On how she struggles with the 50, and on how her training in altitude makes her feel like a super-hero when coming down to the flatlands. Courtesy of Gold Medal Mel.
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Banning chlorine would improve swim safety by lowering the corrosion risk
Never thought of that, but this guy on ecademy makes a good point: In November 2011 a five month old baby diseased after being hit by a loud-speaker that fell from the ceiling of a swimming pool in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Over the past decennia several incidents occurred in swimming pools worldwide due to false ceilings that fell down. Chlorine stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel supports was identified as the cause of failure. When water that condenses on the supports evaporates again, droplets of highly concentrated chlorine solutions are left behind. These chlorine concentrations, combined with temperatures of 35 to 50°C in the upper regions of the swimming pool and the tensions to which the supports are subjected, are an ideal combination to initiate stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel. In most cases the envisaged solution was to replace the stainless steel supports by supports made of other materials, yet the fatal accident in Tilburg shows that this is not yet a common practice everywhere.
Image courtesy of Orin Zebest, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Epic 6 pass trick shot in a swimming pool
They are a youth group called The Living Room, and they obviously know that they are good! Even plan to build wells in Mozambique with www.hungerstrike.org, if this YouTube video of theirs earns any money.
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Crazy dude swimming in a septic tank
Yeah, that’s the power I hold, to be able to go straight from ‘the good life’ in Southern California, to some Brazilian guy taking a bog bath in a septic tank.
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“Backyard Oasis”, the Palm Springs Art Museum swimming pool exhibition
This Saturday January 21st, 2012, Palm Springs Art Museum will open a new exhibition called “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982“, celebrating the iconic backyard swimming pool, forever associated with the Southern California good life.
“The photographs project a happier, supposedly better way of life,†says Daniell Cornell, the museum’s deputy director of art and senior curator who organized the exhibition. “Following World War II was the rise of the nuclear family and the sprawl of suburbia, where backyard pools offered refuge from city life and the threat of communism.â€
Read mydesert.com and Palm Springs Life
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Swimming-Japan unveils new Kitajima for London Olympics
Called the Kosuke Kitajima Mark II, it … Naah, kidding, his name is Akihiro Yamaguchi, and he’s 17 year old. World junior champion from Lima 2011 in the 200 breaststroke, predicted to make a big splash at this year’s London Olympics, with even bolder targets himself, saying “I plan to win gold”. Even Kitajima’s mentor Norimasa Hirai believes the youngster could spring a shock in London, being quoted for saying “I haven’t seen anything like him since Kosuke so it’s exciting” … “Kosuke is more about pure speed but (Yamaguchi) has real spring and incredible stamina.” Read more here on Reuters
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Flying Devil Rays
♪ You will get the hang of it, I know it. You will get better and better, I know it. If you keep practicing, you can get better and better as you do it. ♫
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CC photo #16: Pál’s 1500 silver medal from Budapest 2010
This is what we’re fighting for. This and national pride in general :-)
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Nathan Adrian scorches the 2012 Austin Grand Prix 50 free
1st in 21.94 (long course meters), second man Frédérick Bousquet in 22.05, and Anthony Ervin (!) number three in 22.27. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine