Olympic Champion Nathan Adrian reminding voters to return their ballots early and not to wait until the last minute.
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Michael Phelps is not so good at crowd-surfing
Michael Phelps decided to do a little crowd-surfing at XS, a Vegas club, this week, and as the video below shows, it didn’t end so well. I blame the crowd. See TMZ via Yahoo! Sports
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The May Fair Hotel meets Keri-Anne Payne
A May Fair Hotel interview with Keri-anne Payne at The May Fair post Olympic Party in London.
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CC photo #301: The Berlin 2012 World Cup Leg – Tilt Shifted
Just me playing with the ‘miniature effect’ mode of my Sony camera at the FINA / Arena 2012 World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. I think this is the women’s 400 meter freestyle heat 3, Rebecca Mann (USA) closest to us, then Lotte Friis (DEN) and then Diletta Carlin (ITA).
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Behold everyone cheering on Camille Muffat
A very special moment at the FINA / Arena 2012 World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany, last weekend, when the French Olympic champion Camille Muffat charged ahead in the women’s 400 freestyle, splitting repeatedly under world record pace, until she just missed it by 1 hundredth of a second. Behold how everyone cheers on her, even the Danes and Americans who had swimmers being distanced by her. Result list here.
Everyone cheering on Camille Muffat
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Anthony Ervin releases the “Swim Swam Song”
Uploaded today on YouTube … GoPro’s are great for video but not audio :-P
SwimSwam Song
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CC photo #300: A controversial moment at Rijeka 2008
The start of the men’s 50 backstroke final at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. Notice the two men without tech suits on lane 2 and 7. If I’m not very much mistaken, they were Germany’s Helge Meeuw (on lane 2) and Thomas Rupprath (on lane 7), opting to swim in ‘banana hammocks’ rather than the brand of ‘supersuits’ that they otherwise had to wear because of the German swimming federation’s sponsor obligations.
Here is a video from that event
Protestaktion von Thomas Rupprath und Helge Meeuw bei Kurzbahn-EM
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Rick Curl arrested, turned himself in
Longtime Montgomery County swim coach Rick Curl turned himself in to police Thursday morning to face one count of child abuse, authorities said, based on allegations that he had an ongoing sexual relationship with a young swimmer in the 1980s. Read The Washington Post via SCAQ Blog
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Channing Crowder saw Michael Phelps smoke weed 3 weeks before getting caught
According to Channing Crowder, former Miami Dolphins linebacker and current co-host on “The Jorge Sedano Show” on 560 WQAM in Miami, he saw him smoke some weed three weeks prior to being caught taking a hit from a bong. And, Ryan Lochte is described as a pothead. And they go at him for that gaffe on ‘Game Day’. Via Larry Brown Sports and Sports Grid
“When I left Florida, Ryan Lochte was younger than me so he had to be a new freshman,” Crowder said. “And he walked around with his hippie long blond hair and he smoked weed all the time. That’s what Ryan Lochte was. The first time I saw him was in the Olympic Trials and he had the Gator (swim cap) on and I didn’t know the name Ryan Lochte — I remembered the face. And I was like, ‘Oh it’s a Gator in the Olympics.’ I looked and I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s the little hippie pothead boy that was a freshman when I was there.’”
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