TV commercial featuring Chinese swimming star Sun Yang. This commercial was filmed on the Gold Coast, Australia facilitated by Taxi Film Production for Tribe in Shanghai.
361 Swimming TVC featuring Sun Yang from Taxi Film Production on Vimeo.
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Cullen Jones’ cause hits close to home
U.S. Olympic medalist Cullen Jones nearly drowned as a child. Today’s he’s one of the world’s best swimmers, and is using his status to encourage more kids to learn how to swim. Cronkite News reporter Amber Harding has the story.
Silver swimmer’s cause hits close to home from Cronkite News on Vimeo.
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Shawn Hook – So Close (2012 Olympics Theme Song)
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Meet The Families with Speedo
Speedo Athlete’s Friends and Family Day. Awesome.
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Liquipel makes iPhones waterproof for $60
Awesome, via InRumor
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Positive drug tests at the Summer Olympics, 1968 – 2012
The Economist has this interesting chart over positive drug tests at the Summer Games up until August 1st 2012, and adds in the article from August 2nd that until then, “two athletes, an Albanian weightlifter and an Uzbek gymnast, have so far been ejected from the London Olympics for failing drugs tests.” Makes you think, eh?
(and if anyone wonders, John Leonard is mentioned, at least twice)
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The London 2012 women’s 10K Marathon Swim is tomorrow
Thursday August 9th, and Open Water Source has this great website ready for us, complete with real-time commentary on Twitter and stuff. Go Paine!
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Michael Jamieson looks back on his Olympic silver
Olympic silver medallist swimmer Michael Jamieson is convinced he has what it takes to become a record breaker.The Scot claimed a shock second place in the 200m breaststroke in London, only missing out on gold thanks to a world-record swim by Hungarian Daniel Gyurta. Read the Daily Record
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“Ryan Lochte is Terrible At Interviews” goes viral
Doub, I threw this video in the garbage bin back then because it was, well, garbage. But now with almost 2 million views since August 1st, I guess it’s news, via Yahoo! Sports