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Olympic 100m Breaststroke Queen, Ruta Meilutyte will be joining us for a Live Video Chat, here at waterinstinct.com, on Monday 20th January 2014.
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Heavy in heart, Dr. Vorontsov writes to SwimVortex.com of the sorrow he feels over Efimova’s case. He rejects the notion that Efimova may have cheated deliberately; regrets that she did not ask for advise; defends US coach Dave Salo in the Russia-USA divide; points a cautious finger at land-training ‘gurus’; and looks forward to a frank and full explanation from Efimova.
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Wearing scuba diving gear, Pascual Mimbela dives into the Pacific waters of Talara province with his brushes, spatulas, oils and canvases.
Mimbela paints the colourful fish he sees glide by, as well as the reefs and other aquatic sea life.
Mimbela said he became fascinated with the sea when he was a child, and dreamt of one day painting from the ocean floor.
“All my life I’ve painted boats, fish, beaches and waves. But this time, I decided to take it further,” he said.
Courtesy of Crazy Russian Hacker and his American sidekick
Behold this wonderful video by Swedish national TV svt.se, featuring the queen of Swedish swimming Therese Alshammar, her son Fred, and her coach/partner Johan Wallberg. Via simma.nu/se
In Swedish – My attempt to translate follows below the video
It is now 8 months since Therese Alshammar had her son Fred, and she has the all the time been set on that her time as competition swimmer is not over. On the contrary, she has decided to do anything to reach the Olympics in Rio in two years time, and there win that gold she is missing and so much longs for.
Alshammar: A lovely objective, and a privilege to be able to have it as a goal, to be able to work towards it. And it is motivating in itself to think that you have a chance to be there and compete for some of the biggest medals. But then there is nothing I’m missing, as this is my normal life, I find it most fun to be able to train and see if I can swim faster than I’ve ever done. And to do what’s needed to try to win that Olympic gold medal.
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Dolphins swim by exerting minimum effort, according to a new study. This finding overturns an 80-year-old paradox that argues dolphins are not designed for swimming.
By using bubbles in a pool, researchers have concluded that swimming dolphins generate thrust quite easily and have no need to compensate for their supposedly underpowered muscles. To show this, researchers filmed the animals swimming through a curtain of tiny air bubbles. The frame-to-frame shifts in bubble position let the researchers work out how much thrust the dolphins produced.
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Image courtesy of Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0
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A Dapto mum who was not allowed to swim at Port Kembla Olympic Pool because she was wearing too much clothing for the lifeguard’s liking has lodged a complaint with Wollongong council, citing discrimination.
Body-conscious Katherine Pulo wore a rash vest and a stretchy, lightweight dress as she approached the pool with her two sons about 11.45am yesterday.
She told the Mercury she was stopped by a council lifeguard who told her: “I can only let Muslims in the pool in dresses.”
Aargh, it is ‘premium content’ on The Australian, but still …
New national head coach Jacco Verhaeren believes being the No 1 team in the world is the “only ambition Australia can have”. The decorated Dutch coach arrived in Australia this week as part of the push to revive the Australian team’s fortunes after the London Olympics slump and hit the ground running, attending the Victorian championships in Melbourne yesterday to meet and greet swimmers and coaches.
Australia's secret weapon :-) Miss you mate! pic.twitter.com/4X8JCV39Gb
— Pieter vd Hoogenband (@pvdhoogenband) January 18, 2014
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A junior Marine died this week in a swimming pool at Camp Pendleton, Calif., while completing a water skills test, Marine Corps officials said this week.
Pfc. Joshua Islam, 18, of Union County N.C., was participating in an intial screening at School of Infantry-West as a precursor to the Marines’ physically demanding reconnaissance training, said Col. Sean Gibson, a spokesman for Training and Education Command. He had graduated from boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., only three months earlier, in October 2013.
He died Monday in a pool at Camp Las Pulgas, near Pendleton’s center, while undergoing a test that required him to tread water for 30 minutes.
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