Alexander Dale Oen, gold medal swimming favorite, found dead in Arizona
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| Norway's Alexander Dale Oen, the defending world champion in the 100 breaststroke and a top contender for a gold medal at the London Olympics, was found dead in his bathroom late Monday night. The 26-year-old, who was training with the Norwegian national team in Arizona, died of cardiac arrest. The country's swimming federation said he was found sprawled on the bathtub. Teammates became worried when repeated knocks on the door went unanswered. A team doctor performed CPR before an ambulance arrived, but the young swimmer was never resuscitated and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. |
Why don't black Americans swim?
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| 'A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a single incident in Louisiana, prompting soul-searching about why so many young black Americans can't swim. When 15-year-old DeKendrix Warner accidentally stepped into deeper water while wading in the Red River in Shreveport, he panicked. JaTavious Warner, 17, Takeitha Warner, 13, JaMarcus Warner, 14, Litrelle Stewart, 18, Latevin Stewart, 15, and LaDarius Stewart, 17, rushed to help him and each other. None of them could swim. All six drowned. DeKendrix was rescued by a passer-by. Maude Warner, mother of three of the victims, and the other adults present also couldn't swim. The... |
Official: Potential UT move to Pac-12 ‘heating up’
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| The Pac-12 appears to be working out the final details of a deal that would bring Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech to the conference, sources close to the situation told Hookem.com and the American-Statesman on Sunday morning. |
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (Must Read Info)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked... |
Fall River Mayor: Body May Have Been In Pool During Two Visits By Inspectors
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| FALL RIVER (CBS) — There’s another strange twist after a woman’s body was found floating in a public pool in Fall River, possibly going unnoticed for days. The mayor of Fall River says “that health inspectors from the City visited the pool on Monday and on Tuesday and inspected the facilities,” which was during the time that body was believed to be in the water. Marie Joseph was at the pool on Sunday and hadn’t been seen since. It wasn’t until Tuesday night, when some kids broke into the Veteran’s Memorial swimming pool and found Joseph’s body floating in the... |
US national swimmer dies in overseas race
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Fran Crippen, a medal-winning open-water swimmer on the U.S. national team, told his coach he wasn’t feeling well late in a race before he died in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday. |
Worlds Deepest Indoor Pool, Cool Photos
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| (click on image above for a larger view) >If you like diving, then you might truly enjoy these photos from the worlds deepest indoor diving pool in Brussels, Nemo33. In the series of photos below you will be presented with images that were taken of A complex designed by Belgian diving expert, John Beernaerts. It is a multi-purpose diving instruction, recreational, and film production facility. Beernaerts's dream of creating the world's first indoor diving complex began as a simple doodle, sketched on a napkin in a Brussels bar. The place is very clean, and set up and maintained to... |
Swimming in chlorinated pools can lead to cancer: study
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| Swimming in chlorinated pools can cause an increased risk of cancer in bathers, Spanish researchers said on Monday. Researchers from the Barcelona-based Centre of Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and Research Institute Hospital del Mar studied changes in indicators of mutagenicity -- permanent mutation of the DNA -- among a group of swimmers in an indoor chlorinated pool. "The evidence of genotoxic effects were observed in 49 healthy adults after swimming for 40 minutes in a chlorinated indoor pool," CREAL said in a statement on Monday. Researchers found indicators of an increase in cancer risk in healthy subjects as well... |
An Obama Joke that Tells Itself...
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| As President Obama is now in Martha's Vineyard for his 6th apparent vacation of the year here is a headline from The Drudge Report: Martha's Vineyard waters contaminated with fecal bacteria .......still no word if he'll be a man and fess up to it. (It's Bush's fault) By the way, while this is going on Drudge leads with... Well, I hope his vacation is as happy as our enemies are about to be. The Looking Spoon is a conservative humor/satire/art/commentary blog, visit www.thelookingspoon.com to see more posts and art |
Come on in, the water's naked: Vegas finds a new way to entice party animals
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| It's the first time a woman naked from the waist up has ever initiated a conversation with me at a swimming pool — well, not counting my daughters when they were toddlers. "Hi," said this fantastically caramel-tanned person, leaning over to put what I'm going to guess were a couple of 38DDs about a foot from my face. "I'm Sara." We were sitting next to each other at the aptly named Bare, the adults-only pool at The Mirage Resort and Casino. Not only was Sara topless — oh, sorry, we're calling it "European style" now — but she was wearing... |
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| The Instinctive Drowning Response – so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) – of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about... |
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning ( Must Read )
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!”... |
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
Posted by admin / Under Swimming (sport)
| The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!”... |
Boy Saves Friend From Drowning, Credits SpongeBob (New Jersey)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| Fun in the sun nearly took a deadly turn. But little hero and his love of a certain cartoon saved the day. Reese Ranceray has dreams of being a reporter. But this past Saturday he became the news by saving a 5-year-old neighbor's life at the Borgenicht family pond... |
