The Norwegian Swimming Federation losts its bid to turn the old sewer facilities under Festningspladsen in Oslo into a water recreational facility, even after the president himself turned up to fight for it. VG reports that the sewer facilities will instead be turned into a gigantic cinema, which I’m sure will only show crappy movies. Via www.simma.nu/no.
(Winning project Festningen Kino. No no I’m sure it will be good, can’t wait to invite my wife to an evening out in the sewer)
A Yahoo! Sports segment on Janet Evans’ amazing comeback.
There are other videos, like her workout
And her diet
At best, that is 10 times longer than the average “ironman”. They are a bit concerned about ocean currents, I say “No sh** Sherlock”, with that propulsion. Read PCWorld
A good read here on the Gazette.
When Mary Lou Skok came across Adolf Hitler, she couldn’t see evil. She couldn’t see a man capable of murdering millions of Jews. She only saw a dictator.
“He was just like Charlie Chaplin,†Skok recalled. “But he didn’t twitch his mustache.â€
Skok went to the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin as an aspiring swimmer, with $75 in her pocket, with an uncomfortable suit that hardly created optimal performance, with the goal of redemption following retirement after she failed to compete in 1932 in Los Angeles.
She returned with $15, minus a medal, coming within 3.2 seconds of a bronze in the 400-meter freestyle, yet with the memories of the four golds won by the late Jesse Owens and with a new perspective of a Nazi regime advocating the superiority of the Aryan race.
Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/year-125213-memories-old.html#ixzz1YWGQn6VZ
The craze is spreading, brave Ingrid Visser swims with killer whales to capture (beautiful) videos like this below. I’m sure the Orca saw her as a possible replacement dinner, in case it didn’t catch the manta ray ;-) Via stuff.co.nz.
You can look as innocent as you like, I know that you were up to something ! :-)
He coached Laure Manaudou, y’know, via Amaury Leveaux Official.
Gary Hall Senior shares a Race Club secret with us, to use the Rangs Jr by Finis as upper arm flotation devices supporting high elbow position, instead of the original purpose.
Six Japanese men swam 150 kilometers (95 miles) through heavy winds and rough seas to reach the Taiwanese coast Monday in a show of gratitude to Taiwan for its US$260 million aid after the March earthquake and tsunami. Taiwan’s foreign minister Timothy Yang said at a cocktail party to welcome the swimmers, that he was most impressed with the Japanese people’s calm attitude and persistent determination to help each other after the disaster, and that he expects Japan to regain its prosperity soon. Read The Associated Press and Focus Taiwan
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