According to Svenska Dagbladet, a new study at the Swedish National Centre for Research in Sports reveals that 5% of 500 Swedish athletes aged 25 has had sexual relations with his or her coach, not disclosing at what age these sexual relations happened, or whether they were hetero- or homosexual, only that the typical pattern is a younger girl having sexual relations with a male coach. The Ph.D student in charge, Susanne Johansson, is not surprised, “I myself have a background in sports, and know that it is not particularly uncommon. I had actually expected it to be more than 5%”. Johansson’s 5-year-long project will go on for another 3 years, now looking at the number of sexual offenses in sports, among other things.
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Man Tries to Cross the Irish Sea in Giant Hamster Wheel
Awesome, “Chris Todd has a dream: to walk from Wales to Ireland. His means of doing so is a paddlewheel raft that he made in his backyard. Alas, 9 hours into a projected 48-hour crossing, he had to stop because of technical problems.” But he’ll try again later this month, all for charity!
Via Neatorama
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Night Freediving for Lobster with Sony Action Cam
There is a new kid in town, the Sony Action Cam, here helped by a LED dive light to film night freediving for lobster. The camera guy comments that for now he still recommends the GoPro Hero 2, until Sony fixes some issues with no dive flat door and the camera not recording sound when filming at 60 fps.
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CC photo #285: Čavić being greeted on the Debrecen 2012 podium
Serbia’s Milorad ÄŒavić being congratulated after winning gold in the men’s 100 meter butterfly at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, see result list here. Officially retired today.
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The FitWet Jet Bike combines a stationary bike and a hot tub
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Liquipel-coated iPhone 5 gets soaked filming FlyBoard ad, and survives
According to Sparkhouse, their new ad for the FlyBoard from Fly Jet Sports was filmed entirely using an iPhone 5 coated in a water-resistant coating made by Liquipel.
Here’s the finished ad
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Lucas is ‘the biggest mouth in French swimming’, says Donze
Controversial coach Philippe Lucas will return to the France coaching setup for the duration of the European short-course swimming championships in Chartres next month after a five-year absence from the national fold. Read Business Recorder
National technical director Christian Donze
“He’s (Lucas) the biggest mouth in French swimming but above all a coach with experience and competence at the very highest level.”
Awesome, I wish I understood more French ! :-)
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Longest wave Surfed By a Dog
The longest wave surfed by a dog (open water) is 107.2 meters (351.7 ft), and was achieved by Abbie Girl (USA) at Ocean Beach Dog Beach, in San Diego, California, USA, on 18 October 2011.
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Felix Baumgartner to jump from space today
No I know, hopefully not swimming relevant, but I’m watching this crazy Swiss guy jumping from the stratosphere today, to freefall at the speed of sound after only 30 seconds. Live on YouTube, he is entering the capsule at this moment, jumping in about 2 hours.
UPDATE: The launch has been aborted for today, due to gusty winds.