Courtesy of Keri-Anne Payne and Speedo UK, via the17thman
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Irish charity swimmer dies while crossing the English Channel
45-year-old Paraic Casey was only half a mile from the French shore when he took ill early this morning, having swum more than 20 miles from Dover in England, raising money for two charities. Michael Oram, chairman of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation, said: “Attempts were made by crew to resuscitate him before a French rescue helicopter arrived with medics who tried further resuscitation.” Read for instance The Guardian and Mail Online
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Take care what you wear at the London 2012 Games
Olympic sponsors are so adamant at protecting their rights that spectators wearing competing brands or clothes that promote competing brands can expect to be turned away.Games boss Sebation Coe warned anyone wearing a Pepsi T-shirt is likely to be booted out because it would upset sponsors Coca-Cola.
And he only said spectators in Nike trainers “could probably†be allowed in although Adidas are also backing the event.
Read The Daily Record, via Neatorama
Image courtesy of Andrew Tseng, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Police unlikely to charge Candice Alley
Off The Courier Mail:
But The Sunday Telegraph understands Alley is unlikely to be charged with any offence.
Buckets and Spades owner Zlata Relin said the store had spoken to Alley’s lawyers, who had promised to send a cheque for the cost of the items.
Ms Relin said she had asked police not to charge the mother-of-two. “We don’t want any publicity and if she goes to court this will go on and on,” Ms Relin said.
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What kind of crazy Aussie swim training technique is this ?
Matt Targett and Eamon Sullivan doing some kind of semi-dryland or shallow water training in the Manchester Aquatics Centre :-P See FoxSports
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The horrific consequences of being Aquaman
Straight facts on our favorite superhero, courtesy of Southern Fried Science, for instance on how Aquaman couldn’t survive the temperature even in the hottest ocean because he is way too thin:Aquaman is not just a human, he is an incredibly buff human. Look at his picture. If the man has more than 2% body fat, I’d be shocked. In contrast, warm-water bottlenose dolphins have at least 18 to 20% body fat. Anyone who SCUBA dives knows that, even with a 12 millimeter neoprene wet suit, after a few hours in 80°F water, you get cold. Aquaman, lacking any visible insulation, should have slipped into hypothermia sometime early in More Fun Comics #73. He is better built for the beach than the frigid deep.
Via Neatorama
Image courtesy of Corey Bond, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Life as a top notch surf photographer
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CC photo #204: Szép volt lányok
Hungarian spectators at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships applauding Boglárka Kapas and Éva Risztov for their gold and bronze medals in the women’s 800 freestyle (see result list here). According to Google Translate this means “Well done girls” or “beautiful girls” in Hungarian, in this case both answers most certainly apply :-)
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Water ski turn gone wrong (or totally right, maybe)
Russian title says ‘Gooooooooooool!’ :-)