Sunday's Swim Report - Swimming Is Sublime & Other Swim Bits
Sunday, February 09, 2014
Lane 1 - The Province posts "How a B.C. architecture firm is making a splash in public pool design. Indoor municipal pools used to be dark, windowless boxes that reeked of chlorine and were better for cavefish than humans. You dived in, got a swim lesson and left as fast as you could. Not anymore. Pools have been transformed from endless bummers into endless summers complete with spa-like luxuries including Jacuzzis and saunas."
Lane 2 - VVIPTV posts "Olympic Swimmer "Oussama Mellouli" | Interview: VVIPTV."
Lane 3 - The Sydney Morning Herald posts "Bondi's Cyril Baldock, 70, prepares to swim English Channel again. In August, when the conditions are right, Baldock will plunge again into the frigid Channel waters - this time swimming from Shakespeare Beach, near Dover, to Cap Gris Nez. The Bondi local wants to hear those words again - ''Cyril has made it.'' But this time, he will be 70 years and nine months. He wants to become the oldest person to swim the Channel. He wants to beat the world record set in 2011 by Englishman Roger Allsopp when he was 70 years and four months"
Lane 4 - TMZ posts "Mark Spitz My Mustache Was Violated... By Pill Company. No one abuses Mark Spitz's trademark mustache and gets away with it ... so says Mark Spitz, who claims a pill company had the balls to jack his follically-enhanced image to hawk energy pills without permission. The U.S. Olympic legend has filed a lawsuit against New Vitality -- an online vitamin and supplement company that allegedly used an old-school photo of Mark in an ad for one of their products called PowerQ10."
Lane 5 - The Guardian posts "Why swimming is sublime. In this extract from his new book How to Think about Exercise, Damon Young explores the joy and terror of swimming."
Lane 6 - Financial Review posts "Fashion labels look for the right fit for Winter Olympics."
Lane 7 - Russell Athletic posts "Stephanie Rice for Russell Athletic - Q&A. Olympic Champion and Russell Athletic ambassador Stephanie Rice describes her excitement about our new partnership with us and provides an insight into some of her fitness philosophies."
Lane 8 - The Herald Scotland posts "Decades on, swimmer's Olympic and Commonwealth medal feats have never been matched . . .It was on February 6, 1950, that Helen Orr Gordon - or Elenor Gordon as she came to be known - won the 220 yards breaststroke in Auckland."
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