The Olympic swimmer gets cozy with a famous celeb. Find out who it is … or check out his Twitter account
Me and beautiful carmenelectra my biggest crush since childhood. Finally meeting her. #jeah instagr.am/p/WgY8ApBGmC/
— Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) March 6, 2013
“Bondi Events – One of the events at Bondi in January 2013 was the North Bondi Rough Water Ocean Swim. This video was taken about Bondi Beach on 13/01/2013 and show’s the start of one of the heats.”
Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi gold winner in the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. I sat beside her mother, which might explain why she’s looking this way. See the result list here
Confession time – Once upon a time, I gave in and allowed my (teenage) swimmers to try this on the insulating swimming pool cover, after they had been begging for weeks. It was really, really fun, arranging relays and stuff on ‘dryland’ across the pool, right up until one of them went through the (old and battered) cover. He went right through and disappeared, it was still pretty funny and I guess not that dangerous … but the cover was wrecked.
So, the next morning, I had to call the janitor and explain. Not at all as fun as running on that (expensive) piece of rubber. You’ve been warned.
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Images of a giant anaconda being photographed underwater created a stir this week on Facebook Brazil. After the amazing images were posted and shared, many Facebook users posted comments doubting the authenticity of the photographs.
Biologist Daniel De Granville, who took the pictures, assured the G1 network that the images of the huge reptile, which he estimated to be about seven meters (23 feet), are genuine and that he captured them in the Formoso River, in Bonito, 300 km (186 miles) from Campo Grande.
Via Neatorama
Broadcasters around the world are experimenting with mounting cameras on referees, to get a new and really in-game video angle. Now, in swimming we already have really nice video angles when the professional TV crews roll in … but maybe an idea for when we want to arrange our own (and low-cost) video streaming?
See for instance…
Rugby
Ice Hockey
Red White Game RefCam Highlights from griffinshockey on Vimeo.
Martial Arts
Via PetaPixel
“Dive trip to Anacapa I did back in August 2012. Loved the big animals and Kelp Forrest.
Shot on the GoPro Hero 2 with a dive housing and Sola 800 Video light for fish. Cut on FCPX with minimal color work.”
Anacapa from Chris Aran on Vimeo.
Heidi, a four-year-old continental giant rabbit, has had sessions in a heated pool while wearing a lifejacket, to relieve her from the pain from arthritis in her hips and knees and spondylosis in her neck. Hydrotherapy pool owner Linda Prove admitted she was sceptical when a vet referred the rabbit, but the treatment was “working incredibly well”. See BBC via Cute Overload
(Streamlining rabbit ears for swimming. Never seen that one before !! :-D )
“Greg Carter on location in Irvine California with Rebecca Soni an American competition swimmer who is a breaststroke specialist and six-time Olympic medalist. She currently holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke (short course) and the 200-meter breaststroke (short and long course), and is the first woman to swim the 200-meter breaststroke in under 2 minutes 20 seconds. As a part of the American team, she also holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay (short and long course). In total, she currently holds five world records.”
Greg Carter – “Behind the scenes photoshoot” from NUVISIONS STUDIO on Vimeo.
