Just a photo from the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Those retro caps are awesome ! :-)
A family trip to Orlando Seaworld ends poorly for one little girl. Via SCAQ Blog
Awesome, Kaylene Peoples from Agenda Magazine interviews Ragnheiður “Ragga” Ragnarsdóttir , an Icelandic model and Olympic champion swimmer, and co-designer for Icelandic brand M-Design. Via the17thman
The Fitter & Faster Swim Tour presented by SwimOutlet.com
Fitter & Faster Swim Clinic from Fitter & Faster Swim Tour on Vimeo.
The Broad Ripple swimming pool in Indianapolis, Indiana was, in its day, the world’s largest concrete pool, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the mid-west and host to many of the nation’s top swimming meets. In this pilot for Swimming World Television, ISHOF’s CEO Bruce Wigo sets out to find this historic swimming pool.
The Irish Times reports that the exclusively male Sandycove Bathers’ Association will continue to ban women from its ranks, after having voted 24 to 17 not to allow women to join at a specially convened meeting. The Forty Foot in Sandycove has been available to men and women for the last 25 years, but a secluded section to one side of the Forty Foot has been a male preserve for years and nudity is widely practised. Read the Irish Central
(Photo courtesy of Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
A 61-year-old man from Oregon was attacked and injured by a 10-foot shark while snorkeling in Hawaii on Friday, authorities said. The shark bit the man’s left calf and he sustained a deep laceration, the doctors said he was lucky the bite didn’t hit any major arteries. Read ABC News
“It released me and I started swimming as fast as I could…as I went further and started to bleed, I could see I was trailing blood, which was my next concern,†Kennedy said.
