“Smooth surfer Jorgelina “Lina” Reyero hails from a small town on the Atlantic Coast of Argentina. She’s spent the last 6 years wandering the world with her surfboard in tow and has wound up near the beautiful Wategos Beach. Last month, she mounted a little camera to the nose of her log and captured the beauty of an empty surf.” Via Buzzfeed
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Small swimmers’ big ambitions
Al Jazeera, via the17thman
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Gandy sets British record, 6 secure spot on GB’s Olympic team
Ellen Gandy set a British national record this evening with a time of 57.25 in the 100 butterfly, with Francesca Halsall also qualifying for the Olympics in 57.56. David Sliwinski and Craig Benson qualified in the 100 breaststroke with 1:00.09 and 1:00.47 respectively, and Rebecca Adlington and Joanne Jackson in the 400 freestyle with 4:02.35 and 4:06.47. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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‘Blood in the water’ – Hungary vs USSR at the 1956 Olympics
Try to imagine the situation,” says Dezso Gyarmati, captain of Hungary’s 1956 Olympic water polo team. “A superpower destroys your country with weapons and tanks — a country that has never asked for that power to be there. And after that revolution is crushed you have to face the representatives of that superpower.” CNN via the17thman
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CC photo #65: FLOT stevnan 2012
A photo from local club FLOT’s annual youth swim meet here in Toftir, Faroe Islands, yesterday. As you see quite crowded, and also extremely hot and humid.
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Dominik Meichtry and Jessica Hardy engaged
Breaking news on Twitter from yesterday evening, Dominik Meichtry proposed to Jessica Hardy, and she said yes.
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Hannah Miley interviewed after her British Trials 400 IM win
YES, they are uploading to YouTube now also ! :-)
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Videos from 1st day of British Trials
British Swimming is continuing their fine work with videos from day 1 of the British Olympic Trials here on swimming.org, interviewing Olympic qualifiers and also presenting video from a race or two.
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Jennie Johansson sets Swedish record at the British Trials
Sweden’s Jennie Johansson set a Swedish record this morning at the British Olympic Trials, with a time of 1:07.10 in the 100 meter breaststroke prelims, 11/100 faster than Joline Höstman’s Swedish record of 1:07.21 from the Rome 2009 World Championships. Well inside the FINA A Olympic qualifying standard of 1:08.49, and behind only Rebecca Soni’s 1:06.88 on SwimNews’ 2012 World Ranking list.  Via simma.nu/se.