Swimmers Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen came out the big winners at the recent 2012 China Central Television Sports Personality Awards.
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CC photo #390: Katinka Hosszú after winning the Istanbul 2012 women’s 100 IM
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú happy after winning the women’s 100 meter individual medley at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. See the result list here.
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1 kg of this polymer could turn an Olympic pool to jelly
Dutch researchers have developed a gel-forming polymer so effective that a kilogram of the stuff sprinkled across an Olympic sized swimming pool would turn the entire thing to jelly. All you have to do is add a little heat, which is sort of the opposite of what you normally do with gels. -
How long could you swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool?
An interesting science blog post here on What if?, via Chron
What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? How long could I stay safely at the surface?
Read it to the bottom, there’s a cheeky joke hidden there :-)
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CC photo #389: Fabio Scozzoli 2012 World Champ in the 100 Breaststroke
Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli on top of the FINA 2012 World Championships (25m) medal podium in Istanbul, Turkey, after winning the men’s 100 breaststroke in 57.10. To the left silver winner Damir Dugonjic from Slovenia (57.32) and to the right Kevin Cordes from the United States of America (57.83). See the result list here.
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Feeding Wild Swimming Monkeys
“One of the best tours near Bangkok”
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Michael Phelps Rebounding With Jasmine Waltz
Ahem, Phelps … sex-tape-alert !
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Swimming tigers at Australia Zoo
“Check this out! Tigers love water and our Tiger Keepers have taken some amazing footage with a GoPro camera of our gorgeous big cats playing in their pool.”
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IAMD: MU Womens Swimming
“Recruitment video for the Mansfield University Swim Team!”