We are underway, Sergey Fesikov was fastest in the first prelim event with a 21.32 in the 50 freestyle. Follow the event LIVE on Omega Timing, I’ll be putting relevant links on www.swimmersdaily.com/live also.
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Flyboard from Zapata Racing, for when you REALLY want to have fun
Wow, this thing looks even better than the Jetlev r200 Jet Pack, with those additional hoses on your arms and everything. See zapata-racing.com, via Buzzfeed
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European Duel in the Pool roster released
USA Swimming has today released the European Duel in the Pool roster, including 41 top swimmers from Hungary, Great Britain, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Lithuania, Sweden, Netherlands, Slovenia, Ireland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and tiny Faroe Islands. Noticeable that big countries like France, Italy and Spain are missing, but I guess they just weren’t good enough :-PSee also the USA roster here
Via SwimmingWorld Magazine and SwimNews.com
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LEN has a new webpage
The European governing body of swimming announced their new website today, www.len.eu, just in time for the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships. One of the really great things about it is the returning photo galleries of Giorgio Scala, typically free for any use except advertisement, if you remember to mention “Deepbluemedia.eu/G.Scala” as author. Actually, I think he’s the guy with the explosive start in my banner image here above :-)
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Pregnant giraffe rescued from swimming pool
While filming TV show Wild at Heart in Africa the crew are surprised to discover a pregnant giraffe trapped in their swimming pool. Via care2.com
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Stephanie Rice to retire after London 2012
Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has announced that she will retire after the London Games, hopefully with a glorious finale. And as preparation for the future, she has launched Steph’s Swim Squad via SunRice Foods Facebook page, an online training and mentoring program for aspiring swimmers, and as part of the program personally mentor 10 young swimmers for a year. Via couriermail.com.au
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2-year-old boy survives 30 minutes underwater (!)
Not even in ice-cold water, but in the family pool. And he is already bicycling again, saved by the doctors putting him into ‘therapeutic hypothermia‘, where your body is cooled down to almost hibernation, and then slowly brought back to life again. He just woke up and was 100% normal again. Gee, they must rename him ‘dolphin boy’. Via ABC News.
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The Szczecin 2011 Start Lists
So, the preliminary European Short Course Swimming Championships psych sheets are now online on omegatiming.com, as well as in PDF-format on ecszczecin2011.eu. Our guy Pál Joensen is in the 1500 meter freestyle final on Saturday, on lane 0.
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HIV-positive couple jailed for swimming pool sex act
An HIV-positive Edinburgh couple who downed three bottles of vodka before carrying out a sex act in a public swimming pool have been jailed. This was while children were swimming nearby, and when asked to leave the premises, they first asked for their entrance money back, and then spat at police officers and a pool attendant, and bit a police constable in the leg. Three police officers and a member of pool staff had to wait six months to find out if they had been infected with HIV, risk “negligible”, but for one police officer though facing a different risk “because blood was involved.” Nice. Via deadline
