52-year-old assistant coach Jay Elliott Goldstein of the Berkeley Preparatory School swim team has been charged with 100 counts of possession of child pornography, after police found numerous videos of children 12 and younger engaged in sexual activities on his home computer. Detectives had discovered Goldstein on the internet trying to download child pornography, Goldstein himself has admitted that there was child pornography on his computer. Read Tampa Bay Online
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Ohio landlord wants commission to reconsider ruling on ‘white only’ sign, gets on CNN
Sigh, the Ohio landlord mentioned in December still insists that her “Public swimming pool, white only” sign is just a historical antique. She therefore wants the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to reverse its ruling from last year that it violates the Ohio Civil Rights Act by “restricting the social contact between Caucasians and African Americans as well as reinforcing discrimination actions that are aimed at oppressing all ‘people of color’.” Read more here on cnn.com
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Magnus from Berns demonstrating “the dryland breaststroke turn”
17-year-old Magnus Larson from the Danish island of Bornholm demonstrating “the dryland breaststroke turn”, as part of the ongoing ‘Can you do this?’ battle between Berns and SuSvim.
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Surfing version of a skateboard half-pipe planned for San Clemente
Surf N Turf San Clemente is the name of an 18-hole miniature golf course, a restaurant and a 75,000-gallon one-of-a-kind wave pool featuring sloping walls and sheets of gushing water that can be fine-tuned to support different skill levels and riding styles. “It’ll be the first real water half-pipe”, said Aaron McIntosh, a partner in the $2 million-plus project. Read The Orange County Register -
Swim official gets 10+ years for attempting online enticement of a minor
Ernest Harvey Shepherd from Augusta, Georgia thought he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl when he was suggesting “skinny-dipping and lunch”, offering to bring wine coolers and to go to an Econo Lodge, before the FBI Cyber Crimes Child Exploitation Task Force finally busted him upon arrival at a prearranged location to engage in sexual acts with invented person. Parents of a 16-year-old had notified the police in May after they saw “questionable online communications” on Facebook between their daughter and Shepherd, who had met the teen while working as an official at swim meets. Resulting in investigation that identified 25 other girls between age 12 and 17 whom Shepherd had inappropriate communication with online. Now he got 10 years, 10 months in federal prison, and 20 years of supervised release, with requirement to register as a sex offender. Read The Augusta Chronicle via The Swimmers Circle
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9 awesome hotel pools, including a shark tank water slide
Nice list here on TravelSupermarket, via Neatorama. Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is there, of course, with its pool stretching across the skyscrapers, and Bláa Lónið (the Blue Lagoon) in Iceland. But the one taking the price is Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, with its water slide going through a shark tank. -
Ian Thorpe’s former coach Tracey Menzies also thinks he’s left it a little late
Menzies said yesterday she did not want to second-guess her former pupil and did not have any knowledge of his training regimen under respected coach Gennadi Touretski. But she had been surprised that he had made the decision to come back to a very different swimming landscape so late. Read The Sydney Morning Herald, via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook.
“”You always felt there was unfinished business, but it was surprising in that you would have thought he would have made it earlier,” Menzies said. ”If he’s done everything in his power to do the right things, then the results will speak for themselves but it’s a different swimming world now. Knowing the work that he did to get to that level [at his peak], he has to do that and more.””
In other news from that Sydney Morning Herald story, Michael Klim is feeling a lot better, after having suffered a flare-up of his troublesome shoulder before Christmas. So he’ll swim the 50 and 100 freestyle this weekend.
”It’s just come good and turned the corner on the weekend,” Klim said. ”It was really sort of touch-and-go … I don’t think I’ve lost anything at the moment.”
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The Danish London Olympics 2012 collection is ready
The Danish Olympic Committee announced its London 2012 collection earlier this week, including formal clothing, sports wear and ‘Denmark wear’ developed by designers of official partner Bestseller’s fashion brands Jack & Jones and Vero Moda. The keen eye can pick out Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller in the track suit group shot from around 1:26, and then later both getting soaked from around 2:18. Plus Rikke apparently being really much involved in the design process also :-)
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CC photo #13: Pál and Jón survey the Szczecin 2011 competition pool
Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason survey the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships competition pool, before first training practice.
