Wow
http://youtu.be/4q_0YWum32Q
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Swimmer’s Ear
“Swimmers ear is an infection of your ear canal. Not using q tips and keeping your ear canal dry can help prevent these infections. Do not put things in your delicate ear canal that will strip out the protective wax.”
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How to get into pole dance move “The Swimmer”
In Manhattan Dance School by Alex Shchukin. Darn, why couldn’t we get some move with both feet on the ground!? :-)
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One synchronized swimmer makes quite a splash
The young man is making a name for himself on team with a large group of girls. Go Wyatt, you are braver that most boys!
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Henley Swim 2013
“Four Birds A Boating crew member Sarah Weldon competes in her first ever open water swim.” Really nicely made video!
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Business man drowns when held underwater during course to ‘overcome his fear’
Read Shanghaiist
Three men have been arrested after a company executive drowned in Guangzhou during an exercise in which he was repeatedly held underwater to help ‘overcome his fear’.
The man, surnamed Huang, had paid 30,000 yuan for the training course. The three organisers have been held by police for accidentally causing the death of the man. The men avoided being charged for murder because they were apparently too stupid to realise that holding someone underwater repeatedly could kill them.
3000 Chinese Yuan is about 4900 US Dollars, see Google
See also Shanghai Daily
Huang, the boss of a local company, participated in one section of the class designed to “overcome his fear.”
In this section, two tutors held Huang underwater in a swimming pool, only allowing him to take air every 30 seconds.
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CC photo #557: Istanbul 2012 women’s 100 back medal winners meeting the photographers
Just a photo from the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Mie Østergaard Nielsen (DEN, silver), Olivia Smoliga (USA, gold) and Simona Baumrtova (CZE, bronze), see the result list here. Fun trying to ‘catch a flash’ :-)
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Ian Thorpe swimming in the cool waters of the Bosphorus
Photo of Ian Thorpe swimming in the ‘cool waters of the Bosphorus’, when backing the 2013 Bosphorus Cross-Continental open water swim in Istanbul and the Istanbul 2020 Olympic bid.
Ian Thorpe Boğaz'ın serin sularında! pic.twitter.com/a4dBQmGqFn
— Ä°stanbul 2020 (@istanbul2020TR) July 6, 2013
Hürriyet Daily News writes that even if he just swam a short ‘show swim’, he said it was really hard to swim against the current and in the sea that was so cold, the 10-time Olympic medalist shivering after 15 minutes.
National Olympic Committee has some interesting but for us non-Turkish speaking cryptic details (in Turkish) here about him not participating because of a shoulder injury?
Google translation:
‘A very difficult race. This is a unique organization, I am very happy to be. Reveals the importance of the Bosphorus in Istanbul Racing. Shoulder my injury, but I would love to compete there. Hopefully I’ll find the opportunity to contest the Bosphorus in the coming years’