Swimmer's Daily

Year: 2011

  • 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 :-)

  • Is ASCA doing business fraudulently ?

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    Hard accusations here on curbnorthside.blogspot.com, concerning the business operations of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA), SwimAmerica, World Swimming Association (WSA), … ASCA is listed as a foreign corporation in Florida. Foreign, in corporation lingo, means not incorporated in the state. I originally had images of a corporation concealing their finances in Grand Cayman. It…

  • Europe wants its own Olympics

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    IOC member Patrick Hickey is proposing a “European Games”, thought to have backing of IOC president Jacques Rogge, and likely to be put to a vote in November, with the support of 47 of the 49 European National Olympic Committees. The reason being that other continents already have their own Games with Pan American Games,…

  • Lochte’s Laws

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    1) Listen to you coach, 2) Set goals, 3) Have fun!

  • Faroese keep on setting national records

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    Faroe Islands hasn’t seen the same stagnation in records now after the supersuits were banned, as most of the rest of the swimming world. Since the ban in January 2010 the Faroese swimmers have set 42 Faroese records and 127 junior records in 2010, plus Pál Joensen’s Nordic record of 14:56.90 in the 1500 meter…