Literally, a Global Triathlon beginning with a first-ever 5700 km swim across the Atlantic Ocean under traditional stage swim rules, before crossing Europe and Asia on bicycle, and then America on foot. The swim alone will take 6 months, starting in May 2012. Via SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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A landlord in Ohio is claiming that not only is her “White Only” pool sign not racist, but that the state’s civil rights commission was wrong in declaring it discriminatory. An African-American girl visited the pool and was told that she made the pool ‘cloudy’ because she used chemicals in her hair, and then this sign came up. The landlord defends herself with saying that it is “a historical sign” and then adds:
“I’ve never said anything to that child,†Hein said. “If I have to stick up for my white rights, I have to stick up for my white rights. It goes both ways.â€
“I just remember hearing a crunch, darkness and next thing I knew was in the water, underwater,” says Eric Tarantino, shark attack victim. “Everything was quiet and I could see the shark.” Via Central Coast News
So, tired of waiting for the results in English on www.saknikovcup.ru, I’ve fought my way through the result list in Cyrillic letters on russwimming.ru this evening, listing the medal winners in English by using the little I remember of Russian from high school.
Most noteworthy results are Nikolay Skvortsov’s (RUS) 1:50.55 in the 200 butterfly and Elena Sokolova’s (RUS) 4:01.93 in the 400 freestyle, earning each of them the Silver Shark statuette. Also Danila Izotov’s (RUS) 1:42.83 in the 200 freestyle, and Job Kienhuis’ (NED) 14:30.14 in the 1500 freestyle. All short course meters.
A TSAI Chia-Wen light and sound installation for Nuit Blanche Paris 2011, in the most ancient swimming pool “Château-Landon” of Paris City.
FLUID Nuit Blanche Paris from Chia-Wen TSAI on Vimeo.
WoW is a non-slip “Walk on Water” outsole technology that gives your Arena sandals a ‘perfect grip’ no matter if the floor is wet or not. Exciting video, for a moment I wondered if they’d chase each other into (onto?) the pool, but (spoiler alert:) no such luck! :-)
Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice has had a minor setback in her recovery from shoulder surgery last week, with an infection now forcing her to miss training. Rice’s doctor ordered her to avoid training today, “Doc said it was slightly infected. Got some antibiotics and can get into xtraining again tomorrow,” Rice tweeted. Coach Michael Bohl says they’ll now wait until the infection is cleared before deciding when she can swim again, hopefully later this week. Via Herald Sun and The Sydney Morning Herald
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Earlier this month, a Central Florida diver broke the world record for longest saltwater dive by almost five minutes after spending two days under turbulent seas. 45-year-old Allen Sherrod dove in at 10:12 AM Thursday morning December 1st when the sea was flat, but that swiftly changed and conditions deteriorated, meaning he had to spend much of his time kneeling on the sea floor to stabilize himself and prevent seasickness, while clinging to an artificial reef to fend off strong currents. But he broke the now former record of 48 hours, 8 minutes and 7 seconds, now 48 hours and 13 minutes, having only a few ribs broken and hands swollon and skin broken and stuff like that. Via The Palm Beach Post and CBS Miami.
The Eco Extreme is a rugged all terrain speaker case that works with every mp3 player or cellphone with a headset jack, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, Motorola Droid and Blackberry. Able to withstand being submersed 1 meter in water for up to 30 min, and floatable to minimize that potential problem. Most rugged cases only provide headphone access, but this one’s got a 3W speaker with a simple volume knob on front, for you to share your music with everyone :-)
Via appadvice.com
