13-year-old Jordan Pisey Windle is the youngest ever to qualify for the U.S. Olympic diving trials, held in Seattle later this month. Adopted from Cambodia as a baby and raised by two dads, he recently released his own “It Gets Better” spot, and will serve as the grand marshal for Central Indian’s upcoming Pride Parade. His mentor is Greg Louganis, yup, the Louganis. Via The Daily What.
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CC photo #154: Alex remembered at Debrecen 2012
Only a month since he passed away, feels like an instant and an eternity.
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The Dale Oen Experience fund passes NOK 500,000
A month after his brother’s death, Robin Dale Oen met the Norwegian press on the shore of Øygarden – ‘here where we grew up together’ – to thank for the support that they have received since Alex passed away. Everything from the now over NOK 513,000 (USD 84,000) that the Dale Oen Experience fund has received from private sponsors, to simple things that meant so much like food and flower vases brought by neighbors to relieve them from having to go shopping. He points out that everyday someone in Norway looses a brother or son, without it even getting mentioned in the papers. TV2.no via Simma.nu/no.
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Lost in space with jellyfish
Nana Trongratanawong gopro-ing herself while snorkeling in Jellyfish Lake in Palau.
She has another nice video on Vimeo filming mantas
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Crazy Russian gymnasts working out on a construction crane
Totally in the ‘Can you do this?‘ category, but please don’t !!
Via Neatorama
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Omega ‘Start Me Up’ Olympic Campaign featuring Natalie Coughlin
Worried about your campaign not being cool enough? Just add water!
Via the17thman
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Behold, Adrian & Co’s 5,000 square feet ‘fortress of focus’
In a luxurious, cliff-hanging mansion in the Oakland hills, Cal graduates Nathan Adrian, Will Copeland, Graeme Moore (RSA) and Sean Mahoney have lived for a year, in a 5,000 square feet, six bedrooms temporary home with a living room in which you could (and they did) play badminton. They call it ‘The Mansh’, and share it with Cal pole vaulters Allison Stokke and Theresa Raub, supposedly to please the landlord, ‘who figured with two women aboard, the boys would be less likely to go all Oscar Madison on the place’. Yeah right, you guys, you got Ms. Stokke aboard ‘to impress the landlord’. Read more here on SFGate -
Swimmers shy away from Speedo Fastskin3, choose LZR or other brands instead
According to CBS News (and hearsay in Debrecen), the Dutch squad has given up on new Speedo’s Fastskin3 racing system, opting for the 2010 LZR Racer Elite or other brands instead, national coach Titus Mennen going as far as calling the new suit “horrible”. USA’s Jessica Hardy also opts for LZR, saying that with the new Speedo goggles, “I can see more than I would like to see”. Italy’s Speedo sponsored Filippo Magnini has switched to Jaked with the logo blacked out, and Fabio Scozzoli wears the 2010 Speedo, saying “The new one compresses too much. It’s heavy at it seems like it holds water.” Speedo’s acute problem is that they cannot correct whatever faults there are in the newest version, because of FINA rules. Read more here on CBS News.
(Magnini after the Debrecen 100 freestyle, a happy man in an all-black suit)