Michael Phelps capping off his legendary swimming career has been voted Sports Illustrated’s Best Sports Moment of the Year for 2012. Read 11 Alive
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Christmas Day Swim at Banna Strand, Co Kerry 2012
“In Aid of the Banna Sea Rescue Unit. Thanking you all for supporting a vital service in our local community. A special thanks to all the volunteers and swimmers who have made this a very special occasion.”
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Aberporth Boxing Day Swim 2012
Warning, Borat mankinis, NSFW outside of Kazakhstan :-P
“I made this video for the people who took part in the swim, I don’t know why they do it but it’s a bit of fun and this is a record for them. So this is just a record of the annual Aberporth swim 11 am on Wednesday 26th of December 2012 Aberporth is on the west coast of Wales The temperature was around 7°C (44/45°F) and as you can see from all of the umbrellas it was raining and it was blooming cold!”
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Don Warner’s Icy Antarctic Swim With Gentoo Penguins
At Neko Harbour (off Andvord Bay), Antarctic Peninsula (64°50′ South) Water temperature: 0.5°C Air temperature: 0°C 2012/12/05
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Christmas Swim in Scotland
Sometimes you just need to wear christmas hats and dive into freezing water… Why not? It’s Christmas!
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Woman injured in Hastings Christmas swim dies
A Hastings woman injured during a Christmas Day swim in the sea has died.
The lady was knocked off her feet by a wave and hit her head on a groyne at Hastings Beach about 10.40am yesterday.
Lifeboat crews pulled her unconscious body from the water before she was taken to hospital. She had been described as being in “poor health.”
Sussex Police confirmed today the woman had died.
Read The Argus
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CC photo #361: Photographer at work at Istanbul 2012
Just a photo of a photo from the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Olympic superagent Evan Morgenstein on how the techsuit ban hurt the sport of swimming
Read SwimmingWorld and listen to SwimmingWorld Radio from 41:50
Nathan: Evan you work with some of the biggest names in our sport of course legends like Dara Torres and Mark Spitz, but of course athletes these days and in London, we have got Cullen Jones and you worked with so many athletes that I would say the vast majority of deals that swimmers get come because of the work that you do. Now before we get into specifics can you give us just a general idea right now of how the market is for swimmers?
Evan: Oh it is terrible. I mean if you were a swimmer looking to make this a career. There could be a worse time to do it. You know unfortunately when the thieves at FINA made a decision that they were going to get rid of the techsuits. What they did was they almost bankrupted several of the swimwear companies and they have never recovered from that because they were so vested in that, but they actually hurt the sport and hurt the popularity of the sport. People love Olympics sports like swimming because of world records and although there were a couple of world records broken in London comparative to Beijing there was virtually no records broken and that is a shame. Technology changes in every other sport.
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Herm Island Christmas Day Swim 2012
Every Christmas day, the residents and visitors of Herm Island gather to swim at 11.00am. This year, Belvoir Bay was the venue as it is beautifully sheltered from the prevailing westerley wind.