Swimmer's Daily

Month: June 2011

  • Independent SPARC review scolds Swimming New Zealand

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    Swimming New Zealand’s high performance environment was today described by an independent Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) review as negative and with a culture of distrust and lack of confidence in its leadership. The role of SNZ’s high performance manager Jan Cameron has come under particular fire, to the point where one of the…

  • This ad is supposed to sell something

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    I just wonder what (and now fear the ocean). Source ec.europa.eu via England Expects

  • Nightsurf

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    What an amazing video. As someone comments here on Vimeo, “the moon and stars were a bit too much for me.” And then the director answers, “Thanks Otis but there is no intention to simulate reality.” :-) Nightsurf from Iker Elorrieta on Vimeo.

  • Charlene Wittstock to marry Prince Albert II of Monaco in July

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    South African backstroker Charlene Wittstock met Prince Albert II, the sovereign of Monaco, at the Mare Nostrum 2000 meet in Monaco. She participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, moved to the principality in 2006, retired from swimming in 2007, and is now to marry the prince on July 1st and 2nd 2011. Here is a…

  • How about a pool in your living room ?

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    Evelyn McMurray Van-Zeller is selling her Manhattan mansion for just under $11 million, including this living room with built-in pool, six bedrooms, a garden, a gym, a sauna, five bathrooms, five fireplaces and a second pool for the owner’s turtles. ‘You fell like you’re on a permanent holiday’, she says, ‘there is almost no reason…

  • 52-year-old Fry sets record for fastest swim from Manhattan to NJ and back

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    Yesterday, 52-year-old Elizabeth Fry swam the 17.5 miles from Battery Park in Manhattan to Sandy Hook, NJ, in only 4 hours, 59 minutes and 2 seconds, 7 minutes and 2 seconds faster than the record set by Australia’s Tammy van Wisse in 2006. And then she swam back, becoming the first person ever to complete…

  • Truck plunges into Georgia swimming pool

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    Police say the driver of an AT&T truck ran off the road after going into a diabetic coma. With the man unconscious, the truck crashed through a backyard fence and into a pool where 12 people were swimming, including kids. Luckily, nobody was hurt. Source abc7.com.

  • Palfrey recovering well after record-breaking swim

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    Penny Palfrey was released from hospital Tuesday morning after being hospitalised for a day and a half from her epic 40 hour and 41 minute swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman. “The swelling is already gone and she’s starting to look like herself”, her husband Chris Palfrey said Monday evening. Turns out now afterwards…

  • Gaddafi gets 1000 tickets to the London Olympics

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    Troll alert, while swimmers get to buy tickets for only one family member at the London 2012 Aquatics Centre, and others like Rebecca Adlington’s parents have been cheated out of theirs, the Libyan regime has successfully requested close to 1,000 tickets, co-ordinated by the Gaddafi family. The Mayor of London describes is as “successful” that…