Switzerland’s Dominik Meichtry ready for the men’s 200 meter freestyle prelims at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He ended up 5th in the final the day after, see the result list here.
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Ideas For Change, Sylvia Earle
An Interactive infographic designed by the Global Agenda Council on Oceans in partnership with the Ocean Health Index will be hosted on the World Economic Forum homepage . See also worldoceansday.org
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Monaco ready for the 2013 Mare Nostrum
Coordinator Roland Trabaries detailing (in French) what to expect at the 31e Meeting International de Natation de Monte Carlo in Monaco this weekend.
Présentation du 31e Meeting de Natation Mare Nostrum
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CC photo #524: A young Pál Joensen at Rhodes 2007
Pál Joensen sporting a typical ‘Faroe tan’ at the Natwest Island Games in Rhodes, Greece, back in 2007. He won gold in the 200, 400 and 1500 freestyle, gold in the men’s 4×50 free, 4×50 medley and 8×50 free mix relay, plus a bronze in the men’s 4×100 medley. This year the Island Games are in Bermuda, for the first time ever without Faroese participation in the swimming events. See the result list here.
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Teen dies three days after being underwater for 30 minutes
Read for instance KATU and Oregon Live15-year-old Cesar Campuzano died at 7:35 a.m. on Thursday, three days after he jumped into the Willamette River at Rogers Landing Park in Newberg, Oregon. He remained underwater for 30 minutes until rescuers were able to pull him from the river.
Witnesses said Campuzano jumped off a dock into the river on Monday as he was playing with several other boys. He thought the water was shallow then panicked when he realized how deep it actually was.
“I know he couldn’t swim. I don’t know why he would jump in,” said friend Jesus Valdez. “We’ve gone to the river and we’ve asked him a lot to jump in and he’s responded to us with a ‘no.’ I don’t know why he decided to jump in that day.”
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Nick Juba on Danish opportunities and challenges
A video off svoem.dk, Denmark’s new national coach Nick Juba talking about opportunities and challenges for Danish Swimming. There is also a new (English-written) interview with him here on svoem.dk, where he answers four quick questions related to him coaching Jeanette Ottesen at the Mare Nostrum meet in Monaco, this weekend.
– I plan for Shannon to be very much in charge of the swimmers he coaches directly at Bellahoy, and my role will be to take an overview of these swimmers and offer different opinions and angles if needed. I will directly be looking after Denmark’s other top-class swimmers in Barcelona.
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“Swim Across America” Gearing Up to Make Waves Against Cancer
Swim Across America is a collection of open water and pool related swimming events, that raise millions of dollars every year for a variety of cancer treatment and cancer research programs. They are now getting ready to make waves against cancer with their 7th Annual Greenwich-Stamford Swim.
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Hollywood star and swim champ Esther Williams died today at age 91
Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91.
Esther Williams – The Million Dollar Mermaid
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Sports broadcasts might soon feature Matrix-style replays
Uh oh, read Gizmag
Along with its nihilistic cyberpunk style, the film The Matrix is famous for popularizing what’s known as “bullet time” photography. You know the shots where someone would run and jump, then they’d freeze and the camera would appear to track around them as they were frozen in mid-air? That’s bullet-time. Now, that same technology may be coming to live televised sporting events.
Multi-viewpoint robotic camera system creates real 'bullet time' slow motion replays #DigInfo