Month: April 2012
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95-year-old sets US national record in the 1,000 freestyle
Thursday at the 2012 US Master’s Spring Nationals, 95-year-old Anne A Dunivin set a US Masters national record, completing the 1000 yard freestyle in 50:44.12, first person across the nation to complete that distance in the 95-99 age bracket. Via digtriad.com
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CC photo #120: Roma09 poster at Fiumicino Airport
An Enel commercial greeting people arriving at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, back in 2009. Always nice to have these things greeting the swimmers.
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Reporter accidentally dunks $2000 (non-waterproof) microphone in water
Sweet, while filming a live segment for “Good Day Sacramento“, testing the durability of a waterproof iPhone case, reporter Melissa Cabral forgot that her $2,000 microphone was not similarly equipped, diving down to fetch the phone. Via The Clicker
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London 2012 must-see top-5 list includes the men’s 200 IM and 4×100 free
Nice, the Local 10 / Internet Broadcasting “5 must-see events at 2012 Olympics” includes not one but two swimming events, alongside the obligatory men’s 100m running event, the women’s gymnastics individual all-around, and the women’s beach volleyball final. Personally, I rate the classic marathon higher than at least the beach volleyball, and the men’s 400…
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Freediving adventures in Iceland
Freedive UK took a small group of freedivers to experience some truly diving in Iceland, the land of fire and ice. Things that didn’t make the video: Eating rotten shark, naked cliff jumping, eating Harðfiskur and Skyr, bathing in 44C thermal spas, …
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Cielo smashes the 50 butterfly world record
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio, Brazil’s Cesar Cielo demolished Roland Schoman’s world textile record of 22.86 from 2005, Cielo managing a Brazilian and South American record of 22.76 ahead of Nicholas Dos Santos in 22.79, Dos Santos owning the now former record of 22.87. They say that there was quite a bit of…
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CC photo #119: Warm-up at Køge Open 2007
Just a photo from the 2007 Køge Open meet in Denmark, sort of the ‘B-meet’ of the Danish Short Course Championships, held at the same time for those swimmers who didn’t qualify for the championships, plus a few foreigners like us the Faroese and some Swedes. Camera my old trusty Nokia N93, why was it…
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Ottesen smashes the 50 butterfly world textile record
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio yesterday, Jeanette Ottesen demolished the Danish record in the women’s 50 butterfly, with a 25.29 beating her own record of 25.69 from the 2010 Europeans in Budapest. It is a 3rd best time in the world ever, and the fastest ever in textile, Therese Alshammar owning the now…
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MIT create anti-fogging, glare-free, self-cleaning glass
Researchers at MIT have developed a new surface texture that, when applied to glass, produces a kind of glass that removes reflections, is free of glare, doesn’t fog, and has a surface that causes water droplets to bounce off like rubber balls, drawing whatever dirt on the surface with them. So I’m thinking goggles, goggles,…