Category: Swimming Pools
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CC photo #33: The Rijeka 2008 European SC Championships pool
The LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships pool in Rijeka, Croatia. Absolutely beautiful, and what an atmosphere it was, with all those records (never mind the suits :-)
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CPH:DOX 2011 – Eva Koch / Mike Sheridan
The neo-classical Øbro swimming hall in Copenhagen was the setting for this live CPH:DOX electronica session with visual accompaniment on November 12, 2011, featuring 19-year-old wunderkind Mike Sheridan and internationally renowned video artist Eva Koch. Hasn’t got much to do with swimming, but hey, it is a nice pool. CPHDOX 2011 – Eva Koch /…
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CC photo #28: Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto ready for Roma 09
The beautiful Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto indoor aquatics centre at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, during the 13th FINA World Aquatics Championships in Rome 2009. Inaugurated in 1959, designed by architects Enrico Del Debbio and Aniballe Vitellozzi to host the swimming, diving, water polo, and swimming portion of the modern pentathlon events for the…
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CC photo #26: Omega OSB11 starting blocks in KlaksvÃk
We might not have any 50-meter pools in the Faroe Islands, but we got our first set of fancy Olympic standard Omega OSB11 starting blocks in September, 2010, and our next in 2011, so that we at least can start our swims properly in 2 of 3 25-meter pools :-)
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Banning chlorine would improve swim safety by lowering the corrosion risk
Never thought of that, but this guy on ecademy makes a good point: In November 2011 a five month old baby diseased after being hit by a loud-speaker that fell from the ceiling of a swimming pool in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Over the past decennia several incidents occurred in swimming pools worldwide due to false…
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Epic 6 pass trick shot in a swimming pool
They are a youth group called The Living Room, and they obviously know that they are good! Even plan to build wells in Mozambique with www.hungerstrike.org, if this YouTube video of theirs earns any money.
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“Backyard Oasis”, the Palm Springs Art Museum swimming pool exhibition
This Saturday January 21st, 2012, Palm Springs Art Museum will open a new exhibition called “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982“, celebrating the iconic backyard swimming pool, forever associated with the Southern California good life. “The photographs project a happier, supposedly better way of life,†says Daniell Cornell, the museum’s deputy…
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Top 10 hotel swim-up bars
Sigh, number one is Dreams Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Well at least my dreams are for free ! :-) See full list here on boston.com
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9 awesome hotel pools, including a shark tank water slide
Nice list here on TravelSupermarket, via Neatorama. Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is there, of course, with its pool stretching across the skyscrapers, and Bláa Lónið (the Blue Lagoon) in Iceland. But the one taking the price is Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, with its water slide going through a shark tank.