This is a short behind the scenes clip of a shoot done by Pete Webb mid January with Ollie Armfiled and his sea swimming club. Beautiful.
4º Sea Swimmers from Pete Webb on Vimeo.
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Duncan Goodhew on why kids need to stay active
Yesterday, Great Britain’s swimming legend Duncan Goodhew visited a school in Longton, England, showing the children there his gold and bronze medals from the 1980 Olympic Games, and sharing his success story to encourage them to keep active. “I have always believed in the value of sport. I was born dyslexic and really struggled in life, but sport changed that.” Read article here on This is Staffordshire
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Michelle Obama vs Ellen DeGeneres in push-up contest
No spoilers here, you have to watch the video (or look it up)
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Sullivan, Seebohm and Edington score P&G contracts
As a major global partner of the 2012 London Olympics, Procter & Gamble is sponsoring not only the entire Australian team, but also Eamon Sullivan, Emily Seebohm and Sophie Edington as ambassadors for Gillette, Pantene and Oral-B respectively.
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Explaining its involvement with the Olympics, Maile Carnegie, Managing Director of P&G Australia and New Zealand says: “While we are not in the business of sports, P&G is in the business of helping mums . . . Every Olympic athlete has a mum and mums are with their children every step of the way, nurturing and encouraging them.”P&G even went so far as to survey the athletes about mum’s support, finding that, between them, the mums have had over 5,000 early morning starts, travelled 6.5 times around the world and done 11,000 extra loads of washing to support their children’s Olympic dreams. Via bellasugar
(Great photo of Aussie ‘mumbassadors’ with kids found here on everygirlsanswer.com)
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CC photo #34: Tórshavn’s swimming pool ready for the 2009 FAR-ISL Dual Meet
“Svimjihøllin à Gundadali” in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands ready for the inaugural annual dual meet between Faroe Islands and Iceland. Only a 25 meter pool, but nicely color-coordinated with lane ropes in Faroese colors and everything.
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Basic lung stretching for freediving (part 1)
Maria-Teresa Solomons demonstrating the Uddiyana Bandha exercise in the video below, an abdominal tonification and purging exercise used in yoga for hundreds of years, recently adopted by freedivers to improve the elimination of air from the lungs, enabling the ribcage to flex and compress more at extreme pressures at depth. Don’t know if pool swimmers can use it for anything, other than the obvious WTF-effect. Via freedivers.net
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Tom Vangeneugden calls it quits
Belgian long distance swimmer Tom Vangeneugden has decided to stop as a professional swimmer, saying here on his blog that ‘There comes a time when you no longer meet your expectations, the goals become unrealistic.’ He is happy with having completed the goals he set as a young swimmer, to compete in the Olympics and swim under 15 minutes in the 1500 freestyle, but now unfortunately it seems he doesn’t meet his own expectations, pointing to the London 2012 Olympics.
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McNamara goes for the biggest waves with his oxygen-enhanced wetsuit
Garrett McNamara already holds the world record for the biggest wave surfed (90 feet off Nazaré, Portugal in November), but aims for even bigger with his customized wetsuit fitted with a special oxygen pocket by Camelbak, allowing him to breathe through a straw for a few minutes more. Crazy, read TMZHe also has a WaveJet surfboard.
Here is the world record wave surfed, old record was Mike Parsons’ 77 feet from 2008.
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Quick Minute with Cullen Jones
USA Swimming Sport Diversity Consultant Shaun Anderson catches up with Cullen Jones in between training sessions at the U.S. Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Quick Minute with Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones from Diversity in Aquatics on Vimeo.