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Grant Hackett has offered to mentor troubled swimming stars, including James Magnussen, to help the sport move forward from the London Olympics debacle.
“It would be getting together and talking and just opening up the dialogue, so we can understand what is going on. We’ve been through it all before ourselves, there’s a lot of wisdom there, there’s a lot of experience there that can be passed on to this current generation of swimmers.”
A poster on the door to the 16 meter pool in LeirvÃk, Faroe Islands, photo taking during the “Reysta-stevna 2013” age group meet today. No, I hadn’t arranged this, and was surprised to see that poster in a tiny town pool like LeirvÃk. Talk about inspiration :-)
Olympic icon Michael Phelps and basketball legend Michael Jordan teed-off for the 12th Annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational in Las Vegas on Thursday.
http://youtu.be/I8mMwpPR8sg
“Apparently Ryan Lochte the Olympian is so last summer– this year its all about Ryan Lochte the reality star!”
http://youtu.be/7CMIwHgfQzE
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In an adorable video posted to YouTube by the Oregon Zoo, a 2-month-old baby river otter named Molalla gets a swimming lesson from his mother, Tilly. She nudges Molalla close to the water before grabbing her pup by the scruff of his neck with her mouth and plunging into the water with him.
“This might look a little brutal to us,” the Oregon Zoo’s Becca Van Beek says on the video. “It’s kind of scary for us to watch, but it’s natural for them.”
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Jinja will go down in history as the first African city to host the Ice Swimming championships due May 11 at the Nile resort pool.
The championships will see the water temperature in the swimming pool lowered to about 10° C, a rare phenomenon in Uganda, for the championships to take place.
Swimmers will then take part in an individual 25m race before grouping up for the relay races in the ice cold pool waters.
– So that would be about 3°C warmer than the year-round ocean temperature here in the Faroe Islands. I’m tempted to say “we laugh at this” … but won’t ;-)
It is inspired (and exported) by the Swedish Skellefteå 2013 Winter Swimming Championships, read Painting The City Bright.
The technical meeting about to begin at the FINA 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, China.
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New Mexico State Police are investigating an explosive device found in the Blue Hole diving area in Santa Rosa.
At about 11 a.m. the swimmer called police to report finding what he believed to be a bomb in the recreation site popular with scuba divers.
Steve Backshall gets face to face with the world’s largest snake, underwater. Warning, British guy screaming in his diving mask.
