My dear brother teases me that as royal correspondent for the Swimmer’s Daily, I cannot just quit at the wedding. So here you are, the moment when they married, now we’ll go searching for their honeymoon pictures :-)
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Ryan Lochte says ‘work on you core!’
Wait a minute, Lochte does abs every Monday, Wednesday, Friday FOR AN HOUR ?!? That is as much time as Steve West spends on SWIMMING ! :-)
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NASA testing a wee-wee to sports drink recycling bag
Soon we can stop fighting for water at the refrigerators, and instead just pee in a special bag, wait for 4-6 hours, and then have perfectly drinkable sugary sports drink to enjoy. No external power needed, because it relies on the passive property of fluids called forward osmosis. NASA will make an astronaut test this on the Atlantis leaving this Friday, with a blue potassium-rich solution instead of pee, which I feel is a bit chicken.
Via Wired.com.
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Hong Kong planning a beautiful, climatic-responsive swimming pool
Comprising a 50m indoor heated-pool with 960-seat spectator stand and an outdoor 25m teaching-pool, Tung Chung Swimming Pool will be a public facility for residents in Tung Chung New Town in the suburban area of Hong Kong. The design takes the concept of a sea shell resting on the shore, and using a double-layer PTFE tensioned membrane over a steel truss system, the building will allow daylight to infiltrate it so that, in all seasons, user staying indoor can bathe in diffused and glare-free natural light. Read more here on World Architecture News, via inhabitat.com.
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Cullen Jones almost drowned as a kid
Alright, I’ve learned that he had a bad experience as a kid, but didn’t know that it was so bad that he had to be resuscitated. Read theadvertiser.com, and let’s support his efforts to encourage more people to learn how to swim.
At an amusement park in Pennsylvania when he was 5, Jones almost lost his life when an inner tube he was riding on flipped over.
“I was completely supervised,” said Jones, who spoke with hundreds of youth in Shreveport in 2010 and shared his story. “My parents were right there watching me and the lifeguards were watching me and I almost drowned. I had to be completely resuscitated.”
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Incredible: Swiss four-way tie for the 50 fly title
At the Switzerland Summer Long Course Championships last weekend, the incredible thing happened that 4 men finished in exactly the same time, resulting in all 4 or them winning the 50 butterfly, with no silver or bronze medalist. The lucky four were Christian Schneiter, Nico Van Duijin, Maximilien Bon and Adrien Perez, all touching in 25.15. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine here and here.
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The Incredible Swimming Choir
“The Incredible Swimming Choir is a concert that takes place in a pool and was created to be enjoyed by 0-4 year olds and their adults.” Que? See Vimeo.com.
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The Blob Jump Guinness World Record is now 17 meters high
Set in Cham, Switzerland on June 24th 2011, see paintballfarm.ch. I declare it crazy !
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Should you really wait 30 minutes after eating to swim?
MythBusters here proving what I guess all real swimmers know by necessity.