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  • Dolphins are known mimics, able to make whale sounds because they’ve heard them before. Now a recent study suggest that they can do this even while asleep, and even though they were born in captivity, and therefore never met actually a whale. Researchers from the University of Rennes in France placed underwater microphones in a tank of performing dolphins at the Planète Sauvage dolphinarium to investigate the sounds they make at night, and recorded 25 sound they’d never heard before when the dolphins were thought to be sleeping, some of them very similar to whale songs. The guess is that they picked up the songs from a soundtrack used when they perform, indicating that they may be rehearsing their routines while asleep. Read tecca

    Dolphin - 5

    Image courtesy of Cayusa, CC BY-NC 2.0

  • Fun moment just after the “2nd Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe” June 12-13, 2010 in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. We were on our way for post-race practice, but missed the bus because a (non-swimming) team member was late. So coach decided to use the 20 earned minutes well by going trough today’s program, with Magnus (in the green hat) as translator and demonstrator. That poster in the background was just appropriate ! :-)

    "There is no plan B"

  • John Kapp claims to have found a little piece of the Caribbean off the Sussex coast, about the size of a football pitch and above a foot deep, where he has been swimming for up to three-quarters of an hour in just his swimming trunks in what should be icy waters. He says the water there is about 20ºC (68ºC), and the reason for it being so hot is the nearby Shoreham power station. Read The Argus.

  • “In 1929, Johnny Weissmuller inaugurated the Molitor swimming pool in Paris. This wonderfull art deco building is planned to be destroyed in 2012. This giant collage is a giant tribute to the olympic champ aswell as a bridge between this golden era and today.” 12oz via Upper Playground

  • Pál Joensen happy after winning the 2007 Natwest Island Games 1500 freestyle on the Greek island of Rhodes. His time was 15:48.25 (short course meters), ahead of Guernsey’s Jonathon Le Noury in 16:11.23 and Jersey’s Samuel Fernandes in 16:21.16. He also won the 200 and 400 freestyle in 1:53.60 and 15:48.25 4:00.23 respectively.

    Pál celebrates winning the 2007 IIGA Rhodes 1500 freestyle

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  • Saturday January 21, 2012, the 2nd Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge raised a bit more than $6,100 in pledged donations to the Michigan Special Olympics, when 60 people jumped through a big hole in the ice on Goguac Lake. Air temperature 20ºF (-6.7CºC)), water temperature a bit ‘warmer’ 30ºF (-1.1ºC). See BattleCreekEnquirer.com.

  • It had been 38 years since Nancy Blomquist had swum a single stroke when she picked it up again in 2007, and she couldn’t even swim one length when she started. She had always lived an active lifestyle but didn’t pick up swimming until she was almost forced to four years ago. A knee injury stopped her from biking and walking at about the same time she retired from her full-time job of 18 years, so she joined the Masters Swim Program at Peak Sports Club in Loves Park, Rockford, and now she’s one of the long-distance swimmers for her age group in the U.S. Her advice is simple:

    “I just kept working at it and working at it,” Blomquist said. “But 90 percent of this is just showing up. You just gotta keep showing up.”

    Good motto … let’s hear this song once more !

    Read Rockford Register Star

  • Longhorn Aquatics was hosting its New Year’s Classic, and Lance Armstrong decided to drop by. The seven-time Tour de France champ finished 7th in his heat and 21st overall, clocking a time of 5:08.11, in what he on Twitter said was his first race in 25 years. Read and watch YNN.

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  • Bartal has run my OQT spreadsheet through Google Fusion, resulting in this world map listing all swimmers from each country that have reached the Olympic Qualification Times (in individual events) as of January 17th, 2012, and only the two fastest in those cases where a country has more than two reaching the OQT in an event. A sort of ‘virtual national teams’ listing, provided that the countries would indeed choose these swimmers, based on results only until now, and that no-one had to sit over due to injury or doping sentence or whatever. And totally ignoring the possibility of additional swimmers invited by FINA after reaching the lesser OST-standard.

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