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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FINA appeals César Cielo and the others’ doping case
FINA has decided to appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) the decisions of the Doping Panel of the Brazilian Aquatic Sports Confederation, in the matters of positive doping tests to the substance Furosemide for the swimmers César Cielo Filho, Henrique Barbosa, Nicholas Santos and Vinicius Waked. The athletes are presently not suspended and the appeal will, in principle, have no effect of suspending their right to participate to events pending a decision from CAS. Read more here on FINA.org. Via SwimNews.com.
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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? ;-)
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Woohoo, Magnus Jákupsson is in a European semi-final (!)
Our guy Magnus Jákupsson managed to swim a new Faroese record of 25.00 in the 50 butterfly this morning at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade, qualifying for the semi-finals this afternoon in 12th best time. He swam in the very first heat, having no official long-course time since last year because of our problems with having no long-course pool in the Faroe Islands. Magnus is only a first-year junior yet.
(Magnus and his father Jákup at the Tašmajdan pool in Belgrade. It is Magnus to the right)
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Skaters mess up a perfectly good swimming pool
I don’t like this trend, with skaters and bikers taking over our pools ! ;-) Via neatorama.com
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Water shot at 7,000 FPS
Video of water at 7,000 frames per second. No wonder we love it. Via geekologie.com.
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