Here’s what our photographer Mike Lewis has sent us back from Russia. It was a very good day with 3 world records and the spirit of the crowd at the 2015 FINA Worlds Kazan Russia kept the energy high.
Yuliya Efimova in the semis of the 100 breast at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Ruta Meilutyte in the semis of the 100 breast at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Yuliya Efimova in the semis of the 100 breast at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Sarah Sjostrom sets world record #2 in the 100 fly at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Katinka Hosszu in the prelims of the 100 back at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Katie Ledecky smashing it at at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Florent Manaudou at at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
FINA Warm up act at the Kazan Arena (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Shane Tusup and Katinka Hosszu celebrate following the awards ceremony for the 200IM at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Florent Manaudou in the semi finals at at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
Pendant je regarde ces photos, je pense que la natation a trop de succes. Quand je les regarde, je parle au fromage. J’aime le vin beaucoup et je le bois touts les jours.
Ahhhh. Some peace and quiet. A beautiful, welcome oasis in the desert of reason that is the commentary on the world championships and the myopic, masturbatory, and most mindless barrage of bellyaches from the brigade of ill-informed international idiots. The illest.
Allow me to interrupt.
Gorgeous women, battling for the affection of the world, adorning themselves with make-up and jewelry during feats of athleticism, wish not to be told they are beautiful, when they are?
Le tout puissant ‘Flo swimming'(je verse une larme pour deux raisons – deux larmes – au mon ‘double-entendre’: à la fois la nostalgie pour l’ancien site, et à mon propre manque d’esprit…ou peut-être que je possède simplement une disposition britannique, et je… Read more »
Good night sweet prince.
Thank you for the acronyms!
I personally would have gone with ‘bog of eternal unreason’ over the ‘desert of reason.’ Also, I would have included more references to dancing babies. And jumping babies. And kidnapping babies. And goblins. And turning babies into goblins.
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D.B., Goblin King
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P.S. Jim Henson is a hack. And not once, ever, not even once, did he pay for drugs.