While most of the comeback stories have fizzled this year at the Australian Trials, Libby Trickett managed to qualify for the 4×100 relay. Melanie Schlanger and Cate Campbell took the individual spots in 53.85 and 54.01, while Brittany Elmsie, Yolane Kukla, and Alicia Coutts took the other relay spots. In the men’s 200 backstroke, Mitch Larkin and Matson Lawson qualified in 1:57.90 and 1:58.32, in the men’s 200 IM Daniel Tranter and Jayden Hadler with a 1:58.19 and 1:58.99, and in the women’s 200 breaststroke Tessa Wallace and Sally Foster with 2:26.31 and 2:26.51 respectively. Read more here on Swimming World Magazine.
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NCSA Junior Nationals to be streamed live as PPV on Ustream
Interesting concept here:
NCSA Junior National Swimming Championships
Tuesday, March 20 – Saturday, March 24
Price: $24.95
Ustream is proud to present live coverage of the NCSA Junior Nationals live from Orlando, FL! PPV ticket buyers will get front-row access to see 1500 competitors aged 18 and under competing under Olympic trial standards. -
CC photo #81: Amaury Leveaux with a fan at Rijeka 2008
French swimmer Amaury Leveaux having his photo taken with fan at the 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. First man under 45 seconds in the 100 freestyle … Okay, in a supersuit, but it was excellent nevertheless. And now it looks like he is back, with a 1:46.72, 2nd and Olympic qualifying time in the 200 free at the French Nationals today, yay !
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Jeez, Cameron’s deep sea sub is a spinning fast-diving vertical thorpedo
This sounds like the stuff that severe seasickness is made of:
He calls it a vertical torpedo. The axis of his 24-foot-long craft is upright rather than horizontal, speeding the plunge. His goal is to fall and rise as quickly as possible so he can maximize his time investigating the dark seabed. He wants to prowl the bottom for six hours. …
Just as bullets are spun to steady their flight, Mr. Cameron’s craft rotates on its vertical axis — another first. In a test dive, he has already broken the modern depth record for piloted vehicles, going down more than five miles.
Read more here on The New York Times
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Are submarines the new yachts for the wealthy?
Some call it the final frontier. While humans have breached the limitations of land, air and space, the underwater world remains largely untouched. Read more here on ABC News
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First Ever Underwater Marathon will be on September 9, 2012
Athletes’ Performance, the Andrews Institute and HydroWorx are hosting the first organized Underwater Marathon to raise funds to help heal wounded Special Forces soldiers on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 at Tröegs Brewery in Hershey, PA. The marathon will allow individuals and corporate teams to raise money for the Eagle Fund by running 5K, 10K, half-marathon or marathon distances on HydroWorx X80 underwater treadmills. Via PRWeb, learn more about the Eagle Fund at www.underwatermarathon.com
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Reporters say the darndest things
Video from James Magnussen’s 100 freestyle post race interview at the Australian Trials. Reporter says (@0:30): “Just pause it here as you’re coming into the wall, we’ll just get the boys to pause it. How important is the turn at this stage?”. Magnussen is being all polite and talking about ‘momentum’ and stuff … but seriously, if he didn’t turn, it could be catastrophic! :-P #beentheredonethat
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Video: Ian Thorpe’s 200 freestyle semi at Australian Trials
Here it is, Ian Thorpe’s 200 meter freestyle semi-final at the Australian Olympic Trials, in full length. Painful to watch, and to listen to those reporters going “Ian-Ian-Ian” even though they have 7 other great Aussies in that pool.
Found by Ricky Berens
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The President, the Coach, the Champ and me
There I was, about to be beaten to a pulp by the former Danish 200 meter butterfly champion, now president of the Faroese swimming federation, the coach of Pál Joensen, and the guy who used to be able to do 100 pushups in 1 minute (and still probably can). Must work on my start, my turn, my kick and maybe everything :-)
