Tag: swimming
Olympic Swimmers Emulate Sharks & Dolphins
While many Olympians go through excruciating lengths to shed milliseconds off of their race times, the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team have called on a new focus - that is, emulating the natural technique of the best...
Row over fish in urinal
Gives you something to aim at I guess."Row over fish in urinal A Chinese restaurant has been criticised - for keeping ornamental fish in a urinal. The restaurant in Changchun city has...
Penthouses are catching up big time in India
"A penthouse apartment is nothing but an apartment that comes with a private terrace of its own. It is generally built on the topmost floors of high-rise buildings. Since multi-storey apartments are the ‘in thing’ these days, the concept of penthouses has caught on too!...
Hydro-Electric: Oz Swimmers Hitting Hard
Why wait for Beijing for your swimming fix? Eamon Sullivan was p*ssed to have lost his world record to Alain Bernard... so he took it back. meanwhile, Libby Trickett is setting up to become Australia's new freestyle...
Zimbabwean sets swimming world record
Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe’s most successful Olympian has now set a new world record in the 200 backstroke
Kirsty set the record at the Missouri Grand Prix on Saturday the 16th February and the new time to beat is two minutes 6.39 seconds. She finished more than four seconds...
Sydney shark victim left to die by girlfriend
"While on the topic of sharks attacking kangaroos and stupid surfers thinking a busted board tether is a better reason to stop surfing than having just been attacked by a shark come another amazing shark tale… Seems Scott Wright was being dumb and swimming in the surf...
Swimming kangaroos victims of shark attacks
I have seen kangaroos in the surf - they are quite adept at surfing, though not with boards of course."See the amazing video - and sing along to one of Australia’s unofficial national anthems...
In Warm Climates, Pools Breed West Nile
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Swampy swimming pools all over the country — a legacy of the foreclosure crisis — are becoming breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes.
The problem is particularly acute in warm climates like Florida and California, where officials are concerned about the...
Indonesian athletes for Asian Indoor Games arrive...
"Indonesia sent a total of 112 athletes for 13 numbers of sports, 24 coaches, 12 managers and 19 officials.
The 13 sports numbers are aerobics, indoor athletics, bowling, chess, billiard, wall climbing, dance sports, southern lion dance, fin swimming, futsal, hoop takraw,...
The Chinese dolphin might not be extinct
"Scientists declared the white dolphin, native to China's Yangtze river, extinct last year. But there is a shred of hope: the animal may have been spotted swimming in the wild.
Wang Ding, a researcher with the Institute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
Sunken freighter off Ibiza leaking oil
"Ibiza, Spain - More than six weeks after a freighter went down off the coast of the Spanish tourist island of Ibiza, the wreck is again leaking oil, reports said Sunday. A 300-metre-long oil slick washed ashore on...
Shark Caught on Spanish Beach
"MADRID, Spain — Biologists caught a 7-foot-long shark that had become a tourist attraction by making daily incursions into knee-high water on a Spanish beach, wrestling it with their bare hands and dragging it...
Make the ‘Floating Pool’ Permanent
"BROOKLYN WATERFRONT — This past Tuesday morning I had a series of appointments in the Brooklyn Heights area, nothing, alas, having to do with the hunt for breathtaking news. They were all routine medical meetings.
Despite crisp scheduling, I found myself with about 30...
Full swimming pool stolen, not a drop spilled
"Valdivia awoke to find her family's hip-high, inflatable, 10-foot diameter swimming pool gone from her back yard Wednesday [...] without leaving behind a splash, drip or trace of the 1,000 gallons of water it...
Dubai Tower "World's Tallest" and Still Growing
The global measuring contest continues: Builders of the Emirates' newest skyscraper are laying claim to the title of World's Tallest, before construction is even complete. The estimated height of the completed Burj...
