Underwater ice hockey (also called sub-aqua ice hockey) is an extreme sport played upside-down underneath frozen pools or ponds, where participants wear wetsuits and flippers and use the underside of the frozen surface as playing area for a floating puck. Finland won the first Underwater Ice Hockey World Championships held in Lake Wessensee in Austria in 2007, and now Austria the second held in 2013. See facebook.com/IcehockeyUnderIce
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Victoria’s Secret Swim 2013: Meet the Fabulous Bikini!
“Check out the most fabulous and flirtiest swim silhouette of the season in this hot new video, featuring Victoria’s Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo.”
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Wildeboer: Our Olympic team was too inexperienced
Now former Danish head coach Paulus Wildeboer has some interesting comments in what Sporten.dk calls ‘his last interview with Danish media’, that the Danish team with the exception of Mie Ø. Nielsen is too old to last until Rio 2016, and that is most likely was lack of Olympic experience that limited the Danish swim team from winning medals at the London 2012 Olympics.
– ‘We discovered it and fought with it during the preparations for the Olympics, and during the Games themselves. To have success at the Olympics, it is necessary to have a team where 70 percent has experience from previous Olympic Games. This goes for both swimmers and technical staff. We were not even close to 20 percent. When we then ran into problems – not big problems but any problem gets magnified during the Olympics – we didn’t react in the proper way. That is probably why we ended up with 8 finals, 2 fourth places and no medals. Personally, I’m afraid that this will be very hard to change these next 4 years.’
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Winter Camp 2013 Polar Bear Swim
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High School Swimmer Saves Teammate’s Life During Practice
Read wkbw.com. The way I see it, they shouldn’t have been doing those dangerous drills, especially since only one had received life saving training. But happy story nevertheless.
Charlie Cain, 17, never thought he would need the life saving training he received from the American Red Cross. He took the lifeguarding class in preparation for his pre-med dreams.
However, Thursday afternoon at his swim practice, Cain’s skills were put to the test.
The Peoria Notre Dame Varsity swim team had been working on how long they could hold their breath and how many yards they could swim while doing it.
Alex Bousky, 16, was working to break some records when he pushed himself a little too far. Bousky passed out after his 75th yard and suffered a seizure in the bottom of the pool.
When swimmer Grant Streid noticed Bousky was nowhere to be seen, Cain sprang into action jumping in the water and carrying his teammate to safety.
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Ruby TV with Ian Thorpe in Cannes for his doco ‘The Swimmer’
“There is an excerpt of this Ian Thorpe interview in our MIP 2012 reportage, but we thought we’d share just a bit more of Ian with you for those less interested in the industry chat beforehand…”
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Australian Swimming’s “Toxic Culture”
“Two independent reviews into Australian swimming’s poor performance at the London Olympics have unearthed explosive details. Senior team members are accused of bullying, abusing alcohol and prescription drugs, and thus creating a “toxic culture.”
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The Harlem Shake (WA State Swim Style)
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The Harlem Shake (Women’s NESCAC Style)
“Sunday night finals…things got a little cray”