Featuring Executive Director of FINA Cornel Marculescu, President of the All-Russian Swimming Federation Vladimir Salnikov, Representative of the FINA Technical Swimming Committee Andrew Vlaskov, Olympic champion Chad le Clos, 2012 World Cup winner Katinka Hosszu and others.
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Diana Nyad Finishes NYC 48-Hour Sandy Recovery Swim, Raises $103K
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Spectators whooped and cheered as the 64-year-old woman who swam from Cuba to Florida finished her 48-hour swim in a pool installed in a Manhattan intersection to benefit victims of Sandy.
Wearing a pink swim cap, Diana Nyad dove into the 120-foot, two-lane pool set up in Herald Square and began doing laps shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday.
She came out of the pool at 8:48 a.m. Thursday after raising a little more than $103,000 for the AmeriCares nonprofit health and disaster organization, according to the event’s website.
http://youtu.be/T3yc05pCAcY
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CC photo #648: European Swimmers of the Year 2009 on the Istanbul podium
A photo from the LEN 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Germany’s Paul Biedermann, Russia’s synchronized swimmer Natalia Ishchenko and Germany’s open water swimmers Thomas Lurz and Angela Maurer. Britta Steffen is missing on the photo, as the 2009 European female swimmer of the year.
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Moscow Swimming World Cup 2013 to be streamed LIVE on FinaTV
The next round of FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 meets starts tomorrow in Moscow, Russia, with live streaming on FinaTV. The competition times for the Moscow leg are as follows:
Saturday, 12 October
Start Time: 13:50 to 17:10 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start 14:21 GMT)Sunday, 13 October
Start Time: 14:00 to 17:15 GMT Main TX Day 2 (PGM start 14:30 GMT)The detailed competition schedules can be found here on fina.org, live timing on omegatiming.com.
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Halifax swimmer Dmitry Shulga receives 11-month suspension after testing positive for banned substances
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The 24-year old Shulga, a member of the Halifax Wavecutters swim club, tested positive in-competition during the Eastern Canadian swimming championships in Montreal last February.
His urine sample revealed the presence of prohibited stimulants, N-ethyl-l-phenyl-2-butanamine and 1-phenyl-2-butanamine, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) said in a release Wednesday.
Bette El-Hawary, executive director of Swim Nova Scotia, said the stimulants were not listed on a the label of a supplement that Shulga was taking at the time.
“Obviously our organization is concerned,†El-Hawary said in an interview on Wednesday. “There was some misleading information. Not all of the ingredients had been listed on the product that was purchased. Right now, as an organization, we are educating our members about the use of any substance.â€
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In Bangladesh, swimming pools provide lessons for life
In an effort to decrease drowning deaths, a programme in Bangladesh teaches young children to swim and surive in the water.
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In the Eye of the Gator: Men’s Swim Team
The University of Florida Men’s Swim team demonstrates their respective strokes via GoPro.
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CC photo #647: Impressive jump height at BCN 2013
You would think that 27 meters was high enough, but here is one who obviously needed a meter more.
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Underwater Research Robot Attacked by Great White Shark off Monterey
See mbari.org via Pete Thomas Outdoors. We will of course be following this epic Shark vs Bots battle closely.When the researchers pulled the long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (LR-AUV) from the water, they discovered large scrapes on its sides. At first they thought it had been damaged by a boat propeller, but when they looked closer, they discovered several large teeth embedded in the sides of the vehicle. In the top photo (by Jim Bellingham), instrumentation technician Thomas Hoover shows the width of the bite marks on the vehicle, which were probably created by a 12- to 15-foot-long white shark. The lower photo (by Todd Walsh) shows Jim Bellingham holding one of the shark’s teeth that was embedded in the LR-AUV. The aluminum shell and carbon-fiber fairing of the vehicle were badly scratched, but held up to the crushing bite—a testament to the design skills of MBARI’s engineers.
