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  • Comment “Ice bath pain 11 degrees“, sure hope those are Celcius and not Fahrenheit! :-)

  • Casemovie of a promotion for the Audi lane assist in several swiss swimmtraining-camps

  • While the 22-year-old is an integral part of the British Swimming team she is actually trained by her father Patrick and chooses to stay up in Aberdeen as opposed to training at one of the National Performance Centres like the rest of the British Swimming team.

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  • A year ago ago Gregg Porteus decided to follow the progress of NSWIS swimmers Geoff Huegill, Eamon Sullivan and the Abood brothers Matt and Andrew as they prepare for the Olympic trials starting in Adelaide today. Read here on The Telegraph

  • Already under enormous pressure as the headline act of this week’s Australian national trials, Ian Thorpe was forced to wade into controversy today over preferential payments. But there wasn’t any, he says, “Firstly, I haven’t been paid a cent, its been clarified by a number of people that what’s been reported isn’t factual.” … “There hasn’t been any preferential treatment, as such, given. There may be a higher cost because I’m training outside (Australia) and it’s not shared amongst a number of athletes, that’s it.” Read Reuters

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  • A photo taken with my Sony Handycam during the 2008 European Junior Swimming Championships opening ceremony in Belgrade, Serbia. See www.tasmajdan.rs

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  • Leisel Jones who is attempting to become the first Australian to compete at four Games revealed Tuesday that she had been battling an ear infection since the New South Wales titles last month, where she was well below her best. She says her ear is “95 percent” but admits it is not the ideal lead-up to the trials, with 100 meter breaststroke staring on Friday.

    “Being a swimmer, it’s definitely not ideal to have a middle ear infection because it just doesn’t get better,” the Olympic breaststroke champion told reporters on Tuesday, saying she had been trying to fight off the problem for two to three weeks.

    “It affected my balance, it still does a little, so it’s probably not really ideal but we’ve done the best we can.

    “I’ll be holding on to the blocks very, very tightly so, if you see me wobble outside the pool, I’m not drunk – I’m just a little bit off balance.”

    Via The Chicago Tribune and ABC

  • Beaches off Perth, Australia, were closed Monday because of the sighting by a helicopter crew of a massive shark feeding frenzy. Video footage shows dozens of sharks, mostly blacktip and bronze whalers, in a spectacular assault on schooling bait fish and small tuna. See GrindTV

  • Pretty good video here shot on an iPhone 4 at the British Olympic Trials on Friday, 9 March 2012. If you look closely, you’ll notice a flash of red light on one of the center lanes at 0:31, that must be the light signal that Craig Lord mentions here on SwimNews:

    The first swimmer home gets one light, the second two, the third three, while the lights do not come on for any other lanes. The effect is immediate, so in a 50m dash in which 0.02sec splits the first three men home, the winner can been identified more quickly by the instant light show on the blocks just above the place that everyone is watching rather than the display on the scoreboard.

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