Swimming workout using a centre snorkle with GB coach Ben Titley and world champion Liam Tancock. Via the17thman.
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CC photo #176: Lavrans Solli at Debrecen 2012
Norway’s Lavrans Solli ready for the 50 backstroke heats at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Simma Norge told us this morning on Facebook that Solli has been selected for the London Olympics, so that sort of saved my photo of the day :-)
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Boy survives mile-long ride in storm drain during floods
Wow, read Nothing To Do With Arbroath
An 8-year-old boy survived being swept into a Minnesota drain tunnel filled with rushing water and surfaced in a creek about a mile away. While he was under, it was his mother that was on his mind. “Mom, I thought I lost you,” Kenny Markiewicz told his mother, Amber Markiewicz, when they were reunited, she said. “I did what you told me to do. I plugged my nose, I took a breath and I prayed.”
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2012 ASA Nationals: Turner and James added as relay swimmers
On this final day of the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships, no swimmer made an additional Olympic qualifying cut, but Grant Turner and Anthony James were picked as relays swimmers. Thus the second British trials with seven swimmers added to Team GB which, at 44, is the largest British squad sent to a Games. Read the Guardian and swimming.org.
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Olympic Torch Relay highlights
It is getting closer ! :-)
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Behind the scenes of the ‘underwater nightclub’
Oh no, it was fake. Via Yahoo! News …
“We didn’t want to create a hoax,” says Krivicka, who produced the video with Thinkmodo co-founder James Percelay. “Instead, we imagined a ‘what if’ scenario. We wanted to make sure that this all could exist. The diving helmets are real; there are pressurized drinking containers. Some guy in Dubai has probably already seen this and is trying to make it happen.”
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Jerry Sandusky not a unique case
Read this by Diana Nyad on the Huffington Post
“We act as if this is a unique situation. We have blared the Sandusky crimes and trial details across our front pages as if he’s a Jack the Ripper crime star of our times.
Yes, he’s that big a criminal. Yes, justice has been served. Yes, the poor young men who suffered his molestations may never truly put those loathsome, dark moments behind them.
But how many of these same creeps are operating right this minute, molesting our children, our children’s children and our neighbors, virtually and literally going after a terrifying percent of our entire youth population?
Thousands, I tell you. Not hundreds. Thousands.”
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Wife tries to stop Grant Hackett’s TV chat tomorrow
Grant Hackett’s estranged singer wife brought in lawyers to try to stop Hackett appearing on Channel 9’s 60 Minutes after learning of the interview last week, friends said. Both sides are understood to have faced off on Thursday over whether the interview could go ahead, with Nine since being closely guarded over what will appear on the show. Read more here on the Herald Sun.
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CC photo #175: James Goddard at Rijeka 2008
Great Britain’s James Goddard and behind him Spain’s Alan Cabello Forns, shortly after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships’ mens 200 IM medal ceremony. Goddard won in 1:53.46, see result list here.
