In a time of 1:58.52, ahead of Ryan Lochte in 2:00.30 and Conor J. Dwyer in 2:01.59. Phelps in the Speedo Fastskin3 racing system (but with big awful beard), Lochte in his old trusty banana hammocks :-)
Here’s an interview with Phelps after the race
And here is Ryan Lochte: “An 8th event? – I’m just trying to go for one! :-)”
Skrillex SmashUp by Soror Ordo Ab Chao. They’re everywhere !!
Stay out of the Water ~ Creature Feature (Skrillex SmashUp) from Soror Ordo Ab Chao on Vimeo.
Janet Evans managed a 8:49.05 and 4th in the 800 freestyle today at the Austin Grand Prix, under the Olympic trials cut, behind Sarah M. Henry in 8:40.37, Maureen McLaine in 8:46.50 and Ashley V. Adams in 8:48.73. She says she needs to work on her base, seems a bit, ehm, determined but not so happy about that ! :-)
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Australia’s star swimmer Eamon Sullivan could easily have become just another drowning statistic when, as a toddler, he accidentally rode into his family’s backyard pool. It was only the vigilance of his parents that saved him, and now the 26-year-old repays his fortune by helping Royal Life Saving, Uncle Tobys and Barnados teach disadvantaged children about water safety.
“There are a lot of unfortunate families – the kids escape their view and fall in the pool,” Sullivan said of his own experience.
“I was lucky, I could have been one of the unlucky ones.”
“It is as important a skill as being able to read and write. It is a life-threatening thing if you don’t get it right,” he said.
Read more here in the Daily Telegraph, plus here about why CPR must be taught in schools as part of the national curriculum. See also SwimKids
On how she struggles with the 50, and on how her training in altitude makes her feel like a super-hero when coming down to the flatlands. Courtesy of Gold Medal Mel.
Never thought of that, but this guy on ecademy makes a good point:
In November 2011 a five month old baby diseased after being hit by a loud-speaker that fell from the ceiling of a swimming pool in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Over the past decennia several incidents occurred in swimming pools worldwide due to false ceilings that fell down. Chlorine stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel supports was identified as the cause of failure. When water that condenses on the supports evaporates again, droplets of highly concentrated chlorine solutions are left behind. These chlorine concentrations, combined with temperatures of 35 to 50°C in the upper regions of the swimming pool and the tensions to which the supports are subjected, are an ideal combination to initiate stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel. In most cases the envisaged solution was to replace the stainless steel supports by supports made of other materials, yet the fatal accident in Tilburg shows that this is not yet a common practice everywhere.
Image courtesy of Orin Zebest, CC BY-SA 2.0
They are a youth group called The Living Room, and they obviously know that they are good! Even plan to build wells in Mozambique with www.hungerstrike.org, if this YouTube video of theirs earns any money.
Yeah, that’s the power I hold, to be able to go straight from ‘the good life’ in Southern California, to some Brazilian guy taking a bog bath in a septic tank.
This Saturday January 21st, 2012, Palm Springs Art Museum will open a new exhibition called “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982“, celebrating the iconic backyard swimming pool, forever associated with the Southern California good life.
“The photographs project a happier, supposedly better way of life,†says Daniell Cornell, the museum’s deputy director of art and senior curator who organized the exhibition. “Following World War II was the rise of the nuclear family and the sprawl of suburbia, where backyard pools offered refuge from city life and the threat of communism.â€
Read mydesert.com and Palm Springs Life
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