That Indiegogo funding campaign really worked, Anthony Ervin is now at $8,570 of the $10,000 goal with 23 days to go, his 2012 World Cup circuit expenses almost paid for, with him having to write ‘only’ 5 songs and send some 50+ postcards and other stuff from the tour.
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Chad also reveals his flat feet …
The Greek Swimming Federation have been ordered to pay 277,000 euros to 100m freestyle swimmer Tonia Machaira for wrongfully excluding her from the Athens 2004 Olympics on the grounds she had failed a drugs test. WADA confirmed that she had not failed the anti-doping test, as suspected by the Greek federation, she filed a suit for one million euros eight years ago, and now she got just over one-fourth of the amount she requested. “The bitterness remains the same,” Machaira told NovaSport FM radio. Read The Star
About two dozen ducks had reached adulthood without ever having the opportunity to swim. They (along with 100 other birds) were confiscated from an animal hoarder by the Ulster County SPCA and lodged with Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Of course, the flock was apprehensive about going into the water at first, but once one of them decided it was fun, the rest soon did as well. Read Neatorama
Justin Bieber swimming in a water tank full of sharks and beautiful women for a new video, but he admitted to ET’s Christina McLarty that the plunge wasn’t without some hesitation. See the Justin Bieber Zone
Walking or running in a full suit of samurai armour is not the easiest thing in the world. Swimming in it is even harder, behold the Kobori ryū samurai style combative swimming. Read for instance Japan Daily
Slovenia’s Matjaž MarkiÄ being greeted by countryman (and here bronze winner) Emil TahiroviÄ, after winning the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships men’s 50 breaststroke in a then new championship record of 26.47. See result list here
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