Swimmers from I guess Saint Lucia taking photos with the mascots at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Behind Scenes: World Championships – Istanbul 2012
“Here we’re taking a look behind the scenes at the 2012 World Swimming Championships (SC) in Istanbul, Turkey. There was quite the marshaling process, to see the full blog head to (after 7pm pacific tonight) pozzswim.ca”
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The Harlem Shake (Guyana Swim Team Style)
Is that … The first national team version ?!?
http://youtu.be/C6Xe0c-W1LI
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Swimming Pool Jump Fail
That sounded a bit Australian, eh?
http://youtu.be/9jNBvhXlWn8
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Hannah Miley looks ahead to the 2013 British Gas International Swim Meet
Many of the biggest names in world swimming will compete at the British Gas International Meet at the John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds, from 7th — 10th of March 2013. World short course champion Hannah Miley looks ahead to the first international swimming meet on British soil since the Olympics.
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Over 500 attend 44th annual Olcott Polar Bear “Swim for Sight”
Read wivb.com
The weather conditions weren’t particularly appropriate for swimming Sunday, but for many dedicated dippers, it was no problem at all.
The Olcott Polar Bear Swim for Sight took place in Lake Ontario where 573 hearty souls waded into the freezing water to raise money for a good cause.
Swim for Sight Chairman Bill Clark said, “They’re wading in the icy chunky water. They’re laughing and they’re coming up and saying, oh it was great.”
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CC photo #429: Medal presenters at Istanbul 2012
Traditional clothing always rules.
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News Anchor Can’t Handle The Swimming Cat Story
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Weight loss by (extreme) ice bathing ?
Read the Wired
Cronise got the idea back in 2008 while watching a TV program about Michael Phelps. The coverage claimed that, while training, the Olympic swimmer ate 12,000 calories a day. At the time, Cronise was on a diet of 12,000 calories per week. (He was carrying 209 pounds on his 5’9″ frame and wanted to get back down to 180.) Something didn’t add up. Even if Phelps had an exceptionally high metabolism and swam three hours a day, he still should have turned into a blob. Then it hit Cronise: Phelps was spending hours every day in water, which was sucking heat from his body. He was burning extra calories just to maintain his core temperature of 98.6.