Month: September 2012
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Rick Curl banned for life, also CUBU coach Noah Rucker indicted
It is all over the news, USA Swimming has banned Hall of Fame coach Rick Curl for life for an improper relationship with a teenage swimmer in the 1980s, who ran one of USA’s largest swim clubs Curl-Burke near Washington, D.C., and coached 1996 and 2000 Olympic gold medalist Tom Dolan, the club most notable…
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A hero’s welcome for Paralympic gold medalist Josef Craig
It was back to school for Paralympic gold medal winner and world record holder Josef Craig Monday– but the cheers are not subsiding. The swimmer’s return to St Joseph’s RC Comprehensive School in Hebburn was marked by a hero’s welcome for the 15-year-old – complete with a red carpet and arriving in the Mayor’s official…
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Ryan Lochte reacts to Seth MacFarlane’s “harsh” SNL skit
Responding to Seth MacFarlane’s impersonation of Ryan Lochte on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, the Olympic swimmer says the actor got him “all wrong.” Read for instance CBS News, Extra, She Knows and College News “I think they got me all wrong on there,” Lochte told Extra at the ALMA Awards. “The whole skit that…
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Swimmer in the middle of a huge school of jumping fish
A school of mullets passed and seemed to surround a beachgoer about 75 yards off shore in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Fortunately, he had his waterproof camera with him. Now, I think I would have hurried to get out of the water, because when fish behave like that, surely ‘something’ is chasing them :-)
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Vega Expeditions – Skiing and Swimming on Svalbard
Did you know that local traveling regulations at Svalbard state that you must always have fireams and protection devices as hand, such as a big-game rifle and tripwire with flares for camping, due to the risk of meeting polar bears? So no skiing and swimming on Svalbard for me, thank you very much. Still beautiful,…
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SOI Unified Puerto Rico
“Supporting the Unified experience in Special Olympics Open Water” SOI Unified Puerto Rico from Bruckner Chase on Vimeo.
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CC photo #264: The Berlin 1936 Olympic Swim Stadium
My dear wife led a school trip to Germany last week, where they among other things visited the 1936 Olympic venue. So she thought I should have a couple of photos of the old Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin, to get that bit closer to completing my New Year’s resolution.
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Seaweed is good for you (and can be tasty, too)
When you think of garage-based tech start-ups, hardware makers like Apple or data-manipulators like Google probably spring to mind before biotech, and way before farming. Lewis Weil, though, has for the last several years been perfecting the art of growing seaweed in central Texas, and his Austin Sea Veggies have garnered interest from gourmets and…