Russia’s Yuliya Efimova on the medal podium at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. It was a good meet for her, with this silver in the women’s 100 meter breaststroke, plus gold in the 50 and 200. See the result list here.
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CC photo #614: Yannick Agnel on top of the BCN2013 medal podium
French swimmer Yannick Agnel with fist in the air on the medal podium after winning the men’s 200 meter freestyle at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Also in picture, USA’s silver winner Conor Dwyer and Russia’s bronze winner Danila Izotov. See the result list here.
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8 Insane Things You Can Do Underwater
Courtesy of Buzzfeed
“Underwater has never been this cool”
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Whole World calling on injured triathlete Camilla Pedersen
Read Jyllands-Posten (in Danish)“It’s been a storm without equal. It has gone around the world, and my phone has been red hot since Tuesday, says Michael Krüger, national coach of the Danish Triathlon Federation, now at third day waiting for news about the Danish European champion Camilla Pedersen, who crashed her bike Tuesday night.
Camilla Pedersen suffered serious injuries in the back of the head, including a fractured skull and internal bleeding, even though she wore a helmet. She was put in artificial coma at Odense University Hospital, where she both Tuesday and Wednesday was on the operating table.
“She’s still in a critical state, but reasonably stable at the moment, ” says Michael Krüger Friday morning, who as a personal trainer for Camilla Pedersen is very touched by the situation. “Doctors say that the first 72 hours are the most difficult in this kind of injuries. There have also been ups and downs, but tonight we have over the first three days, ” said Michael Krüger.
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500 feet below ice – Stig Severinsen sets new Guinness World Record
Yesterday on a single breath of air, Stig Severinsen sets a new official Guinness World Record by diving 500 feet (152.4m) below the ice in a frozen lake in East Greenland where nobody has ever been diving before!
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Beneath the Peel: Behind the scenes with the Dutch Swim Team
“Great ‘behind the scenes’ footage taken from a recent photoshoot with the Dutch Team in Rome. Watch as Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Jacco Verhaeren and the rest of the team get made-up for the shoot! Looking good guys!”
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Widow Of Columbus Man Says He Completed Cuba To Florida Swim First
Via the17thman
“While the world celebrates marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida, a Central Ohio woman said her husband completed the same journey nearly 35 years ago. Faye Poenisch, widow of Walter Poenisch, said her husband completed the same swim at the age of 68. Walter Poenisch began marathon swimming at the age of 49. A baker and rodeo man by trade, Walter bet a restaurant owner in Jamestown, New York, that he could beat him.”
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‘Pipin’ Ferreras to attempt “no-limits†freedive world record a decade after wife’s death
More than a decade ago, record-setting free diver Francisco “Pipin†Ferreras of North Bay Village lost his wife, Audrey Mestre, when she drowned attempting to exceed his world depth mark in a plunge to 561 feet off the Dominican Republic. […]Ferreras, now 51, retired from competitive diving after his wife’s death. He dissolved his company, the International Association of Free Divers, and did some photography and promotions work.
But now he is announcing a comeback: an attempt in 2014 to break the “no-limits†world record of 702 feet set by Austria’s Herbert Nitsch in 2007 off Greece.
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CC photo #613: Nepal taking a group photo at BCN2013
Just a photo from the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. The Nepalese swimming team taking a group photo up on the medal podium. Awesome phone cover, btw.
