From yesterday, go see herning2013.com/
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Amazon’s Olympics have swimming too, only with piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles
Read The Guardian, via Neatorama
Poised on the starting blocks at the Olympics, the 15 swimmers had good reason to feel apprehensive. But the cause of their nervousness was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles lurking in the turbid waters below. […]
The swimming events all take place in the murky waters of the Loretoyaco river, a tributary of the Amazon. Waiting for her 100m freestyle race, Lina Castro, a 20-year-old member of the Tikun indigenous community, gazed into the water and considered the hazards. “When the race is about to start I need to be calm and not think about all the things that live in the river,” she said.
(Looks nice, the Rio Loretoyaco, photo courtesy of Dave Lonsdale, CC BY 2.0)
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Curious sea lion pup dives into night diving diver’s kayak
… and scares the bejesus out of him :-)
See PetaPixel
Scuba diver Rick Coleman was getting ready to jump into his kayak and head home, when a sea lion pup jumped up and sat himself (or herself) down on his bow.
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Grant Hackett offers to mentor troubled Aussie squad
Read CourierMail
Grant Hackett has offered to mentor troubled swimming stars, including James Magnussen, to help the sport move forward from the London Olympics debacle.
“It would be getting together and talking and just opening up the dialogue, so we can understand what is going on. We’ve been through it all before ourselves, there’s a lot of wisdom there, there’s a lot of experience there that can be passed on to this current generation of swimmers.”
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CC photo #462: Herning 2013 poster in tiny LeirvÃk, Faroe Islands
A poster on the door to the 16 meter pool in LeirvÃk, Faroe Islands, photo taking during the “Reysta-stevna 2013” age group meet today. No, I hadn’t arranged this, and was surprised to see that poster in a tiny town pool like LeirvÃk. Talk about inspiration :-)
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Michael Phelps joins Michael Jordan on the golf course for charity
Olympic icon Michael Phelps and basketball legend Michael Jordan teed-off for the 12th Annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational in Las Vegas on Thursday.
http://youtu.be/I8mMwpPR8sg
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Ryan Lochte calls Kim Kardashian a Role Model
“Apparently Ryan Lochte the Olympian is so last summer– this year its all about Ryan Lochte the reality star!”
http://youtu.be/7CMIwHgfQzE
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Molalla the baby otter learns to swim (with firm help from mom)
See Today
In an adorable video posted to YouTube by the Oregon Zoo, a 2-month-old baby river otter named Molalla gets a swimming lesson from his mother, Tilly. She nudges Molalla close to the water before grabbing her pup by the scruff of his neck with her mouth and plunging into the water with him.
“This might look a little brutal to us,” the Oregon Zoo’s Becca Van Beek says on the video. “It’s kind of scary for us to watch, but it’s natural for them.”
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Jinja set for Africa’s maiden ice swimming event
Read NewVision – Uganda’s Leading Daily
Jinja will go down in history as the first African city to host the Ice Swimming championships due May 11 at the Nile resort pool.
The championships will see the water temperature in the swimming pool lowered to about 10° C, a rare phenomenon in Uganda, for the championships to take place.
Swimmers will then take part in an individual 25m race before grouping up for the relay races in the ice cold pool waters.
– So that would be about 3°C warmer than the year-round ocean temperature here in the Faroe Islands. I’m tempted to say “we laugh at this” … but won’t ;-)
It is inspired (and exported) by the Swedish Skellefteå 2013 Winter Swimming Championships, read Painting The City Bright.