Russian yachtsman Sergey Marchenko has been jailed for four and a half years and ordered to pay one million rubles in compensation to a young woman’s family, whom he ran down with a yacht back in 2010, in an area of a Moscow lake reserved for swimmers. The woman became caught up in the propellers and died soon after. Read RT
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The mental challenge of chasing gold
CNN’s Ben Wyatt looks at the psychological challenge faced by top athletes. Via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook
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CC photo #32: My home pool ready for ‘FLOT stevnan 2008’
The 3-laned 16.67 meter swimming pool at Toftir, Faroe Islands, ready for the annual youths-only swim meet. We of course cannot use these pools for officially registered times, but still have few juniors and seniors training here, because of distance to the 25 meter pools.
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The Olympics is a toy event to this 5-year-old
Funny, she’ll probably grow up and dream of having a tattoo with that.
Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old)
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CPH:DOX 2011 – Eva Koch / Mike Sheridan
The neo-classical Øbro swimming hall in Copenhagen was the setting for this live CPH:DOX electronica session with visual accompaniment on November 12, 2011, featuring 19-year-old wunderkind Mike Sheridan and internationally renowned video artist Eva Koch. Hasn’t got much to do with swimming, but hey, it is a nice pool.
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The Danish struck by the travel luck of Bjarnason
So, Pál Joensen is now on his first altitude camp ever, in Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, together with the Danish national team and a few other swimmers. But it was no easy trip from Copenhagen to the Sierras, as they had Pál’s coach Jón Bjarnason with them, who is notoriously unlucky when it comes to flights.
(Pál and Aschwin and others at the High Altitude Training Center of Sierra Nevada)
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Swim and Survive with Eamon Sullivan
1 in 5 kids can’t swim the length of a pool, even if their life depended on it. Help Royal Life Saving reduce child drowning, visit swimandsurvive.com.au.
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CC photo #31: Magnus and Birita at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup
Faroese swimmers Magnus Jákupsson and Birita Debes at the Stockholm leg of the FINA 2010 World Cup series. We are a bit early as you can see, and therefore have plenty of space for practice.
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Learn to swim – Better Health Channel
Featuring Tammy van Wisse and a
not-so-greatup-and-coming swimmer called Tony Shaw. For more information about water safety, visit the Better Health Channel website.