“Watch as SportsXplorer Multimedia caught up with Jamaica’s own swim queen Alia Atkinson on her recent trip to Jamaica. The Olympic finalist spoke to us about her 2013 season, the much needed financial support to aid her preparation program in order to propel her to the next level, as well as being a role model to young Jamaican swimmers.”
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Korean Fans Furious Over Park Tae-hwan’s Treatment
Read The Wall Street Journal
South Korea’s national swimming federation is in hot water with fans of Olympic hero Park Tae-hwan.
The swimming superstar’s admirers flooded the Korea Swimming Federation’s online bulletin board with livid posts after the 22-year-old nicknamed “Marine Boy†spent an hour last week promoting health supplements on a home shopping TV channel–a type of appearance often seen as a sign that big-name celebrities are past their commercial prime and need cash.
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CC photo #447: A forest of cameras at Istanbul 2009
Way up under the roof, the video analysts at the LEN 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. I remember it as very hot.
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Sunrise : Geoff Huegill ready for Ellen
Edwina Bartholomew chats to Olympian Geoff Huegill, who is at Sydney Airport and is ready to greet Ellen DeGeneres. Via the17thman
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Oh crap, elderly man falls into toilet pit and spends hour swimming in shite
Read NY Daily News
Relatives didn’t immediately notice the senior citizen was missing from the tourist hot spot of Carters Lake in northwest Ga. By that time he had fallen into toilet pit and spent an hour covered in waste.
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Close, closer, closer…
“Short clip presenting the advantages of silent diving with no bubbles using a rebreather in regards to proximity to certain marine life when diving, most importantly when swimming with schools of fish.”
Close, closer, closer… from Bart Lukasik on Vimeo.
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Ryan Lochte departs Bootsy Bellows in West Hollywood
“In mid 2012, actor-turned-nightlife-impresario David Arquette took over Trousdale Lounge – a luxurious celebrity hotspot with the paparazzi perpetually planted out front – and turned it into Bootsy Bellows, a swanky vintage-style club with sexy burlesque dancers, erotic puppetry acts…and the paparazzi perpetually planted out front.” See partyearth
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CC photo #446: Knife seen while shopping in Croatia
For shredding the lettuce, I guess, this knife seen while on a shopping spree during the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. No, I didn’t buy it.
