The original Hajós Alfréd National Swimming Pool in Budapest, Hungary, here used as warmup pool at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships. Designed by Hajós Alfréd himself, Olympic champion from the very first Games in Athens 1896.
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CC photo #56: Brunei Swimming at Roma 2009
A Brunei Swimming coach at the Roma 2009 World Aquatics Championships. That gesture is universal :-)
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Puffer fish chasing a laser pointer
Important stuff, via Geekologie
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Thorpe to try out the 400 freestyle this weekend
Ian Thorpe will make a surprise return to his former signature event, the 400m freestyle, in his final hit-out before next month’s Olympic trials. “The 400m is more about experimenting with his racing, not so much about what he would be intending to do at trials,” says Australian head coach Leigh Nugent. Read The Herald Sun
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Mumbai’s Floating Balcony Pools
Architect James Law designed this skyscraping residential complex called Aquaria Grande for real estate company Wadhwa Group in Mumbai, India, including a series of beautiful but I’m sure also vertigo-inducing swimming pools extending at the edge of each apartment’s balcony. They are actually building the thing, see thewadhwagroup.com. Via mymodernmet.com.
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Golden Gate Bridge Open Water Swim with a GoPro
Footage from a Golden Gate Bridge Swim in October 2011, swimming with a GoPro attached to the swimmer’s back.
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Scooter the penguin needs a cape to keep warm
The African penguin Scooter didn’t molt this year, which means she didn’t grow the new feathers that weave into a watertight coat, and the zookeepers at Children’s Zoo at Celebration Square in Saginaw, Michigan therefore had to put this cape on her, in order to keep her from going into hypothermia. Californians have had success with a custom-made wet suit triggering the molting process, but Scooter goes for the shabby-chic Hungarian colors. Read more here on mlive.com -
Underwater ‘Seaview’ lets you explore the Great Barrier Reef
An underwater variant of the Google Street View service will from today begin giving web users an unprecedented photographic tour of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – and another reef in Bermuda will soon be getting similar treatment. Read more here on New Scientist and visit Catlin Seaview Survey.
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A photo from Foro Italico this morning
Our friend John Tierney is apparently in Rome these days, and those nice Roma09 posters still hanging in that magnificent Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto. Very nice :-)
