As Dave puts it here on Daily Picks and Flicks: “A taxi driver in the city of Kirov, Russia, is having a really bad day.”
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Thomas Fraser-Holmes toughs it out after two drowning tragedies
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Thomas Fraser-Holmes was part of the search party to recover the body of 14-year-old Matthew Barclay, who drowned at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships on March 28 on the Gold Coast, just 10 days after Thomas-Fraser had beaten Thorpe and all other rivals in the most publicised event of the Australian Olympic swimming trials, the men’s 200m freestyle. Even more poignant for Fraser-Holmes, it was two years since his great mate Saxon Bird had drowned in an almost identical situation, in the same event, on the same beach. Read more here on smh.com.au.
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Sexually graphic emails led to firing of former UT swim coach John Trembley
Pornographic images and sexually explicit emails are to blame for the firing of the former University of Tennessee head swim coach, but no criminal charges will be made. UT record don’t make clear whether John Trembley ever acted on his online offers of sex or whether that double life extended past a few days in May and June, the whole issue sparked a complaint on December 2 that Trembley had asked former UT swimmer and double Olympic gold medal winner Melvin Stewart for a check made payable to him personally. In a response to these news, Trembley sent the following statement via his lawyer:
“For the past several years, I have been treated for depression,” Trembley wrote. “More recently I have struggled with substance abuse and addiction to fantasy communications with others through the Internet. … I continue to seek and receive treatment and have been substance- and destructive behavior-free for 2012. … I deeply regret any harm leveled on anyone. … It is a beautiful day and it is great to be alive.”
Read wbir.com, knownews.com and SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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CC photo #127: Start splashes at the 2009 Faroese Championships
A photo from the 2009 Faroese (Short Course) Championships. ‘Short Course’ in parenthesis because we only have short course pools here. This year’s Faroese championships start on Thursday, to be televised and probably streamed online and everything, I’ll get back on that one later.
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German Swimming Championships start list and details
The 124th German Swimming Championships are next week, Thursday May 10th to Monday May 14th in Berlin, Olympic qualifying meet and also German qualification for the European Juniors in Antwerp in July. The start list is now online as pdf and on the championships site with room for results, including of course all major German swimmers, plus one Slovenian. See schwimm.dm.de for more details, there is even the menu plan for you to drool over :-)
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A New Aquatics Facility For UCSB Athletics
Already one of the top academic institutes in the US, University of California, Santa Barbara is also aiming to raise the bar of its athletic campus, beginning with a new $9.5 million aquatics facility, “A place for champions”. Standing applause here.
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Team USA Road to London: Janet Evans
At the age of 40, 4-time Olympic medalist, Janet Evans makes a comeback for the 2012 London Olympic Games. With seven World records and 45 National titles, Evans is considered one of the greatest swimmers in U.S. history. Following only behind Tracy Caulkins and Michael Phelps. Team USA via the17thman.
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Canadian Paralympic ad is awe-inspiring (and shot in one go)
Absolutely fantastic 2010 Paralympic Games video ad made by BBDO Toronto for the Canadian Paralympic Committee, featuring an athlete with a prosthetic leg running on a track littered by elements of his story of recovery – a car crash, a hospital and physical training. Via Mashable.
The video itself is also a major feat, shot in one continuous take with no compter-generated effects at all. See the ‘making of’ video here below, via PetaPixel.
And, see also their incredible poster. These people are geniuses.
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Bar Refaeli shows off her new men’s collection
Yes, men’s underwear inspired, designed *and* demoed by Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, see under.me. And yes, since it did that thing with Michael Phelps and cleans a swimming pool in the video, it is relevant for this site. Period.