Category: Fun
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Professional Swimmer – Ready Room to Pool with Speedo
Find out what the athletes see behind the scenes from the ready room to the pool at the 2012 Istanbul Short Course World Championships with Speedo. Interesting swim when ‘Ryan’ gets into pool, is that 2 butterfly strokes and then a bit of underwater doggy-paddle before finishing at 25 meters ? :-P
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An interesting drill performed by Allison Schmitt and Anthony Ervin
A scene at the Istanbul 2012 World Champs, “What goes on in the warm up warm down pool stays there”, courtesy of CoachJackRoach (See yfrog) Update, GoSwim calls this a Partner Pusher
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Ryan Lochte gave this kid his gold medal
Not one to be outdone by Matt Grevers, Ryan Lochte ran over and gave this kid his gold medal, that he won when smashing the 200 IM world record, yesterday. A lot of smiles ensued, I heard today a bit of crying also, when the kid lost the medal through the bleachers, because of other…
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Grevers fever
After winning the men’s 100 backstroke at the Istanbul 2012 World Championships tonight, Matt Grevers went over to meet his family. Then the supporters found him. Then it was photo op after photo op. My camera is too slow for this.
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CC photo #346: Blue Screen over Istanbul 2012
A photo from the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m), the last day before competition starts. Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure this will be okay tomorrow, and they are not the first to have had this happen :-P
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CC photo #344: A fun game in our local pool
Don’t take my word for it, but I think this is an invention of our local head coach, Rúni Gaardbo, here at FLOT in Toftir, Faroe Islands: The kids are divided into two teams that must stay behind the lane ropes. The kickboards are arranged in pairs upright as shown on the photo, equal amounts…