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Swiss swimmer in an icy lake at 7600 feet in the Alps
This is Swiss Ernst Bromeis in the ice cold Toma Lake at 2345 meters altitude altitude above sea level, near Disentis, Switzerland. He plans to swim, wade and user other means for the 1240 kilometers from the source of the Rhine in Switzerland to the water mouth near Rotterdam in 2012, to make people aware that water is the foundation of all being and that their soul is also affected by the water. Follow him on Das Blaue Wunder. Via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com -
Grant Hackett and wife Candice Alley separate
Swimming legend Grant Hackett has this morning confirmed that he and wife Candice Alley have separated, with him wishing her “every success”.
“I can confirm media speculation this morning that Candice and I have separated,” Hackett said in a statement.
“I want to be dignified in my approach to everything and ensure the children’s needs are paramount and put first.
“I wish Candice every success. It is my hope that everybody can respect the process and be kind to all parties involved as it is a very difficult time.”
It is believed that Hackett and his singer-songwriter wife separated following the Logies incident in which Hackett was asked to leave the official after-party, and the other incident from six months ago probably didn’t help either.
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Alexander Dale Oen’s teammates back in Norway and on TV
The Norwegian national swimming team arrived at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo this morning, of course swarmed by local media. A sad Aleksander Hetland discloses that Dale Oen was doing fine on his last day, in no pain at all, “Now I haven’t got my training partner anymore. We had made great plans for the summer together. I must just take a day at a time”. Team physiotherapeut Christer Kjølholdt dismisses that Alexander was feeling unwell, says he thinks that the police report is wrong, and that Alexander was as he usually was. TV2 discloses that there will be a minute of silence at the beginning of the Europeans in Debrecen, in remembrance of Alex.
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The Morning Swim Show: Marcus Titus
On today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show Marcus Titus talks about his campaign to have hand signals instituted at the U.S. Olympic Trials for deaf swimmers. Titus, who is legally deaf, talks about the necessity of having hand signals for deaf swimmers at the start of races, and how it could impact him in races where precious tenths of a second count.
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Stepdad accused of holding boy’s head underwater during swim lesson
21-year-old Jacqorie Stansell was trying to teach his stepson to swim Sunday at a public pool, but grew frustrated because the boy wasn’t learning quickly enough. So he started holding the boy’s head underwater repeatedly for as long as 15 seconds at a time, the boy almost drowning and paramedics called in to revive him when he stopped breathing. Read and watch video for instance on Los Angeles Times and KTLA.
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Jessicah Schipper recovering after emergency surgery
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Jessicah Schipper survived an emergency surgery this weekend after being rush to the hospital Sunday night with “extreme abdominal pain”. Initially diagnosed with the need to remove her appendix, surgeons discovered that she had a ruptured cyst on her ovary, which they then repaired. Read The Herald Sun via SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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CC photo #124: Alexander and Pál at the Budapest 2010 Europeans
A fond memory from the Budapest 2012 European Championships, Alexander Dale Oen and Pál Joensen having a chat by the warm-up pool. This was the first big meet after the supersuit were banned, and they both did really good, so we were all really happy.
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When the hero of your kids dies
Andreas Selliaas has written the most touching blog post here in Norwegian. I’ll allow myself to translate most of it here, as well as I can, but if you read this and like it then you should visit that post and tweet it or whatever to pay tribute to the author. Beautifully put, in a very sad way.Sleepless: On each side of me my children lie and cry quietly. They cannot sleep. They are very sad. They find it difficult to say what they are thinking. Many thoughts run through their minds. The only thing they know is that they are sad, really sad. So sad that they have to cry and not sleep. My daughter wonders if she can take on everything at the next swim practice. She is afraid of dying. Did Alexander die because he swam too fast? My son says he cannot sleep because he’ll never see his biggest idol again. It wasn’t just Alexander who looked forward to the Olympics. Alexander is the only real idol he’s got, the one he has a passionate relationship to and who did that swimming was accepted among the pals at school. And now he is gone.