A British artist will perform swimming pool acrobatics in the world’s first underwater wheelchair this week in London. Sue Austin, a wheelchair-bound artist, invented and helped create the prototype and she’ll be demonstrating what it can do at the London 2012 Festival Wednesday through Saturday. Read for instance Toronto Sun and the BBC
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Cute Koala crosses river, charms canoe crew
Koalas aren’t normally known for taking a dip, but one curious creature on Queensland’s Gold Coast wasn’t shy about exploring new terrain. See Arbroath
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Lego Swimming Olympics 2012 – a Kromo and Veldhuis tribute
Amazing stop motion animation skills here, celebrating the Dutch gold and bronze in the women’s 50 freestyle at London 2012. Created by YouTube user Bieele and 8-year-old son :-)
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Behold Captain the freediving dog
35 feet in one breath, probably the canine world record ! :-)
Here is him retrieving two frisbees in one dive, wow
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Blair Evans & Eamon Sullivan on Nova
Blair Evans and Eamon Sullivan dropped by the Nova studio to talk to Nathan, Nat and Shaun about post Games lifestyle. Classy intro, “Do you know how hard it was to follow you guys over at the Olympics without being able to say ‘Olympics’?” See NovaFM
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Eve and Candace on the Nathan Adrian / Matt Grevers bromance
Eve and Candace discuss the love shared between Nathan Adrian and Matt Grevers. Brace yourselves.
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Wayne Soutter makes history with North Channel swim
43-year-old South African Wayne Soutter has become the first person ever to swim from the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland to the north Antrim coast in Northern Ireland. Others have conquered the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, but none of them have crossed by the shortest and most treacherous route, from Kintyre. And it was tough, see the BBC, via NewsLetter.
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CC photo #241: Oldest and youngest, coach and swimmer
Yup, that is right, I’m blatantly pushing my kids into swimming. First day of swimming for our youngest, last Saturday, second year of coaching for our oldest.
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Lochte’s sister Megan apologizes for “racist” video
Ryan Lochte’s sister Megan Lochte is in hot water for making offensive remarks during a talk show appearance back in 2008, saying now it is misunderstood, that the “talk show” was actually a comedy skit. See US Weekly via BlackBook and Gossip Cop
This was not a real interview, and it in no way reflects my true feelings or persona whatsoever, The intent was to make fun of the ignorance of people who actually do not have an understanding of other cultures and speak in racist ways. The skit and my character were supposed to be making fun of ignorance … I do see how it was highly offensive to the viewer, but as seen by today’s widespread outrage, it clearly did increase awareness of the ignorance of those who are racist. … While the intent of the script was to shed light on cultural ignorance. I realize that in application it did offend people, and for that I apologize.