on Facebook that Solli has been selected for the London Olympics, so that sort of saved my photo of the day :-)
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Boy survives mile-long ride in storm drain during floods
Wow, read Nothing To Do With Arbroath An 8-year-old boy survived being swept into a Minnesota drain tunnel filled with rushing water and surfaced in a creek about a mile away. While he was under, it was his mother that was on his mind. “Mom, I thought I lost you,” Kenny Markiewicz told his mother,…
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2012 ASA Nationals: Turner and James added as relay swimmers
On this final day of the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships, no swimmer made an additional Olympic qualifying cut, but Grant Turner and Anthony James were picked as relays swimmers. Thus the second British trials with seven swimmers added to Team GB which, at 44, is the largest British squad sent to a Games.…
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Behind the scenes of the ‘underwater nightclub’
Oh no, it was fake. Via Yahoo! News … “We didn’t want to create a hoax,” says Krivicka, who produced the video with Thinkmodo co-founder James Percelay. “Instead, we imagined a ‘what if’ scenario. We wanted to make sure that this all could exist. The diving helmets are real; there are pressurized drinking containers. Some…
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Jerry Sandusky not a unique case
Read this by Diana Nyad on the Huffington Post “We act as if this is a unique situation. We have blared the Sandusky crimes and trial details across our front pages as if he’s a Jack the Ripper crime star of our times. Yes, he’s that big a criminal. Yes, justice has been served. Yes,…