The men’s 100 meter butterfly final at the FINA 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy. USA’s Michael Phelps leads with 5 meters to go, Serbia’s Milorad ÄŒavić on his shoulder, with Spain’s Rafael Muñoz and Venezuela’s Albert Subirats in close pursuit. Phelps wins in a new World record of 49.82, see result list here.
Highlights from the Crimson Tide’s swimming and diving meet against Delta State to open the 2012-13 season.
See also ‘Getting to know Alabama Swimming and Diving head coach Dennis Pursley’
University of Hawaii Swimming and Diving took on BYU this weekend and here is a little video to show you what the swim meet is like.
Oh my, just you wait ’till mama comes home !
Populist politician Beppe Grillo, the leader of Italy’s second-largest party, launched a local election campaign in Sicily in colorful fashion on Wednesday by swimming the treacherous Straits of Messina that separate the island from mainland Italy. Read Reuters
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.
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!
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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.
