Category: Swimming Pools
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Swim. – Behind the scenes / day three
Warning, no pool shot this time. Follow them like crazy on Facebook. See also behind the scenes day one and two. SWIM – Behind the Scenes / Day Three from SWIM. – Short Film on Vimeo.
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Grant Hackett: “No pool, no career”
Tell me about it, it’s like hockey rink that I never got ! “I began swimming at Innisfail in Queensland and we had a pool and my swimming career would be non-existent without the pool. “Sporting facilities are the heart of regional communities and it becomes more than just a pool, but a meeting place,”…
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Dive into Barcelona’s Olympic swimming pool
The outdoor Olympic swimming pool in Barcelona (Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc) boasts stunning panoramic views of the city and costs only £4 to visit. Pro-diver and Barcelona native José Marillo shows us round his ‘office’. Via the Guardian.
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Swimming prohibited only in swimming area ?
And prohibited during swimming hours, see rule No. 3. Sign found in Okinawa, Japan, picture courtesy of Daam Nillan, via Engrish.com.
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Liquid nitrogen into a swimming pool
Sweet, wish they had a human guinea pig to throw into it. Oh wait. Liquid Nitrogen Into A Swimming Pool from physicisttv on Vimeo. Physicisttv.com via GoSwim on Twitter.
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World’s longest swimming pool concept wins Holcim Gold Award
The 3rd International Holcim Awards for sustainable construction projects from across Europe were recently announced at a ceremony in Milan, with the German architectural firm realities:united taking first prize for its Flussbad proposal. We’re talking transforming a strech of the River Spree in central Berlin into a 745 meter “swimming pool”, purified naturally by a…
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Interviewing Dr Homayun Gharavi – Part 2
So, after a quick change of camera (and Home-made solution to secure the additional camera to the incompatible tripod by using packaging from the recently bought batteries), we go on about Home’s visit to the Faroe Islands, digging deeper into the project of Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason in Suðuroy. I ask what Dr. Gharavi…
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Danish Olympians hope to find gold in Colorado
For the third time in less than two years, Danish national coach Paulus Wildeboer has brought his team of European swimmers back to the high elevation water of the Lake County Aquatics Center in Leadville, Colorado. “The are only pools in the world at this elevation. It’s very rare to find something like that,” Wildeboer…
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The London 2012 Aquatics Centre is (almost) ready
The Brits celebrated the completion of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre already in July, with one year to go until til London 2012 Olympics. The pictures are certainly impressive, but I won’t rest easy until there are some Omega OSB11 starting blocks at each end :-) Here is Tom Daley performing the first official dive.…