Month: June 2011
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Palfrey close to a shark attack during 68 mile solo swim
48-year-old mother of tree and grandmother of one Penny Palfrey is at this moment more than a day into a 67-68 mile (107) solo swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman, in an attempt to set the world record for longest ever unassisted ocean swim. And meeting the wildlife apparently, having sighted a white tip…
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Janet Evans breaks two world records at first meet since 1996
Swimming legend Janet Evans broke two world masters records on Saturday, in her first competition since the 1996 Olympic Games. First, Evans clocked 4:23.82 in the 400 meter freestyle, besting the previous world record for the 35-39 age group of 4:26.17, set in 1997. And then later, she shattered the world masters record in her…
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Swimmers are bigger today, says Thorpe
Five-time Australian Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe cannot return to competition before November, but came to the Mare Nostrum 2011 meet in Monaco with coach Gennadi Tourtski from his training base at Tenero in Switzerland. Asked how he sees his current capabilities compared with when he dominated the sport, he says “I’m physically not ready…
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Women’s 200 IM at Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2011
Womens’ 200 individual medley at the 32è Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona de Natació 2011. Australia’s Alicia Coutts wins in 2:09.68, Spanish Mireia Belmonte is 2nd in 2:12.55, and Great Britain’s open water swimmer Keri-Anne Payne is 3rd in 2:13.99. Coutts’ winning time was the best female performance on the Barcelona leg (934 FINA points),…
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Janet Evans is making a comeback (!)
Janet Evans walked away from swimming after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, with her gold medals and world records that stood for many many years, morphed into a spokeswoman, got married and had two kids. Now in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, 39-year-old Evans revealed that she’s been training hard for the past six…
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Cayman’s Brett Fraser receives kudos for brain power
Two-time NCAA swimming champion and Olympian Brett Fraser from the Cayman Islands has now also earned recognition as an Academic All-American. To be considered for that award, a student-athlete must have achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30, be at least a sophomore academically and be a starter or key player on the team. Brett…
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This is how swimmers do pushups (!)
Yeah yeah, we are slow and dorky and have no balance. Kudos Wolverines !
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Polarized filters are perfect for water shots
If you want to take photos through surface glare into water, or just want to cut down surface glare, you are going to need a polarized filter. This otherwise beautiful video doesn’t demonstrate exactly that perfectly, so I added a comparison photo that demonstrates it better. By the way, you can get the same effect…
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Someone trying out the new Michael Phelps video game
The 17thman has found this video of someone from gaygamer.net trying out the new “Michael Phelps: Push The Limit” game for Xbox 360 with Kinect. My comment is ‘Oh, the humanity, look at those elbows!’ Seriously, if the game allows you to keep up with the world’s best with that technique, then it is more…