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Category: Fun

  • Baby seal hitching the wrong ride

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    “Excuse me, but could you go any more slower?” :-)

  • Peirsol on Crippen, open water and retirement

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    ESPN caught up with now retired Olympian Aaron Peirsol, at the 10K Crippen SafeSwim in Fort Lauderdale, honoring Fran Crippen by doing what he lived for – racing in the open water. Peirsol turns out to be an eager open water swimmer, still swimming 3-4 days a week while enjoying his retirement. Via espn.go.com.

  • The Big Splash has launched

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    British Swimming announce today the launch of “the world’s largest celebration of swimming”, the Big Splash partnership between the BBC and British Swimming stretching 10 months, seeking to inspire the UK to get into the water. The first major event will be The Great Salford Swim on Sunday 15th May when thousands of swimmers including…

  • Berlin swimming pool hosts underwater opera

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    “Aquaria Palaoa” is the brainchild of Claudia Herr, a champion swimmer in her youth before turning to singing. Playing the lead role, she dives into the Stadtbad Neukölln pool in her green evening dress, oxygen tanks strapped to her back, to sing underwater with the whale-like sounds she produces transmitted onto speakers situated around the…

  • This pool is an illusion

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    This is not a real pool, but an art installation created by the Argentine sculptor Leandro Erlich. He constructed a full-size pool, complete with all its trappings, including a deck and a ladder, where a large, continuous piece of acrylic suspending water on top creates the illusion of a real swimming pool full of water.…

  • George Bovell uses spearfishing as cross-training

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    Right, following that Morning Swim Show interview, I had to go straight out and find that “spearfishing cross training” that they were talking about, and that George Bovell III even thinks gives him great adaptation, enjoying a weekend of diving 90 feet deep in strong current while breath-holding. Via georgebovellswimming.com. spearfishing cross training from George…

  • Ian Thorpe at the Royal Wedding

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    Ian Thorpe is said to be “extremely humbled and overwhelmed” at receiving an invitation from the future King of England, who he has met only once at a Kirribilli House reception in 2009 when the Prince expressed an interest in Thorpe’s Fountain of Youth charity. Via scaq.blogspot.com and dailytelegraph.com.au. VIDEO: Thorpedo arrives at Abbey

  • Sewer to be swimming pool in Norway

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    Norway’s Forsvarsbygg will announce on 2 May, who gets to rent the old sewer facilities under Festningsplassen in Oslo, very intriguingly described as more or less not used since 1979. Two cinema companies want to build Norway’s biggest cinema there, while the Norwegian Swimming Federation want to turn them into a 4000 square metre big…

  • Bad choice of swimming hole

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