An intruder made an unwelcome splash when he invaded the final of the men’s 10m platform final, won by Tom Daley at the Diving World Series.
The young man evaded security staff to make a dash for the diving boards at the London Acquatics Centre on Sunday night.
He pulled off his tracksuit to strip to Speedos as he rushed up the stairs, closely followed by the guard.
But he could not be stopped and jumped into the pool – to boos from the crowd.
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The 20-year-old freestyle and butterfly star made the bold decision after last month’s selection trials to leave coach Vince Raleigh at Chandler and move across Brisbane to join Michael Bohl’s squad at St Peters Western that is fast becoming Australia’s top young talent team.
It meant that McKeon would no longer train alongside her older brother, 200m and 400m freestyle gun David, but this move is certainly no family feud with the siblings to remain in the same share house but just drive in a different direction to training every day.
It is the second time in a year that McKeon has changed coaches, after she and David moved to Brisbane from Wollongong last year where they were coached by their father Ron.
Bohl said McKeon was trialling in his squad up until the Australian swim team next race at a grand prix meet in Canberra on May 15 but for now the move was working out well.
“She will give it a trial through to the Canberra grand prix in a couple of weeks and then make a decision more long term after that,†Bohl said.
“I think she is just at that point where she is not quite sure and I guess with kids it’s probably happening a lot around Australia people if they’re going to make changes it’s probably now or just after worlds with the Olympics next year,
“It is important they find the situation that they feel comfortable in.
“You don’t know what a program is like until you try it.
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A North Carolina couple’s black lab is in the doghouse after crashing a pickup truck into a swimming pool. The pooch didn’t have her paws on the steering wheel but she was pawing the pedal to the metal.
Their pet named Caroline rarely left home without the couple, Mike and Ruth Smith. But when they made a grocery run the dog got spooked.
“And when she gets scared, she’ll go down on the floorboard of the truck,” said Michael Smith
Ruth Smith was driving but now she had 90 pounds of scared dog on her foot and despite Michael’s efforts to pull her off, the pickup continued to go faster.
Ruth tried to keep the truck straight and aimed for a wooden fence. There it plowed through the fence and to the surprise of all, into a swimming pool.
Other than a few cuts to Michael Smith, everyone else made it out fine. The dog-driven Dodge truck however, is done.
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Tim Ferriss, best known as the author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,†has built a career around dissecting the techniques of the world’s elite performers and packaging them in a way anyone can use.
He’s worked with experts to learn Brazlian Jiu-Jitsu, how to race a rally car, and how to become conversational in a language in just three months.
The skill he’s most proud of learning, however, is long-distance swimming, Ferriss tells Business Insider.
In 2008, at the age of 31, he not only overcame a lifelong fear of drowning, but became a practiced swimmer.
With the right teacher, in about a week he went from not being able to swim to swimming 40 laps at a time. A few months later, he could swim a mile in open water.
He says the experience was “mind-blowing†and changed his perspective on how skills could be learned. It forced him to ask himself, “If I thought this was impossible, what other things do I think are impossible that are completely achievable?â€
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One moment the US fishing enthusiast was posing triumphantly with his prized catch — the next, a hungry sea lion was dragging him underwater to what he feared would be his certain death.
Dan Carlin had reeled in a number of yellowtails from his nine-metre boat in waters off San Diego, California, when his wife Trish asked him to smile for a photo, 10 News reports.
The 62-year-old accountant grinned and held up one of the fish when a sea lion sprang two metres from the water and latched onto his hand in an effort to snatch the tasty treat.
His wife’s incredible photo captures the moment the predator bit into Mr Carlin’s hand, just before it dragged him six metres underwater.
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International open water championship Oceanman united more than 1500 people for a weekend of sport, competitive spirit and leisure
Last April 25-26 athletes from all over the world came to Altea to compete in the first swim of the Oceanman championship. Faithful to its nature, it was truly an international event with representatives from 12 different countries, building up to a solid 20% of the total number of participants.
Swimming experience in Altea wasn`t all about competing but also about leisure and other sports events, including the wetsuit test run, clinics session in the municipal pool of Altea, a cocktail party and the technical briefing at the local youth center, to name just a few.
In the early morning, at 9.am, swimmers were given headstart to the first 10km race, starting at La Olla beach and finishing at the beach of La Roda. Adrián Gonzaléz, the current state subchampion of open water swimming won out in the final sprint the Andalusian champion Paco GarcÃa and the Swedish swimmer Alexander Berggren.
Georgia Alice Amison from the UK finished first in the female category, followed by Eliana Sotelo and Ineke Weekers in the second and third positions respectively.
The second morning swim of the day had to be modified due to the strong wind current coming from the south. The participants of this race tackled 2500 m out of initial 5000m with the start and finish at La Roda beach. In the male category the victory went to Victor Benages from Castile, with Jaime Marqués from Toledo and Iñaki Guridi from the Basque Country in the second and third positions. Female category featured Sandra Ortolá from swim club Altea in the third position, Rebeca Santos from swim club Torrijos second and Ana MartÃnez from swim club Palma in the first position.
Oceanman Altea also offered a non-competitive 1.5km race with the start and finish at La Roda beach. As traditional this race generated lots of interest among the public who had the chance to witness the finish line live.
Overall three competitions gathered more than 550 swimmers. In May the championship series is moving to the Costa Brava, Palamós, to bring together once again more than 500 swimmers for a memorable and enjoyable open water experience. Oceanman will be back to Alicante´s coast in October with the European Oceanman Final in Benidorm 25 October.
More details on the championship at: www.oceanman-openwater.com
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According to new research, many marine animals may have independently learned to optimize their swim strokes in the same way.
A tiny cuttlefish and a huge stingray don’t look like they have much in common. Genetically and morphologically, they don’t. But even though their bodies are totally different shapes, it seems that both follow the same mechanical rules when they swim: Their long fins both ripple lengthwise and oscillate from side to side. And for both, the length of one undulation during swimming divided by the height of the sideways movement is always a ratio of around 20.
In fact, at least 22 marine animals have exactly the same ratio.
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Several city pools are set to open in the coming month, but a couple will not open at all this summer. The Parks and Recreation Department determined 25 of the city’s 36 pools are in need of repairs, mostly for water leaks.
Metz Pool, on Austin’s east side, and Mabel Davis Pool, on the south side, will remain closed for the summer. PARD officials say the repair work needed at those pools is so extensive they are keeping them closed to cut costs.
“Our average age of our pools is 50 years old,†said Cheryl Bolin, the aquatics division manager. “With that comes a lot of maintenance. They develop leaks, and so that increases our fees for water, electricity, chemicals, and day to day repairs.â€
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A Navy SEAL from Queens and another from Michigan died after a training accident in a swimming pool at a base in Virginia.
Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Seth Cody Lewis of Queens and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Brett Allen Marihugh of Livonia were found unresponsive Friday at the bottom of the Combat Swimming Training Facility at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
Lewis, 32, died Friday and Marihugh, 34, died Sunday, officials said.
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