Year: 2011
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Michael Phelps used to be scared to put his head in the water
There you go, anything is possible: “I started swimming at seven. The first couple of years I was afraid of putting my face in the water. I just wasn’t comfortable. Eventually I just put it in and off I went.” Via 2012olympicsblog.co.uk
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USA announces its 2011 Duel in the Pool roster
USA Swimming is lining up a lot of its very best swimmers, to compete against an European All-Star team at the 2011 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool on December 16-17. For instance Amanda Beard, Natalie Coughlin, Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer and Kate Ziegler, and Tyler Clary, Mark Gangloff, Brendan Hansen, Ryan…
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Penny Palfrey takes on the Cuba to Florida challenge
If I’m not mistaken, we have a race on our hands, with Diana Nyad continuing to chase her ‘Xtreme dream’ to swim from Cuba to Florida, and now also Penny Palfrey planning to swim from Cuba to Florida in June 2012. Palfrey has the world record for the longest solo unassisted ocean swim without a…
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Cadbury Dairy Milk presents Simply the Best
Featuring Rebecca Adlington, an opera singing Royal Guard, a sausage seller and others, almost all of them underwater. Mmm, Cadbury, via shootonline.com.
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Swimming prohibited only in swimming area ?
And prohibited during swimming hours, see rule No. 3. Sign found in Okinawa, Japan, picture courtesy of Daam Nillan, via Engrish.com.
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Open Water Swimming testing the FINIS Ankle Strap Cord
Mike Lewis from OpenWaterSwimming.com testing the FINIS Ankle Strap Cord, an adaption of the classic hip belt.
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Introducing Swim Kids lessons with Grant Hackett and Eamon Sullivan
Wow, Uncle Toby’s isn’t just oatmeal and fumbling sprinters, presenting 6 video lessons with Grant Hackett & Eamon Sullivan. See www.swimkids.com.au
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Geoff Huegill on Ian Thorpe’s comeback
I’ve been in a minibus with this guy and Eamon Sullivan as late as in Stockholm in October, it was even more mini with them in it :-) VIDEO: Can Thorpe beat Huegill? Also in these news, Eamon Sullivan is surprised that he maybe gets to race Ian Thorpe already now … and calls butterfly…