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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Yuliya-Efimova-by-Mike-Lewis-640x426.jpg)
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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ruta-Meilutyte-by-Mike-Lewis-640x426.jpg)
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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Yuliya-Efimova-by-Mike-Lewis-2-640x426.jpg)
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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sarah-Sjostrom-by-Mike-Lewis-2-640x426.jpg)
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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Katinka-Hosszu-by-Mike-Lewis-3-640x426.jpg)
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 in the finals of the 400 free at at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Katie-Ledecky-by-Mike-Lewis-FINA-Worlds-Kazan-3-640x426.jpg)
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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Florent-Manaudou-by-Mike-Lewis-FINA-Worlds-Kazan-3-640x426.jpg)
Florent Manaudou at at the 2015 FINA world championships Kazan Russia (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)
![Warm up act FINA Worlds Kazan Russia by Mike Lewis (1 of 1)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Warm-up-act-FINA-Worlds-Kazan-Russia-by-Mike-Lewis-1-of-1-640x426.jpg)
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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Shane-Tusup-and-Katinka-Hosszu-by-Mike-LEwis-640x427.jpg)
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)](http://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Florent-Manaudou-by-Mike-Lewis-FINA-Worlds-Kazan-2-640x426.jpg)
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.