Butterfly looks difficult, but maybe one could manage a couple of kilometers of crawl. See www.michaelphelpsswimspa.com. Via the17thman.
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Shanghai Home Guard getting ready for the summer
Swimming or not, Shanghai resident Wang Kang is too cool to be missed, even though he apparently only built his Ironman Mark 1 suit in order to scare the bejesus out of his telecom coworkers. Via laughingsquid.com.
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Video from Palfrey’s record-setting swim
Video here from Penny Palfrey’s swim between Little Cayman and Grand Cayman, and from the moment when she walked ashore after more than 40 gruelling hours in the sea. She beat the existing record for longest solo unassisted ocean swim by four miles, so that it now stands at 67.25 miles (108.22 km), but her face was unrecognisable from so many hours in the salt water, and she could hardly talk because her tongue and lips were so badly swollen. Not she is quite okay, though, tells compasscayman.com.
Marathon Swimmer Breaks World Record by tvnportalA nice touch was that she was shadowed by a shark, the entire night :-S
“One of the white tip sharks, it just shadowed me the entire night – I could see it sort of five feet away, maybe more,” she said.
“I had the (electronic) shark shield on so it was just outside the range of the shark shield and it was just cruising underneath me all night long.”
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Arena presents: Swimming Clinic with Kirsty Coventry
Kirsty Coventry hosted a Clinic Arena in Rome on November, 9th 2010. The Olympic and World Champion from Zimbabwe, Kirsty Coventry participated in this clinic at the Forum Sport Center in Rome to swim with young swimmers who wanted to learn something from her experiences.
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Gatorade Inside The Edge – Ryan Lochte
“I have that killer instinct because I hate to lose. Something switches in my body and I’m no longer that laid-back Ryan Lochte, I’m that racer. And I will go toe to toe, head to head with anyone in the entire world, anytime.”
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Pestininkas wins first inflatable doll partner race
Lithuanian men took to the water some weeks ago in a race where inflatable sex dolls were used as rafts. This in celebration of “National Men’s Day”, and luckily both men and dolls were properly dressed. Liudas Pestintinkas won the race with his “Vaida”, whom he describes as a good and listening girl, in what I’m sure must be a new world record time. 200 men signed up for the race, but only 20 turned up on the day. I wonder why. Read The Telegraph.
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Navy Seals hardcore moment: Scott Spann
After having qualified for the Beijing Olympics 2008, Scott Spann had problems with his knees, but thought nothing of it. He had it for several months leading into the Olympics, and swam through the Games with it. Afterwards, it turns out his knee had been broken for six months. And then it got worse. Ouch! Via Gold Medal Mel.
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Palfrey sets world record for longest unassisted ocean swim
At approximately 10:07 pm Sunday night, marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey set a new world record by swimming 67.25 miles from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman in 40 hours and 41 minutes. Read more here on compasscayman.com and here on The Daily News of Open Water Swimming.
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Men’s 100 breaststroke at Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2011
The Norwegian Swimming Federation has shared quite a few good videos from the Mare Nostrum meets in Barcelona and Canet, here on youtube.com, focusing of course on the Norwegian participation. The video below is from when Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen won the men’s 100 meter breaststroke, posting a sizzling new meet record of 1:00.29.