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David Blaine “dressed for dinner” with a great white
Behold the illusionist / endurance artist David Blaine swimming with great whites all dressed up. An illusion? Via Huffington Post
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CC photo #166: Hetland looking a bit beat at Rijeka 2008
Norway’s Aleksander Hetland after the men’s 100 breaststroke semi-finals at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. See result list here.
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Swim the Island
A promo for the “Swim The Island” event in Italy on 22 September 2012. Tempted?
Swim the Island from Alessandro Beltrame on Vimeo.
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9-year-old Jordan Freer makes Alcatraz swim
Last month 9-year-old Jordan Freer made the 1.5-mile swim from just off the shore of Alcatraz Island to Crissy Beach as part of the Orca Alcatraz Swim Challenge. Jordan is thought to be the youngest ever female to brave the chilly waters. Read Auburn Journal.
“It was cold and it was really, really choppy,†Freer said. “Sometimes it was hard to breathe because we were swimming freestyle and you turn your head to breathe and sometimes if you turned it at the wrong time then you would just get a mouth full of water.”
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Sette Colli 2012 day 1: Van Der Burgh sets meet record
At the Seven Hills Trophy meet in Rome today, South Africa’s Cameron Van Der Burgh set a new meet record in the men’s 100 breaststroke, clocking 1.00.39 well under the Olympic qualifying standard of 1:00.79. Italy’s Federica Pellegrini won a tight tussle against Denmark’s Lotte Friis in the women’s 400 freestyle, 4:06.03 to 4:06.15, and the women’s 50 freestyle had 5 swimmers under the Olympic qualifying standard of 25.27. See all results here.
Top 3 finishers today plus Nordic finalists
Women’s 400 free – Olympic Qualifying Time 4:09.35 (Olympic Invitation Time 4:18.07)
- Federica Pellegrini (ITA) 4:06.03
- Lotte Friis (DEN) 4.06.15
- Martina de Memme (ITA) 4:09.55
- Pernille Blume (DEN) 4:22.71
Men’s 400 free – OQT 3:48.92 (OST 3:54.13)
- Gabriele Detti (ITA) 3:49.27
- Andrea Mitchell D’Arrigo (ITA) 3:51.72
- Oussama Mellouli (TUN) 3:51.73
- Mads Glæsner (DEN) 3:51.88
- Anders Lie (DEN) 3:55.95
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What happens when you crack an egg 20 meters underwater?
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences presents “The Egg”, a video short from the 2011 BIOS Explorer program’s “Water Moves” series. For more information about why the egg behaves like it does, as well as further videos in the series, visit www.bios.edu
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Last places on Danish Olympic team to be decided at Sette Colli
The Danish Swimming Federation states here that this weekend’s Seven Hills Trophy meet in Rome is the final chance for Danish swimmers to be selected for the London Olympics, possible additional swimmers Katrine Holm Sørensen (200 IM), Jakob Andkjær (50 free) and Chris Christensen (400 IM). Most of the already selected team will use this star-studded meet as training, Mie Ø. Nielsen and Pál Joensen though having gone straight home from altitude in Flagstaff to finish some exams and whatever. Rai Sport 2 is broadcasting, but their webcast seams to be limited to Italy only.
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2012 US Swim Trials Mutual of Omaha Building Display
Wow, The 3D display on the Mutual of Omaha Home Office to celebrate the 2012 US Swim Trials and our sponsorship of USA Swimming. Via SwimmingWorld on Twitter.