Swimmer's Daily

Month: May 2011

  • LEN highlights of 2010

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    Video from the LEN Congress 2011. Warning, it is very pro-european :-)

  • Keating and Sir Branson to swim the Irish sea for charity

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    Cancer Research UK’s ‘The Swim’ is a celebrity-led relay challenge where a group of eight swimmers and celebrities will team up with two members of the public to take on the 56-mile stretch between Wales and Ireland, including Ronan Keating and Sir Richard Branson. The gruelling stretch is almost three times the length of the…

  • The Voice of Swimming

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    5th video in the “Swimmers” web series: “The Voice of Swimming”: They often go unnoticed, though their voices are (literally) ringing in your ears. They are the puppet-masters, the dictators of the pace, tone, and excitement of swim meets. And while you casually watch each race, they scramble behind the microphone, calculating splits, learning pronunciations,…

  • Embarrassing moments in the pool

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    Australian swim stars admitting to their most embarrassing swimming moments, including Grant Hackett revealing that he ended with a tumble turn at the end of his still 1500 meter short course world record 14:10.10 from the Australian Short Course Championships in Perth 2001. Via the17thman.

  • Szczecin 2011 is coming along nicely

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    The Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships will be the biggest sports event organised in Poland in 2011, costing about 1 million euro plus the brand new “Floating Arena” venue. Swedish website simma.nu/se visited the venue last weekend, posting photos and sounding very positive about the outlooks.

  • The death of a swimming pool

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    When the Dagenham swimming pool in East London, England was to be demolished after 32 years in service, they chose a rather different end to its history. Relaunched as a BMX park, Nike 6.0 “The Pool” provides free access from May 16 to June 12, when the venue will be demolished. The pool was closed…

  • Another successful Faroese championships

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    Faroese swimmers broke 13 national records and 22 junior records at the short course championships this weekend, compared to 7 national records and 21 junior records last year, and 7 national records and 13 junior records in 2009. National star Pál Joensen won 13 gold medals and 3 silver medals in total, including the best…

  • US lifeguards top ten (safety) tips

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    Swim Near A Lifeguard: USLA statistics over a ten year period show that the chance of drowning at a beach without lifeguard protection is almost five times as great as drowning at a beach with lifeguards. USLA has calculated the chance that a person will drown while attending a beach protected by USLA affiliated lifeguards…

  • Secrets to a competition swim dive

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    Norway’s European champion in the 50m short course breaststroke and Dubai 2010 bronze winner Aleksander Hetland demonstrates how to do the perfect race dive in swimming. In English :-)