Last Tuesday April 19, Veronika Popova crushed the Russian record in the women’s 100 freestyle with a winning time of 54.22, clearing Anastasia Aksenova’s 54.70 from the World Championships in Rome 2009. And then yesterday April 22, she again improved greatly upon the 200 freestyle Russian record, with a 1:56.94 clearing the 1:57.96 set by Yelena Sokolova at Roma 2009. Both these new records were at the Russian Long Course Championships in Moscow.
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Bad choice of swimming hole
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Behold Cyanea Capillata, the world largest jellyfish
According to Wikipedia, the largest jellyfish ever discovered was a Lion’s Mane jellyfish, washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870. It had a bell (body) with a diameter of 2.29 meters (7 feet 6 inches) and (poisonous) tentacles 37 meters (120 feet) long. To put that into perspective, the largest blue whale ever recorded was a mere 110 feet long. Via pigjockey.com.
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USA Swimming partners with child protection firm
USA Swimming announced Tuesday a partnership with child protection firm Praesidium on an education program that will be mandatory to the 30,000 of 300,000 members who are not athletes, including coaches and officials. The program will also be offered free of charge to athletes and their parents. Via USA Today.
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A Water-Powered clock
Not exactly powered by water, but using it as a conductive agent, completing an electrical circuit powered by probably a slowly dissolving piece of zinc. Anyways, all kinds of water-powering always sound like the perfect solution for swimming pools :-) See vat19.com.
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Mack Horton, 14 and 15:37.71 in the 1500 free
At the Australian age group nationals in Adelaide yesterday, 14-year-old Mack Horton set an impressive Australian age group record, clocking 15:37.71 in the 1500 long course freestyle. This wiped 10 seconds of his previous age group record in the age-group 14 and below. In comparison, Grant Hackett in 1996 clocked a very impressive 15:30.63 a month before his 16th birthday, finishing 5th at Australia’s Olympic trials then. Read more here on SwimNews.com.
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The CNM Wiz Khalifa ‘Black and Yellow’ remix
‘Blue and Yellow’, featuring Cercle des Nageurs de Marseille team members Grégory Mallet, Fabien Gilot, Bradley Ally, Nabil Kebbab, Giacomo Perez Dortona and Camille Lacourt. Sweet.
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The Shanghai 2011 trailer
Complete with a Chinese crooner and everything. We’ll be there :-)
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The Shanghai food safety information video
FINA and the Shanghai 2011 World Championships organizers have released this video, describing the five measures that the Chinese government and Shanghai government will attend, in order to ensure the food safety for athletes and spectators. Via fina.org.