“Marshall explains that “the concept was pretty straightforward” and involved a few easy steps: catch the shark, control it, dive with it, and mount the camera. What he didn’t expect was that the shark wasn’t very enthusiastic about having a camera fixed to its back, which led to a near-death experience for a National Geographic cameraman (don’t worry, he’s fine).” Read PetaPixel
Eleven-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte has predicted that 18-time champion Michael Phelps will return to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016. Read The Telegraph
“With the short course World Swimming Championships due to get underway in Istanbul this week there will be a new feature which was introduced at the latest European Championships, where men and women compete together in mixed relays.” Read RT
(and btw – wow, hyperflexible elbows)
“They can’t walk, they can’t talk — but these 9-month-old twins can sure swim. Ellie and William Trykush can already swim the entire length of a 25-foot pool without the assistance of their mother, a swim instructor. Their father said he has his eyes set on the 2028 Olympics for his aquatic overachievers.” Read ABC News
All 518 doping tests carried out on athletes in aquatic events at the London 2012 Olympics returned negative, the sport’s governing body Fina said on Sunday. Read SuperSport
The FINA Bureau awarded yesterday the organisation of the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in 2016 to the city of Windsor (Ontario, Canada). For this event, bidding interest had also been received from the city of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and Ashgabat (Turkmenistan). Read fina.org
USA’s Jessica Hardy and Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte after their 50 breaststroke prelims at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Meilutyte posted a new championships record of 29.56, Hardy 3rd in 29.74, see result list here
The busy bees at Omega have released the FINA World Swimming Championships (25) start lists here on omegatiming, we are very happy to not see our guy Pál in the 1500 prelims, which means that he is in the final.
A photo from the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m), the last day before competition starts. Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure this will be okay tomorrow, and they are not the first to have had this happen :-P
