Category: Swimming Pools
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Curl Curl
Early morning hours at Curl Curl sea pool on Sydney’s northern beaches. Soundtrack is “The Swimming Song” by Loudon Wainwright III. Love it. Curl curl from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo. Via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook.
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CC photo #54: The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center diving pool
The divers were the only ones (other than the open water swimmers out at the beach) to compete outside at the 14th FINA World Aquatics Championships – Shanghai 2011. China won all events.
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Sea pool
Short version of a documentary in production on the Australian ocean pool culture in Sydney such as the famous Bondi Icebergs swimming club. Via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook, love it!
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CC photo #51: Monterotondo ‘Stadio del Nuoto’ ready for Roma 2009
The Monterotondo municipal pool in Monterotondo was one of the four additional Roma 2009 World Championships 50 meter training facilities, and the only one indoor. I remember it as a long bus ride, but really nice because we got a break from the sun :-)
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Facility Tour – Kansas Jayhawks Swimming and Diving
Take a tour of the Jayhawks campus as well as downtown Lawrence, the student athletes academic center, strength and conditioning complex and the swimming and diving facilities. A clue: It is nice.
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BIOTOP Natural Pools use plants instead of chlorine to keep water safe
Wow, interesting (and literally very ‘green’), an Austrian company called Biotop Natural Pool uses plants to create an ecosystem where the pool is teaming with life. Pool designs have separate swimming and plant-growing areas of equal size. The plants eat the algae, which would otherwise take over. Via Mike Elgan on Google+
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CC photo #38: Pál Joensen being tested by Rein Haljand in Tórshavn
Pál Joensen taking a short breather while being instructed by Estonian kinesiology professor Rein Haljand about his next swim, back in 2009 in the swimming pool of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. That guy with the trolley in the white t-shirt is Haljand’s son and assistant, Holger, the other two are a Faroese TV crew.
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CC photo #37: Haljand-test in the swimming pool of Tórshavn
Faroese swimmer Poula Ø. Mohr ready for another lap of videoed sprint / racepace test in the swimming pool of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, last year. Dr. Rein Haljand is ready with a front underwater camera in the far end, and his assistant (and son) Holger to pull the side view video trolley. See www.swim.ee for…
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CC photo #34: Tórshavn’s swimming pool ready for the 2009 FAR-ISL Dual Meet
“Svimjihøllin à Gundadali” in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands ready for the inaugural annual dual meet between Faroe Islands and Iceland. Only a 25 meter pool, but nicely color-coordinated with lane ropes in Faroese colors and everything.
