Awesome! :-)
(Sonny William ‘Sonny Bill’ Williams is a New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer who has played both rugby union and rugby league. He currently plays rugby league for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League.)
(And apparently, it is a meme)
http://youtu.be/2rVlUz0F6uU
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Winner of the Olympic Games in London, Lithuanian swimmer Ruta Meilutyte has been selected as 2013 Best European Young (under 19 years) Athlete for the second year in a row, informs LETA/ELTA.
Meilutyte was voted in during the 42nd General Assembly of European Olympic Committees in Rome.
The sixteen year old swimmer received the Piotr Nurowski Prize (named after the President of the Polish Olympic Committee who died in the Polish Air Force plane crash in Russia in 2010) and a EUR 12,000 grant for training and studies.
See wsvn.com
A South Florida woman is being hailed a hero after she rushed to aid a 4-year-old girl pulled from a swimming pool where, according to her family, she nearly drowned.
Relatives said Londyn fell in the community pool, located at 6394 NW 26th St., in Sunrise, just before 2 p.m. Saturday.
Shaunna McWilliams, who is credited with saving Londyn, said she was inside her apartment when she heard someone screaming for help. She said she ran outside to find Londyn’s aunt pulling the little girl from the pool. “I’ve seen them bringing the baby out of the pool, so I just walked over to make sure everything was OK,” she said.
The reactions in the pool a moment after the women’s 100 meter freestyle final at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. From top to bottom 8th placed Alena Popchanka (FRA) in lane 8, 6th placed Sarah Sjöström (SWE) in lane 7, bronze winner Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) in lane 6, European champ Marleen Veldhuis (NED) in lane 5, 4th placed Hanna-Maria Seppälä (FIN) in lane 4 and bronze winner Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) in lane 3. See the result list here.
BTW, recently retired Veldhuis is now emigrating to Australia with her family, see RTL Nieuws
With no water yet in the Herning 2013 European SC arena, Mie had to get some flash mob help from friends at the fire station ! :-P
http://youtu.be/DVrwTcb7c_A
See swimsportsnews
The German Swimming Federation has appointed 16 women and 15 men to represent Germany at the European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, including veterans Marco Koch and Steffen Deibler, but not Paul Biedermann.
See RT
“The Olympic torch’s odyssey around Russia reached new depths as it dived into the world’s biggest freshwater lake, Lake Baikal in Siberia. Divers took the burning torch to the bottom of the lake – another first for the Olympic relay.”
http://youtu.be/5EunQIQxk4M
“A Sisyphean swimmer toils relentlessly against the current. His single stroke, trapped in an endless glitch of video, pulls a moment into a string of moments, into a night of moments. This capsule of time, his personal bubble of nowness, ends only with each sunrise.”
“2 minute promotional video for Tiki Swim athletic event using Final Cut Pro for IMCP class project.”
