Michael Phelps has signed a long-term contract with a company whose only water product is a black-and-white striped umbrella.
That’s right. The 22-time Olympic medalist is hitching his wagon to the good folks at PING for the time being.
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CC photo #397: Jeanette Ottesen Gray enters the Istanbul 2012 arena
Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen Gray ready for the women’s 50 meter butterfly final at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. She ended up winning bronze in 25.55, see the result list here.
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Shannon Rollason (AUS) new head coach of the Danish NTC
The Danish Swimming Federation announces this morning that they have hired 40-year-old Shannon Rollason as their new head coach of the National Training Center in Copenhagen. Rollason is renowned for among other things his work with Jodie Henry and Alice Mills, gold medalists of the Athens 2004 Olympics, and comes from a similar position at the Australian Institute of Sports. Read svoem.org (in Danish)
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CC photo #396: Yukihiro Takahashi enters the Istanbul 2012 arena
Japan’s Yukihiro Takahashi ready for the men’s 200 meter breaststroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. He ended up 8th in 2:04.92, see the result list here.
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Bill Sweetenham temporay high performance coach of New Zealand
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Sweetenham, who oversaw the emergence of Australian legends Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett before six contentious years as high performance director of British swimming, will take up a short-term role on February 8.
Swimming New Zealand said 62-year-old Sweetenham, who reviewed the organisation’s high performance structure in 2008, will be initially contracted as a high performance coach until the national championships in mid-March.
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Measure distance in pools in Google Maps
Under Maps Labs in Google Maps, which can be found in the lower left corner, is a measuring tool that can be activated. You can choose the geeky option and measure the distance based on the size of Olympic swimming pools, for example. The English Channel is at least 822 pools in width :-)
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Li Zhesi Banned For EPO Positive
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Following our report and questions in December and pressure from USA Swimming, FINA today imposed a ban on Li Zhesi, the Chinese teenager who at 16 last March 31 tested positive for EPO.
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CC photo #395: Marie Kamimura (JPN) enters the Istanbul 2012 arena
Japan’s Marie Kamimura ready for the women’s 200 backstroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. She ended up fourth in 2:04.22, see the result list here.
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The Underwater Realm: Five-minute movies that are obsessed with Atlantis
“Film director David M. Reynolds is obsessed with the fabled island of Atlantis. He’s so obsessed that he spent the past two years working practically nonstop (and with barely any budget) on five short films collectively called The Underwater Realm. In each of these four-to-five minute shorts, humans come into contact with Atlanteans, from a slave thrown overboard during the height of the Roman empire to a modern-day couple who are mysteriously snatched while exploring an underwater cave. They’re all now freely available on the web for anyone to see. And if all goes well Reynolds hopes that the shorts will lead to three feature-length underwater movies that revolve around Atlantis.”
Read National Geographic