Category: Equipment
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Season’s Greetings from Speedo
Featuring Tyler Clary, Michael Jamieson, Daryna Zevina, Mireia Belmonte, Jessica Hardy, Melani Costa and Cullen Jones.
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A swimmer’s Christmas gift guide
Read The Swimming Blog on the Guardian I assume everyone is as fussy as me so I’d never advocate giving a swimming costume. Knowing an approximate size is not enough; what’s the betting they’ll prefer a specific kind of back, leg cut, colour, make or combination of those things? Same with goggles – I know…
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Turkey labels swimming goggles worn during protests ‘weapons’
Read News24 A Turkish court has ruled that swimming goggles and other protective equipment used by protesters during this year’s mass street demonstrations were “weapons”, local media reported on Friday. Demonstrators armed themselves with home-made gear such as masks made of plastic bottles, motorbike helmets and goggles to protect themselves from tear gas fired by…
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CAMOPOOLâ„¢ “World’s 1st Camouflage Swimming Pool”
Warning, epic fundraising video, see RocketHub :-) “This is your opportunity to own the world’s 1st camouflage swimming pools before they are released to the public. Our awesome product is what we are offering to you for your support. We expect the delivery to take place sometime around April 2014.” RocketHub Speech from CAMOPOOL on…
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Textured surface could create ‘driest ever’ super-hydrophobic material
Read for instance BBC, livescience and nature US engineers at MIT in Boston have developed a new way of texturing surfaces that they believe could make for the “most waterproof material ever”. Inspired by ridges found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves, they added tiny ridges…
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Backstage with Olympic 100m Breaststroke Queen, Ruta Meilutyte
Footage taken from a recent photoshoot with Olympic & World 100m Breaststroke Champion, Ruta Meilutyte. Ruta talks openly about swimming and her relationship with the water.
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CC photo #675: Different body types at Istanbul 2012
So these two must be Germany’s (in orange) Johannes Dietrich and (in black) Marco di Carli (?) preparing themselves for the men’s 4×50 freestyle final at the LEN 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. A lot bad has been said about the supersuits, but they were also the great equalizer. Behind them Frédérick…
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Nice Arena ad featuring Gregorio Paltrinieri
Title says “Swim to grow – Arena promotes the practice of swimming”. Or something like that.
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Yamamoto Corp launches anti-radiation swimwear for Fukushima workers
Read for instance RT and see yamamoto-bio.com Designed in an effort to protect Fukushima clean-up workers, Osaka-based swimwear company Yamamoto Corporation unveiled the anti-radiation garments on Thursday. The company claims that the wetsuit made from stretchy rubberized kneaded carbon can stop 100 percent of beta radiation. The swimwear – which weighs only three kilograms –…