Olympian Ian Thorpe supports the Join In weekend at Tooting Lido swimming pool from Robert 'BoB' McGowan on Vimeo.
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Michael Phelps Swim School
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CC photo #230: International team GoPro on Nólsoyarfjørð
A journalist from IMG / Trans World Sport filming Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal with a GoPro on a boom during the “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012” open water race from Tórshavn to Nólsoy on August 11th, 2012. Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Federation also filming her in the background with his, and me photographing the situation with mine. No, we’re not affiliated :-)
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D’Arcy, Monk defy media ban with holiday snaps
Controversial swimmer Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk could be in trouble with AOC officials yet again after the pair flouted a social media ban by posting photos of themselves holidaying in Croatia. Read more here on 9News
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Phelps & Bowman: A partnership like no other
“They forged one of the most unique relationships in all of sports, a coach who took the child of recently divorced parents under his wing at age 11 and nurtured him to greatness in the pool. Along the way, they’ve yelled and screamed at each other and butted heads from time to time. They also developed an enduring relationship that surely will last a lifetime, even with Phelps retiring after his final race of the Olympics on Saturday.”
Read Statesman
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Tracks HD headphones from SOL Republic, the choice of Michael Phelps
He wore them at the London 2012 Olympics, so let’s give them a shameless plug. Geeks verdict is Gold: “If they’re good enough for Michael Phelps, I figured that I’d give them a listen. I was pleasantly surprised, but regrettably they did nothing for my performance in the pool.”See ZD Net
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There you go, an inflatable water slide for your yacht
You need this, Freestyle Cruiser via Neatorama
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CC photo #229: Swimmers ready for “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012”
Open water swimmers ready for the swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy (the island ahead of them). Only about 5K in a straight line, but the current typically slings you way south (to the right on the picture) and then back again north so fast that swimmers sometimes have drifted clear off the island before being brought back on the other side. This year the currents were calm, though, and the path therefore relatively straight.
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Unidentified woman dies trying to cross the English Channel
The body of an unidentified Asian woman wearing a wetsuit has been found on a beach in northern France. Carrying a compass and energy food bars, spare clothes in a plastic pouch and smeared with vaseline, she is thought to have attempted to swim the 21 miles across the English Channel to Britain, when she drowned and was washed back ashore.
A Calais police spokesman added: ‘It may have been depicted in a fictional film, but this is the first time we have ever seen any illegal immigrant actually try to swim the channel.
‘Although there may have been successful attempts that we don’t know about.Read more here on the Daily Mail