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.
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Fall River pool so murky that they didn’t see the body on the bottom?
Investigators of the drowning accident last week admit that the water was so murky, that the Veteran’s Memorial Swimming Pool shouldn’t have been opened. 36-year-old Marie Joseph drowned after using a water slide there, but wasn’t found until she surfaced again two days later, even though the pool remained open and used by dozens of swimmers, and was visited by health inspectors on Monday and Tuesday. Read Swimming Pool Safety News.
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Belgrade 2011 Live Streaming is alive (!)
At last, live video feed from the Tašmajdan pool in Beograd. The speaker announced a moment ago that there were 5 minutes left of the warm-up. Go watch!
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Feature Swim РLars Fr̦lander
A The Race Club video from when Lasse Frölander in April 2011 visited the Keys with his swim club from Sweden. That starting block looks a bit wobbly.
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Dutch guys trying out the Plunge For Distance too
The new hot thing to do, apparently, after Wolverines and Wu Peng showed us how. Sebastiaan Verschuren films, Joost Reijns plunges. Now, who will tell them that the dive board is an illegal, technical improvement? ;-)