Month: April 2008

WORLD Championship Sports Network (WCSN) will provide live coverage of the 2008 FINA World Short Course Championships from April 9 -13 in Manchester, England. As the official global webcast partner for FINA, WCSN will be providing fans access to the event via WCSN TV and free webcast on www.WCSN.com (for US Viewers) or www.fina.org (for select international viewers).

Source: swiminfo.com

Some train so hard that they have to ice themselves between sets.

ISHOF celebrates women’s history in swimming

As stated in this press release, Swimming South Africa has been informed that during the FINA Swimming World Cup in Belo Horizonte (BRA), swimmer Keri-Leigh Shaw tested positive for the substances Clenbuterol and Ephedrine.

Liam Tancock set a new 50 meters long course backstroke world record this evening, during evening preliminaries of the 200 backstroke at the British Championships in Sheffield. The new record is 24.47, obliterating the former record time of 24.80, that Thomas Rupprath swam in 2003.

Source: Lane 9 News

The Devil’s Pool is a natural (swimable) pool right at the edge of the Victoria Falls in Zambia. Not that you would ever catch me in that death trap.

I truly like that motivational speak, That last 25 when you’re hurting… say I’m a Hurricane, I’m getting to that wall first!

Just take a look at these underwater shots from the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, and read here on Reuters about how he did it.

And suddenly I like it much better.