Via Buzzfeed, the sound of frozen sea being pushed against the shore in Odessa, Ukraine.
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BIOTOP Natural Pools use plants instead of chlorine to keep water safe
Wow, interesting (and literally very ‘green’), an Austrian company called Biotop Natural Pool uses plants to create an ecosystem where the pool is teaming with life. Pool designs have separate swimming and plant-growing areas of equal size. The plants eat the algae, which would otherwise take over. Via Mike Elgan on Google+
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CC photo #41: Geoff Huegill signing autographs in Stockholm
The kids have this fun tradition at the Stockholm leg of the FINA World Cup Tour, ‘fishing’ with their autographs books from the balcony. Here they’ve caught Geoff Huegill, gold winner in the 50 meter butterfly that year (2011).
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Crazy Norwegian ice skater is back (and on thin ice)
Last year’s video was, ehm, ‘interesting’, but now it is going too far, me thinks.
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Wake surfer’s got nothing on these dolphins
Impressive speed those little things can get up to
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Adriana Lima Channels a Classic Bombshell Moment
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Michael Phelps has slept at 8,000 feet for almost a year
According to the Washington Post 16-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps said Wednesday he had been sleeping “at 8,000 feet every night†for almost a year, after noticing he bounced back from workouts better when he trained at altitude, and therefore trying a device that simulates that.
“We’ve been able to realize after going to Colorado Springs so many times that it is something that helps me recover,†Phelps said. “That’s something that is so important to me now being older. I don’t recover as fast as I used to.â€
They are for some reason calling it a hyperbaric chamber, which as far as I know would be a chamber with higher air pressure than what’s normal at sea level, and therefore the exact opposite of altitude. But there you go.
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Good Counsel swimmer Sarah Haase’s Olympic hopes
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Pellegrini and others want Italian Premier to back Rome 2020 Olympic bid
Sixty of Italy’s elite athletes are appealing Premier Mario Monti to give the government’s support behind the Rome 2020 Olympic bid for the summer Games, with the Italian economic crisis as main obstacle to gaining full support. Read SportsFeatures.com.