According to SwimmingWorld Magazine, the Hungarian Swimming Association has enacted a suspended nine-month ban of David Verraszto recently, for striking teammate Gergely Gyurta on the final night of the 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin, Poland. This was presumably because Gyurta had sent a text message to Verraszto’s ex-girlfriend, as we heard in December. The implementation of the ban has been pushed back two years though, so that Verraszto can compete at the Olympics. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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CC photo #26: Omega OSB11 starting blocks in KlaksvÃk
We might not have any 50-meter pools in the Faroe Islands, but we got our first set of fancy Olympic standard Omega OSB11 starting blocks in September, 2010, and our next in 2011, so that we at least can start our swims properly in 2 of 3 25-meter pools :-)
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Sirenia Shadows, a swim with the manatees
The endangered West Indian Manatees of Florida get a loving tribute in Built By Wildman‘s stunning nature short, “Sirenia Shadows.” Via The Daily What
Sirenia Shadows from Built By Wildman on Vimeo.
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London 2010 Anti-Doping Testing Facility will run 24×7 to screen athletes
The BBC just got a look at the newly-unveiled anti-doping testing facility that’ll be used at the London Olympics this summer, hailed as the most high-tech, complete such facility ever conceived. We’re talking thousands of workers, testing going 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a space estimated at the size of seven tennis courts, ensuring that results will be available in about 48 hours thanks to the nonstop pace of testing planned. Read more here on popsci.com
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Kuwait’s Abdul Rehaman Al Bader suspended for doping with Metylhexaneamine
FINA announced today that Kuwait’s Abdul Rehaman Al Bader has been suspended for six months retroactive to October 19, 2011, after testing positive for Methylhexaneamine at the 1st GCC Games in Bahrain. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
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Cat takes on hungry alligator
Brave little kitty ! :-)
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The Casio G-Shock looks like a phone for the (clumsy) coach
Behold, Casio’s official G-Shock smartphone, shock resistant to 10 feet, water resistant to 1.0 bar (10m), pressure resistant to 1.0 ton, and with real, stopwatch-friendly physical buttons around the perimeter of the device rather than the usual set of Android (or iPhone) capacitive buttons. Via phandroid -
Don’t push your luck with crocs
Some people still think it is safe to go swimming in waterways across the Northern Territory in Australia, but Environment Department director of conservation and wildlife Brett Easton warns that they are taking huge risks by mistakenly assuming crocodiles do not inhabit them. “Some of the things that we heard continually is that it was fairly shallow and it was clear, and you could see very well,” he said, “or it was fast moving, so apparently crocodiles won’t come to fast-moving water”. “The classic is you send the dog in first, which, as you probably know, is a very good crocodile attractant.” See ABC
Yes I know, as I’ve been watching this movie while running at the gym last week :-P
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It’s a shark ‘accident’, not an ‘attack’
The concept of the ‘rogue’ shark, seeking revenge on its human nemesis is nothing more that Hollywood fodder, says Christopher Neff, researcher at the University of Sydney carrying out the world’s first PhD on the politics of ‘shark bite incidents’. He says we should drop the term ‘attack’ and all the other emotive language as sensationalist and misleading. ‘Swimmers are in the way, not on the menu,’ he says, ‘there is no evidence any shark species develops a taste for human flesh.’ Read more here on Sail-World.