Creature in the Olympic swimming pool?
Amid various athletes taking verbal swipes at each other and the paranoia of network PR types overreacting to 140-character opinions is the beauty of Twitter, photography and swimming at the Summer Olympics — direct from a submerged camera.
Specifically, throughout the swimming competition, the Twitter feed L2012 (@L2012PoolCam) has posted 17 tweets — all stunning images from the bottom of the pool at the Aquatic Centre in London.
The Twitter’s description, without human identification, reads: “I match the world’s best swimmers, stroke for stroke. They speed along on top. I race along the bottom, always looking up – and always wet.”
Here’s another sample:
If you think Yang Sun looks lonely in this one, try living at the bottom of the
#Swimming pool.#London2012 twitter.com/L2012PoolCam/s…— L2012 Pool Camera (@L2012PoolCam) August 3, 2012
The feed has attracted a wide following of more than 17,000 since the Summer Olympics began. And although the swimming competition largely concludes Aug. 4, two events will remain, the women’s 10km on Aug. 9 and swimming’s concluding event, the men’s 10km, Aug. 10.
James Raia is an editor and publisher in Sacramento, California. Visit his site: www.tourdefrancelife.com
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