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.”
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.
https://twitter.com/MrGrantTurner/status/216668358907674626
It is getting closer ! :-)
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
The Austrian Swimming Federation will be represented at the Olympic Games in London by nine swimmers, including two-time medal winning Markus Rogan. Individually qualified are Rogan, Dinko Jukić, Jördis Egger, Birgit Koschischek, Lisa Zaiser, Christian Scherübl and Nina Dittrich, and for the men’s 4×200 freestyle David Brandl and Florian Janistyn. Read swimsportnews.de