Making a splash, the 60-year-old elephant going for his morning swim
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| Gliding gracefully beneath the crystal-clear waters this Asian bull elephant cuts a mystical figure. Weighing 3.5 tons and standing at just under four metres, meet Rajan one of the last surviving elephants who helped with logging on the Andaman and Nicobar Island chain near the end of the Bay of Bengal. Photographed by Cesare Naldi, these amazing images show the unique bond between 60-year-old Rajan and 58-year-old mahout (elephant driver), Nasru. In one spectacular image Nasru is seen balancing on the animals tusks as the elephant took a breather on his morning swim. This particular image and resulting series was... |
Hilarious Video of Dog Going Down Slide Into A Pool
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| This video was emailed to me recently by a friend, who told me that the owners of this adorable dog thought that the neighborhood children were sneaking into their pool when they were gone. So they decided to set up a hidden camera to catch the little pranksters. Only problem is that the prankster turned out to be their dog. The great thing about this video is the way the dog is actually enjoying his frolic down the slide and into the pool so much that he is actually running back up and down the slide time and time... |
Hilarious Video of Dog Going Down Slide Into A Pool
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| This video was emailed to me recently by a friend, who told me that the owners of this adorable dog thought that the neighborhood children were sneaking into their pool when they were gone. So they decided to set up a hidden camera to catch the little pranksters. Only problem is that the prankster turned out to be their dog. The great thing about this video is the way the dog is actually enjoying his frolic down the slide and into the pool so much that he is actually running back up and down the slide time and time... |
Insane Canadian Fishermen (very cool video)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| I like fishing just like anyone, but fishing on a frozen lake is not my idea of a good way to spend the afternoon. No sir, give me a fly rod and a nice river and I can fish all day long. Now these guys have found an interesting way to find out exactly where the fish in the lake are. I would not recommend it, but if you are from the extreme North, then I am sure you have either done it this way or at least contemplated it. Either way you really need to check out this video,... |
Insane Canadian Fishermen (Must see this video, it is too funny)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| One of my favorite pastimes is fishing. Ever since I was a young boy growing up in Northern Minnesota, I have enjoyed the leisure sport of fishing. In the last 5 years I have taken up the sport of fly Fishing and found it to be even more enjoyable then fishing with a reel and worms. I have fished many rivers and in many states across this vast country, but I have never ventured outside of America to fish. I always thought that someday I might like to fish in Canada. Then after watching this video and seeing how they... |
Pool Boots Kids Who Might "Change the Complexion" (Black kids kicked out)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason. "I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor. The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise. |
Paris pool bans Muslim woman in 'burqini' swimsuit
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| A Paris swimming pool has refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a "burqini," a swimsuit that covers most of the body, officials said Wednesday. The pool ban came as French lawmakers conduct hearings on whether to ban the burqa after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the head-to-toe veil was "not welcome" in secular France. Officials in the Paris suburb of Emerainville said they let the woman swim in the pool in July wearing the "burqini," designed for Muslim women who want to swim without revealing their bodies. But when she returned in August they decided to apply hygiene rules... |
FINA Opts To Ban All High-Tech Swimsuits
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| FINA, swimming's world governing body, finally figured out the way to determine which of the controversial long-length, high-tech swimsuits to restrict. On Friday, it banned every last one. With a nearly unanimous vote, FINA's member nations accepted a proposal initiated by the United States to allow only waist-to-knee suits, known as "jammers," for men, and shoulder-to-knee suits for women, beginning in competition next year. |
Phelps tries to move on after stunning loss (swim suit wars)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| ROME – Michael Phelps has four more chances to win gold at the world swimming championships. He's not likely to be satisfied until he gets another shot at Paul Biedermann. In different suits, that is. The unheralded German glided across the water, steadily pulling away from the winningest Olympian ever, and handed Phelps a stunning loss in the 200-meter freestyle Tuesday — his first defeat in a major individual race since 2005. No sooner had they climbed from the water, the debate was on. Was it the man? Or was it the suit? Biedermann acknowledged that he had an edge... |
Ted Kennedy: Forty Years after Chappaquiddick
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| Saturday, July 18th, was the fortieth anniversary of the day that Mary Jo Kopechne drowned at Chappaquiddick (an island part of Edgartown,Massachusetts) in a car driven off a bridge by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.). And, still, questions linger. What did Kennedy do that night? Was he intoxicated? Why wasn’t he prosecuted? The one question still pondered by political observers on all sides: did what is known universally known as “the Chappadquiddick incident” keep Kennedy from being elected President? Clearly, it did. For younger readers who know Kennedy -- now 77 and battling cancer -- primarily as the premier voice... |
My Daughter, 13, Got Pregnant by Swimming in Hotel Pool, Claims Mother
Saturday 26th of May 2012 03:10:00 AM
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| A mother is suing a hotel claiming her teenage daughter fell pregnant simply from using a hotel swimming pool. Magdalena Kwiatkowska says the 13-year-old conceived after coming into contact with 'stray sperm' in the water of an Egyptian resort. |
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