I like every bit of this video, except maybe that guy in the beginning messing up the speech because of having had too much wine during dinner :-P
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The Morning Swim Show: Chad Le Clos
Peter Busch, host of The Morning Swim Show, speaking with Chad Le Clos about choice of new car and stuff now after winning 23 gold medals and some US$ 146.000 on the FINA/Arena World Cup 2011 circuit.
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Great Britain now technically banned from London 2012
Crazy, WADA has now declared the British Olympic Association (BOA) “non-compliant” with the WADA Code, which means that the host nation is technically unable to compete at London 2012. The row is over CAS/WADA lifting the ‘Osaka Rule’ that bars from the next games anyone who has served a doping suspension of 6 months or more, and Great Britain insisting on maintain a lifetime ban for own drug cheats. The WADA decision was made yesterday, and now BOA takes it back to CAS. Read SwimNews.com., The SportReview and The BBC
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Estrella Navarro Holm on freediving
Mexican freediving champion Estrella Navarro Holm describing the pleasures and challenges of her sport. With English subtitles.
She’s a looker, by the way, as in hot d***
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Tour de France winner blasts different perceptions of doping in cycling and soccer
Soccer players are applauded for doping, while cyclist are censured for it, 2006 Tour de France winner Óscar Pereiro claimed on the Spanish television show “Punto Pelota” this weekend.
“Giovanella tested positive, Gurpegui, Guardiola … And all are because they take an energy complex. If a cyclist takes it, he has doped. Everyone at San Mamés, Balaidos, Barcelona shouts ‘innocent’ and I have to put on a mask to walk down the street.”
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Swim. – Behind the scenes / day three
Warning, no pool shot this time. Follow them like crazy on Facebook. See also behind the scenes day one and two.
SWIM – Behind the Scenes / Day Three from SWIM. – Short Film on Vimeo.
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Great White sighting covered up by fisheries department ?
This spooky footage was taken on October 21 by a stationary Fisheries camera at a popular dive spot knows as D9 in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia, where a sunken barge lies 3km offshore in 12m of water. The camera was set up to monitor snapper spawning, but shows a big great white circling four times within just a meter of it. It was posted on the WA Divers website and YouTube, but removed a few days later, and now local divers post angry comments, saying they should have been told of the shark sighting. Department spokepeople say that local council rangers and Water Police were alerted, but not the general public, because the creature was a long way offshore and posed no immediate public hazard. Read more here on PerthNow
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What happens when you crack a raw egg 100 feet underwater ?
Two instructors from Go Dive Brisbane dove into 32 meters (about 105 feet) of water with a half dozen eggs to solve this mystery. Lots of strange things happening here! Via geek.com
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Former tennis great Noah accuses Spain in general of doping
In a Le Monde article published today, 1983 French Open champion Yannick Noah accuses Spanish athletes of widespread doping, adding that the only way to level the playing field would be to allow everyone to use banned drugs. “How can a country (Spain) dominate sport from one day to the next”, he asks, “Had they discovered avant-garde training techniques and methods that no one else imagined?”. He notes that Spanish athletes are consistently beefier than French, and says the only conclusion is that they must be doping. Ouch, this of course meets hard criticism immediately, for instance from the French sports minister, telling French TV that the comments about accepting doping were “serious and irresponsible”. Via ESPN Tennis and Yahoo! Sport
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