Month: July 2013
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CC photo #555: Jakabos and Li at the Berlin 2012 World Cup meet
Hungary’s Zsuzsanna Jakabos and USA’s Celina Li readying themselves for the women’s 200 IM at the FINA 2012 World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. There was a slight difference in height, also without Jakabos stretching out. See the result list here.
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Swim The Island – The Ultimate Sea Water Experience
“Be fast, be wild, be cool. A great water experience.” See swimtheisland.com
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We’ve Tested the Waters – Training Bikinis for Athletes by Lo Swim
See this Kickstarter fundraiser. It looks very interesting, but supporters please move fast to help them launch this product, as their deadline is running out in 4 days. Lo Swim was launched in 2009 by Sheeva VanGemeren and Annie Babicz with the Signature Training Bikini. As former college swimmers, (UC Davis and Cal, respectively) we…
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Fourth consecutive win for Bosphorus Cross-Continental champ MusluoÄŸlu
Read Hürriyet Daily News and see bosphorus.cc Hasan Emre MusluoÄŸlu from Turkey received the gold medal among the 1,532 swimmers at the 25th Bosphorus Cross-Continental Races yesterday in Istanbul, marking his fourth consecutive win. Another Turkish swimmer, BertuÄŸ ÇoÅŸkun, and Russia’s Evgeny Bezruchenko came in second and third respectively. MusluoÄŸlu finished the 6.5-kilometer race across…
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Chris DeSantis moves on to Gentofte Swim Club
Gentofte Svømmeklub announces today that Chris DeSantis will be their new head coach starting 1 August 2013, now with their current head coach Stefan Hansen moving on to become assistant head coach at the National Training Center. DeSantis is well known also as blogger for instance at The Swim Brief. ‘Chris will get to use his…
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CC photo #554: Stefan Nystrand at Debrecen 2012
Sweden’s Stefan Nystrand ready for the men’s 100 meter freestyle semifinal at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He was joint ninth with Italy’s Michele Santucci, see the result list here.
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Largest algae bloom ever recorded in China turnes the Yellow Sea green
See for instance The Guardian The largest algal bloom ever recorded in China has turned the Yellow Sea green and may be related to pollution from agriculture and industry. Officials in the city of Qingdao had used bulldozers to remove 7,335 tonnes of the growth from beaches according to the Xinhua news agency. The phenomenon…
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World’s first: Google Glass swims in New York City’s East River
They are waterproof, y’know http://youtu.be/kOaVNtdwKTM
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Madison Kennedy – The Swimmer Calendar 2014 Photoshoot
Featuring (of course) Madison Kennedy, see www.swimmercalendar.com Madison Kennedy from Andrew Day on Vimeo.