You can’t swim with alligators in any other zoo or wildlife park in the world but now you can in Kilkenny. The Reptile Village Zoo in Gowran is offering a chance for people to get out of their comfort zone and into a tank with two American Alligators – no safety cage and no corks on the teeth either. ‘Battle’ and ‘CC’ are both around nine feet in length and have about 150 teeth between them. Read Kilkenny People
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Swimmers stage “swim in” in protest against plans to close the Newcastle City Pool
Hundreds of people have been protesting against the government cuts in Newcastle. Swimmers turned out to stage a “swim in” in protest against cost cutting plans to close the City Pool in Newcastle. Read more here on ITV and watch their videos on Vimeo.
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CC photo #392: The Istanbul 2012 Gala Dinner menu
It was okay :-)
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Eamon Sullivan to face court next month
Olympic swimming star Eamon Sullivan will appear in court next month after an alleged incident at a hotel in Adelaide’s north in October.
At the time, police said a man had been reported for two counts of assault and one of disorderly behaviour at the hotel in Gawler.
Police say after a review of witness statements and CCTV footage he will only answer a charge of disorderly behaviour.
Read Yahoo7
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James Goddard turns to boxing to boost world championship hopes
Olympic swimmer James Goddard has turned to boxing world title hopeful Matthew Hatton to help him steal a length on rivals in the pool, aiming to get into the best shape of his career ahead of what could be his last FINA World Championships in Barcelona in July.
“It’s well known how hard boxers train but I never really realised until I got in the gym with them – it is quite incredible and very intense which is exactly the kind of environment I want.â€
Read Mancunian Matters
http://youtu.be/VqNQEs0qcAY
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Dagny Knutson retires again, this time because of the financial burden
Read The New York Times
Knutson stopped swimming a year ago to seek treatment for an eating disorder that she feared might kill her. She dropped out this month because her family’s savings were being siphoned by her medical bills and her college tuition. After losing her USA Swimming stipend, Knutson said, she did not have the money to finance her comeback.
Compounding the financial stress was the pressure she felt in the pool to meet everybody’s great expectations, a burden she shouldered throughout her teenage years, when she was a world champion and held an American record.
“Sometimes when I look back at myself in high school, and the years I had the most success, I don’t want to say I was clinically depressed, but I wasn’t genuinely happy,†Knutson said. “I look back now and I feel like I have to be like that to be good because that’s what worked at the time, and I don’t want to be that person.â€
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Schubert hired investigator to watch rival coach
Update: SwimmingWorld Magazine has obtained new details that dispute the claims in the OCR article mentioned below.
Eight-time U.S. Olympic swim coach Mark Schubert confirmed that he and longtime Orange County swim coach Bill Jewell were involved in the 2010 hiring of a private investigator to conduct surveillance of a rival Orange County swim coach suspected of having an improper relationship with a swimmer he was coaching, according to documents obtained by the Orange County Register. Read Orange County Register
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Behold A 14-Year-Old Boy Being Rescued During Flood
One of 20 water rescues in Queensland, Australia, across Thursday and Friday. Nature you scary.
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Dolphin “Asks” Divers For Help Removing Fishing Line
Amazing video from when a bottlenose dolphin with a fishing line in its mouth and wrapped around a pectoral fin came to a group of divers off Kona, Hawaii, looking for help. They managed to remove the line. See Geekologie