Despite all-time Olympic medal winner Michael Phelps saying this is his last Olympics, the future of the U.S. team looks bright. Terrell Brown speaks with Time magazine senior writer Sean Gregory for the latest from London. See CBS News
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CDC confirms amoeba infection killed Lily Lake swimmer
Tests confirm that an amebic infection is what killed a 9-year-old boy days after he went swimming in a popular lake in Stillwater. Read more here on myfox9.com
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CC photo #228: These Santas sure come from Greenland
Just look at their suits! A gang of Santa Clauses seen during the 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin in Poland, between our hotel and the pool.
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Video from “Ólavsøkusvimjingin 2012”
Behold, our footage from the 400 meter open water race along the main pier of Tórshavn on our national holiday “Ólavsøka“. The laughing along the route is mostly because me and Bartal had totally underestimated how fast we had to run, if our plan of one filming while the other ran should work.
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Faulty swimming pool light suspected of almost killing girl
A faulty underwater light is suspected of shocking and nearly killing a 15-year-old Garden Grove girl swimming in her family’s pool. Her father, a dentist, is certified in CPR, and worked on his daughter until the paramedics arrived, most possibly saving her. Read for instance Los Angeles Times and KTLA
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‘Underwater’ now officially a word according to Merriam-Webster
The latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary adds these top-25 new words and definitions, including ‘bucket list’, ‘cloud computing’, ‘earworm’, ‘f-bomb’, ‘mash-up’ and ‘underwater’. The dictionary definition for ‘underwater’:
- lying, growing, worn, performed, or operating below the surface of the water
- being below the waterline of a ship
- having, relating to, or being a mortgage loan for which more is owed than the property securing the loan is worth
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German London Olympic coach in court on sex charges
A German London 2012 Olympic swimming coach is facing 18 counts of sexual misconduct with an underage swimmer between August, 2004 through March, 2006, see SwimmingWorld Magazine. The 40-year-old apparently defends himself with the girl having been 16 at the time of their first sexual contact, the court now having to clarify whether their relationship was that of a coach and swimmer or not. The German Olympic bosses were totally surprised by the news, Olympic chief Michael Vesper saying ‘If we had known about the incident, he would not have been selected’. Due to German privacy laws, the coach’s name and the name of the woman are being withheld, but if you search a little, you’ll find his name and workplace and even blurred out photos from the court room, and learn that he was coach of at least a couple of famous swimmers, with links to his swim club (and profile). His first international assignment for the DSV were the Debrecen 2012 Europeans in May, now he faces a possible 4 years of jail.
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George Haines and Fred Schmidt on the Butterfly
At the 1961 AAU National Swimming and Diving Championships, George Haines describes the butterfly technique to Bud Palmer while high school sensation Fred Schmidt demonstrates. Fred won gold at the 1964 Olympic Game, later became a Navy Seal and helped recover several Apollo space crafts on their return from the moon.
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