15 May 2014 in Ski, Norway, a 25-year-old former swimmer was sentenced to three years in jail for firebombing sport director Frank Pedersen’s residence back in January 2011, when Pedersen, his wife, three daughters (11, 13 and 17) and two other youngsters were sleeping inside. See øb.no via simma.nu/no
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On the 10th May, the season of Marnaton challenges opened with a new event, the first Marnaton eDreams Barcelona. A 2 km challenge off the beach of Sant Sebastià , consisting of a women’s individual event, a men’s relay event and a relay event, focused on making open water swimming more popular.
A selection of photos from the Bergen Swim Festival 2014, courtesy of swim fan, dad and photographer friend Kjell Eirik Irgens Henanger. You can see more of his work here on Flickr.
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One of three people who were in a canoe that overturned in an Orange Park lake in the middle of the night remains missing.
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It’s hard to fathom, but Sue Walsh is about to send her youngest child off to college. Shawn Stankavage is headed for Vanderbilt on a football scholarship. Kids these days would compare him to Johnny Manziel, but his mother’s generation would see the next Fran Tarkenton.
It’s hard to fathom because it seems like yesterday when Walsh was going off to college after pit stopping in Moscow for a gold medal. At least that was the plan when the former swimming prodigy from Hamburg graduated early from Mount Mercy Academy and skipped prom to train for the 1980 Summer Olympics.
“And I’d do it all over again,†Walsh said by phone last week.
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A lifeboat crew stopped an out-of-control speedboat by lassoing it.
The six-metre vessel went into a spin when its skipper, Peter Channing, 66, was trying to moor up and accidentally knocked the throttle.
He was thrown overboard and had taken off his kill chord — a safety device attached to his leg that should have pulled out the ignition key when he fell in the water — so the boat began to circle.
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Awesome!
Wakeboard from Anko James on Vimeo.
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After all, why peer-pressure somebody into sinking a few shots, when you can dare them to risk life and limb to sink like a stone into the icy waters of a built-up harbour?
So yeah, the shame is on us.
The fad has btw passed by now (for now?), about the same time as a popular local musician shamed everyone back with his musical nomination answer ‘a stupid time’ (or something like that, translated)
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Ryan Lochte walks slowly into the room, a bulky brace on his left knee. He’s still got that same goofball demeanor, that same unique sense of fashion (on this day, he’s wearing a fedora with his trademark phrase “Jeah†embroidered across the back).
But the signs of change are all around.
He’s hobbled by the most serious injury of his career. He’s adjusting to a new home in North Carolina. And there’s that 30th birthday looming in August, the surest sign that he’s getting closer and closer to the day when he’ll have to find something else to do besides swimming.
“As you get older,†Lochte said, “your body doesn’t get any younger. I’ve started to realize that.â€
