He won the 100 butterfly in 52.41 and the 400 IM in a for this time of the season impressive time of 4:16.95. Sure helps to see someone swim fast in that strange-looking ‘racing system’. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine here and here
Here’s Michael Phelps talking to the media after 1st night’s 100 fly
And here’s Phelps after 2nd nights 400 IM
In August of 2011, the French Navy threatened to arrest anyone attempting to go in the water off the coast of Teahup’o, Tahiti. Still, absolutely fantastic pictures, shot on August 27th by cinematographer Chris Bryan using a phantom camera.
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Source Mpora via thisiscolossal.com via Buzzfeed
“You’ve got nothing on us,” say the penguins to all those human ‘polar bears’ out there.
Wow, Anthony Ervin is back, posting a 22.30 in the 50 free prelims at the 2012 Austin Grand Prix, best time in the World this year, despite being put in the B-final. Nathan Adrian was second in 22.45. Via The Swimmers Circle
Picture here from a new study freely available at The Physician and Sportsmedicine that took detailed measurements of 40 masters athletes between the ages of 40 and 81, and found a surprising lack of age-related muscle loss.
“This study contradicts the common observation that muscle mass and strength decline as a function of aging alone. Instead, these declines may signal the effect of chronic disuse rather than muscle aging.”
Via Sweat Science, one of the very best sports science blogs out there.
Notice also what one the commenters there has observed: “And check out the bone density difference too. Amazing.”
My opinion: If the water is that hard to come to, then it might not be for you ! :-)
Kurs Vinterbad i Ursviken 2012-01-14 from Olaf Schneider on Vimeo.
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Very informative video here from 2D House, on how they planned and executed their Fstoppers 2011 Behind The Scenes Contest entry, having chosen to make it an underwater swim shoot. Unfortunately they missed the (for a shoot process entry perhaps most vital) submit deadline, and therefore were DQ-ed. But the video is still great :-)
