Lane 1 - CNET posts "Speedo teases, only to disappoint. Yet a visit to Speedo's booth yesterday was somewhat deflating. There weren't any microscopic cameras that slipped easily into one's slip. There weren't any minuscule gadgets that could be whipped out from your Speedos with just the flick of a finger. What I saw was a waterproof mp3 player. Which has been out for a while. In fact, the booth seemed still unfinished, as my picture shows. I think the things in my picture are underwater cameras."
Lane 2 - Dawn.com posts "Pool chlorine tied to lung damage in elite swimmers-study. Competitive swimmers who train at indoor chlorinated swimming pools may have lung changes similar to those seen in people with mild asthma, according to an international study, although there is no evidence those changes lead to actual asthma. To obtain findings published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, researchers from France and Canada compared lung tissue and breathing tests from 23 elite Canadian swimmers, whose average age was 21, to 10 mild asthmatics and 10 healthy people without allergies of the same age. While acting as a disinfectant, chlorine reacts with a wide range of chemicals from human sweat, urine and hair, for example, to form chlorine byproducts, some of which are hazardous to human health. These byproducts are very volatile and can escape into the air above the water. Competitive swimmers are known to inhale large amounts of these chlorine byproducts while doing strenuous exercise in the pool, and exposure to the chlorine compounds in indoor pools may make swimmers more sensitive to other allergens such as pet dander, pollen and dust, wrote Bernard."
Lane 3 - Fully Thorped! The Sydney Morning Herald posts "A flash, a splash and Thorpe rockets past. PETER BAKER was completing his regular swim yesterday, as he had done for 10 or so years, when he suddenly felt the surge of an obviously above-average swimmer repeatedly sweep past him. Taken aback and buffeted by the strength of the backwash, Mr Baker, 60, wondered why such a good swimmer had chosen what he believed was a slower lane at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. But he continued to plough steadily through his laps, oblivious to the attempts of officials to attract his attention." Also from SMH comes "Thorpe may have left his lunge too late for London, says Menzies. UESTIONS have again been raised as to whether Ian Thorpe has left himself enough time for a successful comeback, with former coach Tracey Menzies surprised the swimming great had not come out of retirement earlier in his quest to make the Olympic Games team." A bit more from The Sydney Morning Herald with "Thorpe back in the pool in Melbourne. Thorpe will swim the 100 metre freestyle, in which he will be reunited with fellow returning pool legend Michael Klim, and the 200 metre freestyle, where he will be against one of the rising stars and rival for an Olympic berth, Cameron McEvoy. Thorpe, who will look at competing in Europe in coming weeks, said the modest times he posted in swims when he returned to competition late last year had not affected his confidence of making the team."
Lane 4 - The Telegraph posts "London 2012 Olympics: Fran Halsall shows dynamite comes in small packages. Fran Halsall needs to save 0.3sec to beat the best 100m freestyle sprinters. Duncan White is shown the plan. The balance seems wildly disproportionate – the extraordinary amount of work producing minuscule improvements. As a 100m freestyle sprinter, Fran Halsall deals in fractions of seconds. She undertakes huge volumes of training — 50km a week — and spends untold hours using hi-tech equipment and cutting-edge analysis to refine her technique, all to ensure she gains any tiny advantage she can in the London Aquatics Centre next summer."
Lane 5 - PBS.org posts "In Their 90s, Brothers Still Going for Olympic Gold. These are the things you should know about Bradford Tatum: In the past several years, he's turned 91, overcome a life-threatening bout with colorectal cancer and won more gold medals in the Olympics than he can count. And his biggest competitor at swim meets is his older brother John -- that's right, older brother -- age 92."
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Lane 6 - Nine posts "Trickett feels elite again. It's taken a year, but Libby Trickett now feels like she belongs again. Trickett takes another step in her abridged campaign to defend her Olympic 100m butterfly title when she competes at the Victorian state swimming titles on Friday."
Lane 7 - Bang Style posts "Speedo High Fashion Performance Suits. hough the suit is no longer used for competitive purposes, genius fashion students from the London College of Fashion, University of Falmouth and the University of Huddersfield have taken these suits from the swimming pool to the runway."
Lane 8 - Bettor.com posts "Water polo match between Australia and USA ended in a tie: Day four – 2012 Men’s Pan Pacs, Melbourne. Australia and USA have remained unbeaten throughout the tournament as their match ended in a draw on fourth day of the 2012 Men’s Pan Pacs at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, on Wednesday, January 11. The arena was very excited about the match, as two toughest teams of the tournament were going to compete with each other in their fourth water polo match of the competition. Surprisingly, the match ended in a 6-all draw."
