You need this, Freestyle Cruiser via Neatorama
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CC photo #229: Swimmers ready for “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012”
Open water swimmers ready for the swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy (the island ahead of them). Only about 5K in a straight line, but the current typically slings you way south (to the right on the picture) and then back again north so fast that swimmers sometimes have drifted clear off the island before being brought back on the other side. This year the currents were calm, though, and the path therefore relatively straight.
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Unidentified woman dies trying to cross the English Channel
The body of an unidentified Asian woman wearing a wetsuit has been found on a beach in northern France. Carrying a compass and energy food bars, spare clothes in a plastic pouch and smeared with vaseline, she is thought to have attempted to swim the 21 miles across the English Channel to Britain, when she drowned and was washed back ashore.
A Calais police spokesman added: ‘It may have been depicted in a fictional film, but this is the first time we have ever seen any illegal immigrant actually try to swim the channel.
‘Although there may have been successful attempts that we don’t know about.Read more here on the Daily Mail
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Russia’s head coach Vorontsov possibly fired after lackluster London Games
Read The Voice Of Russia:
In Beijing, Russia won 23 gold medals, and in London, 24. In swimming, there was no gold at all. The swimmers’ silver count exceeded the one in Beijing by only one medal. Accordingly, head coach of the Russian swimming team Andrei Vorontsov has already been sacked.
In other news, here is a song celebrating Korotyshkin’s silver medal in the 100 butterfly
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Cullen Jones tells you how to be a winner
“If you need any inspiration in life, then you need to read about freestyle swimming star Cullen Jones, and then watch our video.” See Hollywood Life
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U.S. Olympic swimming post-Phelps
Despite all-time Olympic medal winner Michael Phelps saying this is his last Olympics, the future of the U.S. team looks bright. Terrell Brown speaks with Time magazine senior writer Sean Gregory for the latest from London. See CBS News
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CDC confirms amoeba infection killed Lily Lake swimmer
Tests confirm that an amebic infection is what killed a 9-year-old boy days after he went swimming in a popular lake in Stillwater. Read more here on myfox9.com
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CC photo #228: These Santas sure come from Greenland
Just look at their suits! A gang of Santa Clauses seen during the 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin in Poland, between our hotel and the pool.
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Video from “Ólavsøkusvimjingin 2012”
Behold, our footage from the 400 meter open water race along the main pier of Tórshavn on our national holiday “Ólavsøka“. The laughing along the route is mostly because me and Bartal had totally underestimated how fast we had to run, if our plan of one filming while the other ran should work.
