“Check out this sneak peek of “Swim Fingers” airing Tuesday November 12th as part of Daily Planet’s “Race To..” Week starting Monday November 11th, 7ET only on Discovery Canada.”
http://youtu.be/Ke0D4aFt4IA
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Tiger cubs swim test
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Swimming With the Shark Whisperer
ABC News’ Matt Gutman talks with a man who believes sharks are deeply misunderstood.
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CC photo #675: Different body types at Istanbul 2012
So these two must be Germany’s (in orange) Johannes Dietrich and (in black) Marco di Carli (?) preparing themselves for the men’s 4×50 freestyle final at the LEN 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. A lot bad has been said about the supersuits, but they were also the great equalizer. Behind them Frédérick Bousquet from France. See the result list here.
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Le Clos eyes Phelps swimming records after Olympic feat
Read AFP
Chad Le Clos famously out-touched Michael Phelps to win Olympic butterfly gold and he said he now wants the great American’s world records after setting a new shortcourse mark in Singapore.
The South African caused a sensation last year in London when he beat the most successful Olympic athlete of all time by five-hundredths of a second in an epic 200m butterfly race.
Now Le Clos said he hoped to snatch the retired Phelps’s 100m and 200m butterfly records, set in 2009, after lowering the 200m shortcourse record at the Singapore leg of the World Cup.
“My next goal is to break one of Michael Phelps’s long-course records, eventually, maybe next year at the Commonwealth Games, or in 2015 at the world championships in Russia,” he said.
Image courtesy of Jennifer Su, CC BY 2.0
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China suspends Olympic champion Sun Yang from all competition and training
See Xinhua News via SwimmingWorld
China’s double Olympic champion Sun Yang has been suspended from all competition and training, announced the Chinese Swimming Administrative Center (CSAC) on Wednesday.
Sun was “suspended from all the competitions at home and abroad; suspended from the training of the national swimming team; and suspended from all the social and commercial activities involving the national team”, the CSAC said in the statement.
The CSAC also said they “fully supported” Hangzhou police department’s decision to give him a seven-day detention for driving without a license in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province.
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Jeanette Ottesen and Bobby Gray separate after two years of marriage, ten years together
In a press release sent out today, Jeanette Ottesen Gray and Bobby Gray announce that they have filed for legal separation, after being married since August 2011, and before that a couple for the past 10 years. Read for instance Ekstrabladet (in Danish).
“We chose to announce it now so that I can have peace to prepare for the European Championships on home soil in Herning in December. We still talk, and Bobby is part of the Danish swimming community, and will probably be in Herning cheering at the Europeans,” says Jeanette Ottesen Gray.
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Olympic Champion Kosuke Kitajima to be a dad
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Ryan Lochte leaves 200% tip at fancy restaurant
Breaking news all over the gossipsphere – After dining at the Andiamo Italian Steakhouse in Las Vegas last week, Ryan Lochte added a $606 tip on top of a $314 tab, apparently because of having won big at a roulette wheel before dinner.
His friends at TMZ suspect it might have been of him being bad at math. They so nice (and cheap).
Let’s have one more, just to calm down again
http://youtu.be/rYUolwOxrII
