Thursday at the 2012 US Master’s Spring Nationals, 95-year-old Anne A Dunivin set a US Masters national record, completing the 1000 yard freestyle in 50:44.12, first person across the nation to complete that distance in the 95-99 age bracket. Via digtriad.com
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CC photo #120: Roma09 poster at Fiumicino Airport
An Enel commercial greeting people arriving at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, back in 2009. Always nice to have these things greeting the swimmers.
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Reporter accidentally dunks $2000 (non-waterproof) microphone in water
Sweet, while filming a live segment for “Good Day Sacramento“, testing the durability of a waterproof iPhone case, reporter Melissa Cabral forgot that her $2,000 microphone was not similarly equipped, diving down to fetch the phone. Via The Clicker
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London 2012 must-see top-5 list includes the men’s 200 IM and 4×100 free
Nice, the Local 10 / Internet Broadcasting “5 must-see events at 2012 Olympics” includes not one but two swimming events, alongside the obligatory men’s 100m running event, the women’s gymnastics individual all-around, and the women’s beach volleyball final. Personally, I rate the classic marathon higher than at least the beach volleyball, and the men’s 400 freestyle above the 200 IM. But there you go.Image courtesy of pirano Bob R, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Freediving adventures in Iceland
Freedive UK took a small group of freedivers to experience some truly diving in Iceland, the land of fire and ice. Things that didn’t make the video: Eating rotten shark, naked cliff jumping, eating Harðfiskur and Skyr, bathing in 44C thermal spas, …
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Cielo smashes the 50 butterfly world record
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio, Brazil’s Cesar Cielo demolished Roland Schoman’s world textile record of 22.86 from 2005, Cielo managing a Brazilian and South American record of 22.76 ahead of Nicholas Dos Santos in 22.79, Dos Santos owning the now former record of 22.87. They say that there was quite a bit of tailwind maybe helping the 50 meter flyers. Read SwimNews.com
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CC photo #119: Warm-up at Køge Open 2007
Just a photo from the 2007 Køge Open meet in Denmark, sort of the ‘B-meet’ of the Danish Short Course Championships, held at the same time for those swimmers who didn’t qualify for the championships, plus a few foreigners like us the Faroese and some Swedes. Camera my old trusty Nokia N93, why was it so much cooler to say ‘Nokia’ in 2007, than it is today?
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Ottesen smashes the 50 butterfly world textile record
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio yesterday, Jeanette Ottesen demolished the Danish record in the women’s 50 butterfly, with a 25.29 beating her own record of 25.69 from the 2010 Europeans in Budapest. It is a 3rd best time in the world ever, and the fastest ever in textile, Therese Alshammar owning the now former textile mark of 25.37, and the supersuited world record of 25.07. Read for instance SwimNews.com.
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MIT create anti-fogging, glare-free, self-cleaning glass
Researchers at MIT have developed a new surface texture that, when applied to glass, produces a kind of glass that removes reflections, is free of glare, doesn’t fog, and has a surface that causes water droplets to bounce off like rubber balls, drawing whatever dirt on the surface with them. So I’m thinking goggles, goggles, goggles (yes, I know, we don’t use glass in our goggles, but if they can invent this, they better get at inventing the other thing also). See MIT News via Geekosystem.