“Competitive swimmers have an advantage in this pipeline because of their familiarity and comfort in the water. Something you can’t really teach. One of the biggest and largest hurdles that any potential SEAL has to face is fear of the water, fear of the ocean.”
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Italian Sky Sport HD London 2012 promo featuring Luca Dotto
We know that pool, we know it well :-)
Via the17thman
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Flo the dog climbs ladders and high dives into pool
Extremely impressed here, not so happy about heights myself, but this dog just don’t care. What is that, 3 meters? And that comment, “Don’t think about it!” :-D
Via Neatorama
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Nugent says Thorpe didn’t want to swim and his goggles fell off
Australian head coach Leigh Nugent says there were mitigation factors to Ian Thorpe’s 52.28 and 4th in the Zurich International 100 meters freestyle last week, and that his 3:59.28 in the 400 meter was just a cruise. Via Reuters
“Bernard Savage was there and he got the impression from Ian that he didn’t really want to swim there,” Nugent said.
“In the 100 his goggles came off and that did him in a bit psychologically.”
“In the 400 he never raced for performance. He raced it more as a cruising swim and he felt pretty good about that.”
(Thorpe at the Oerlikon, 3rd from left)
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Wow, British Swimming has a Trials Daily
It looks super-nice and you can win a Speedo Fastskin 3 if you sign up to it.
Via British Swimming on Twitter …
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Ryan Lochte Training Session
Ryan Lochte training hard for the Olympic Trials, via the17thman ;-)
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CC photo #63: A TV crew at the Roma 09 World Championships
This couple walked up past us in the athlete’s stand at the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Good to see equality at work, when it comes to hauling equipment :-)
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Exclusive look at the Speedo Fastskin3 racing system
Iowa State University kinesiology professor Rick Sharp helped design the new Speedo Fastskin3 swimsuits that will be worn by the U.S. Olympic team and others in London, as well as the Speedo LZR Racer used at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. KCCI8 via the17thman
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“Breathe” Teaser Trailer #1
Freediving master William Trubridge takes us through the sport as he attempts to break his own world record dive. I just love how those local people are almost scared of Dean’s Blue Hole :-)