Hilary Phelps, the oldest sister of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, talks with Gerry Sandusky about her family’s swimming heritage, their competitiveness and how she feels before running the half marathon.
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Behold Formula Three Freediving – One Breath Underwater Motor Racing
Or as described on performancefreediving.com, “Formula 3 Freediving (F3F), the underwater racing concept where Top Gun, meets Formula One, meets Freediving.”
F3F PROMO from Performance Freediving on Vimeo.
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Former swim coach Todd Sousa gets another 16-month sentence for sex crimes
A Laguna Hills swimming coach who has already served time behind bars for having sex with one of his 15-year-old students was sentenced today to another 16 months in prison for molesting another teenage girl.
Todd Robert Sousa, 39, who co-owned Swim Venture Inc. of Laguna Hills with his wife, pleaded guilty in June to six counts of lewd acts on a child age 14 or 15 and one count of unlawful sex, all felonies, for assaulting the second 15-year-old girl in September 2009.
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Swimmer killed by shark off Jeffreys Bay in South Africa
See for instance JBAYNEWS, IOL and the National Sea Rescue InstituteJBAYNEWS
74 year old JBay local Burgert van der Westhuizen was an experienced open water swimmer, who regularly swam along the coastline of Jeffreys Bay.
He was often seen training in the canals of Marina Martinique, mainly in the summer months.
Burgert had the respect of the open water swim community as he was capable of swimming 3 km in under an hour, despite his age and also completed the JBay Swim Challenge in 2012.
This swim saw cold water sap the energy of the swimmers but Burgert was determined to finish and completed the 4 K distance in just under 2 hours.
Ironically, the route of the JBay Swim Challenge went right past the site of yesterday’s shark attack on Burgert.
IOL
Kayaker Terry Olivier, who tried to retrieve the body, said he was out on his sea kayak paddling from the Kabeljou side lower down the Point when he saw the man lying face-down in the water.
He saw the shark, which was “longer than my kayakâ€. He believed it was a great white.
“I tried to retrieve the body but the shark wouldn’t let go. I hit it with my oars, but it kept coming back for more bites,†he said.
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Russia 1:41.70 and a new world record in the mixed 4×50 medley
At the World Cup meet in Moscow today, Russia’s team of Sergey Makov (23.98), Andrey Grechin (26.90), Daria Tcvetkova (25.97) and Ekaterina Borovikova (24.85) managed to crush the mixed 4×50 medley world record, with a time of 1:41.70 beating Indiana University’s world record of 1:49.87 from September. This is an only recently recognized FINA event, so expect it to be broken again soon. See the result list here.
Final highlight of the day: Russia claimed the mixed 4x50m medley #worldrecord: 1:41.70! All #swc2013 results: http://t.co/sOsoIdMGx5
— FINA (@fina1908) October 12, 2013
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CC photo #649: Meilutyte after winning the 100 breast at BCN2013
Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte after winning the women’s 100 meter breaststroke at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Also in picture Russia’s silver winner Yuliya Efimova (in a pink cap, of course), and Denmark’s 4th placed Rikke Møller Pedersen. See the result list here.
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Ruta Meilutyte 1:02.36 and new World Record in the 100 meter SC breaststroke
At the World Cup leg in Moscow today, Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte scorched the Olympiisky pool, when winning the women’s 100 short course meter breaststroke final in a new world record time of 1:02.36. Old record was Rebecca Soni’s 1:02.70 from the Europe vs USA Duel in the Pool event in Manchester back in the supersuited days of December 2009. Read for instance SwimmingWorld
A video from the eventhttp://youtu.be/5u8Sjgu61nM
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THE SWIMMER / PLAUKIKÄ– – Official Trailer
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Ryan Lochte embraces Charlotte, new training routine
“Even with a cap and goggles, it’s hard not to notice Ryan Lochte. Take him out of the pool, and apparently, it’s even harder to miss him…”
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