Sweet, wish they had a human guinea pig to throw into it. Oh wait.
Liquid Nitrogen Into A Swimming Pool from physicisttv on Vimeo.
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Magnussen skips World Cup to keep rivals guessing
World 100-meter freestyle champion James Magnussen launched his Olympic campaign with a victory in the men’s 15-years-and-over race at a humble meet in Sydney yesterday, and revealed that he’s skipping the World Cup meets because he wants to keep his rivals guessing. Read Port Lincoln Times.
”The best thing for me at the moment is to do carnivals like this instead of the World Cup because the other guys won’t get the chance to race me or have the chance to get used to my tactics and the way I swim,” he said after clocking 49.54s in his first competitive race since Shanghai. ”Being the hunted rather than the hunter is definitely something I’m not used to but I’m still chasing that world record so, as long as I have that in front of me, I’ll keep moving forward.”
(The Morning Swim Show interviewing James Magnussen in August)
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Hackett denies that his apartment was trashed
According to Grant Hackett himself, he was sorting out “private issues” with his wife when police swarmed his apartment at the weekend, according to the first sources ‘to find it in disarray’. Read The Telegraph via Gold Medal Mel
“We came home and had a few private issues that we needed to deal with and we’ve dealt with those.
“Candice is 100 per cent OK, our apartment is 100 per cent OK and so are our twins. It’s all a bit of a misunderstanding that we have to deal with.”
See also this video with Grant Hackett on 9News.
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Video proof: Evolta did swim the official Ironman route
Exciting stuff in American/Japanese, still think it would have gotten into problems if there was a decent current against it. Was that a whale jumping at the turn buoy? The robots completed the full Ironman challenge 2011 in only 166 hours 57 minutes, with the 2.4-miles (3.86 km) swim taking a little over 5 hours.
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Eric Shanteau’s Swim For Your Life
On October 8 at Lake Lanier Islands resort just outside of Atlanta, Ga., Eric Shanteau held his second Swim For Your Life event, benefiting Lance Armstrong’s cancer charity LIVESTRONG. Participants including Shantau himself, Aaron Peirsol, Katie Hoff, Kathleen Hersey, Mark Gangloff, Amanda Wier and Tyler McGill could choose between a 500 yard, one mile og 5 K open water race. And the water was cold :-)
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Police investigating incident at Grant Hackett’s home
According to the Herald Sun, up to 8 police cars were called to the apartment of Olympic legend Grant Hackett in the early hours of Sunday morning, to find the apartment in total disarray, including a grand piano overturned. Read more here on the Herald Sun.
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Whyte won’t let whip from wave wipe her out
Confession, this story got through here mostly because of the title. Happy that this is not a podcast, right now. Via WinonaDailyNews.com:
As the boat busted through the lake water, the second wave turned out to be a doozy.
So much so, it would change the next three months of Morgan Whyte’s life.
“We hit the second wave and I twisted backward, still holding onto the thing (tube),†Whyte said. “I kind of got whipped off. I didn’t feel anything.
“People ask me if I heard it crack or anything. I didn’t hear anything. I thought it was fine, then I looked at my (right) arm and it was moving back and forth. You could see the broken bones (pushing at the skin). It was gross.â€
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Do you know why there are so many swimming events ?
Pierre Knows (and sorry, breaststrokers and backstrokers around the world :-)
Thanks Pierre !
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Behind the goggles: Questions for Ryan Lochte
Hard questions for Ryan Lochte from his fans, like if he’s ever wanted to quit swimming.
And there is more, USA Swimming is really spitting them out these days