TOP 100 WATERSPORTS SITES
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| [TS] A Fresh Stretch of Sea and Sand Just for Those Who Surf the Waves The New York Parks Department made life a little easier for the city’s surfers by opening a second surf-only beach in the Rockaways. select.nytimes.com |
1,200-lb horse saved from swimming pool (AP via Yahoo! News) A 1,200-pound horse is safe after rescuers used a wrecker to pull the animal from a swimming pool at a Knoxville home. Mountain, an award-winning show horse, was pulled out a little more than two hours after owner Deborah Black found him shivering in the pool Tuesday. us.rd.yahoo.com |
High school swimming: Roosevelt dominates Metro meet (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index) Roosevelt dominated the CIML Metro girls' swimming meet, winning nine of the 12 events. The Roughriders' talented freshman class often topped the medal stand with Eno Augustine-Akpan winning two races, and Jenny Wang and Annie Sullivan winning individual titles. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Freestyle World Record Eamon Sullivan of Australia broke the 50-meter freestyle world record, finishing in 21.56 seconds to better the mark set by Alexander Popov of Russia in 2000. Sullivan took eight-hundredths of a second off the previous record at the New South Wales Open meet, held at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center. Sullivan took nearly a half-second off his personal-best time. nytimes.com |
Scrutiny of Suit Rises as World Records Fall Described by some as “drugs on a hanger,” the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit has been worn by 22 of the last 23 swimmers to have set world records. nytimes.com |