Nice to see the Italians getting excited too :-)
Intro EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP SHORT COURSE from NUOTO LIVORNO Channel on Vimeo.
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SWIM ACROSS SYDNEY project 2014
“A lifestyle documentary highlighting the swimming facilities around Sydney by Graeme St John as he attempts to swim one lap in 40 different pools in one day.”
SWIM ACROSS SYDNEY project 2014 from TREVOR THOMAS on Vimeo.
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Maddy’s Olympic dream
“Maddy has a dream to swim in the Olympics. At age eleven she’s already rubbing shoulders with Olympians Nicole Livingstone, Linley Frame and Ash Delaney. With tips from these swimmers, she’s sure to be well on her way to achieving her goal.”
Maddy’s Olympic dream from ABC Open Sunraysia on Vimeo.
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Annual Thanksgiving Day Polar Bear Dip
“Van Dykes take a swim in Golden Pond”
Annual Thanksgiving Day Polar Bear Dip from Larry Van Dyke on Vimeo.
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British Swimming’s Swansea and Stirling training centres to close at the end of 2013
Read BBC
The Intensive Training Centres (ITCs) in Swansea and Stirling will shut after governing body British Swimming’s Olympic budget for Rio 2016 was cut.
UK Sport reduced funding by £4m after Britain’s swimmers failed to reach a target of five medals at London 2012.
Stockport’s ITC shut in February, but bases in Loughborough and Bath, which house more elite swimmers, are safe.
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Australia’s swim-with-whales tourism more lucrative than Japanese harpooning operations
Read The Age
Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the sub-Antarctic for the first time, sharply raising the stakes of Japanese whaling.
Until now, the Japanese “scientific” hunt, which kills minkes, was thought to harpoon whales that lived almost exclusively in the Antarctic.
But a satellite tracking program on dwarf minke whales, the focus of growing reef tourism, followed one nicknamed Spot deep into the Southern Ocean before its tag expired. Asked if these whales could be taken by the whalers, CSIRO environmental scientist Matt Curnock said: “We are very concerned about that, yes.
“In tourism, they are worth many millions of dollars more than they are in the Japanese whale-meat market.”
(Image courtesy of Heath Powell, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Teaching a Syrian Warlord to Swim
See The Daily Beast
Photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie, who was recently held captive in Syria for 81 days, recounts the surreal story of being forced to teach a Hawaiian swimsuit-clad local militia leader how to swim. ‘I was holding him like a baby for an hour,’ says Alpeyrie, ‘but by the end he could swim.’
http://youtu.be/XHsOrE2Ossg
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“Go on Becky! Swimmer wins TEN stars in first trial on I’m a Celeb”
See MailOnline
She may be an Olympic swimming champion, but it was sink or swim for Rebecca Adlington when she took part in her first ever Bushtucker Trial for I’m A Celebrity on Friday.
The blonde athlete, 24, was forced to undertake the Drown Under challenge, which saw her submerged in a tank filled with baby crocodiles and massive spiders.
But she emerged triumphant securing the full ten stars for camp. She said: ‘I’m absolutely buzzing. My first trial, ten stars, I couldn’t be more happy.’
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Rock Quarry Turned Into Luxurious Home Swimming Pool
A beautiful 50-acre estate in the heart of the Berkshires has one unique feature: a luxurious, heated, self-cleaning pool that was converted from an old limestone rock quarry.
