Year: 2012
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UMD Swimming gets more lenient fundraising deadline, might just make it
Maryland athletic department officials have reached a compromise with the swimming and diving teams, giving them more time to raise the $11.57 million or 8 years of operating cost that the university requires in order to spare their program. Now the demand is a series of benchmarks toward the goal, starting with having to raise…
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Swimming South Africa in money trouble
Who isn’t, you might say, but according to the Sowetan, South African swimming is so cash-strapped that some staff members have already started looking for jobs after being told about the federation’s dire need for funding. Service providers have not been paid for three months, but the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Com.ittee has…
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Trickett posts fastest post-retirement 100 free, feels less like a fraud
Libby Trickett managed a time of 54.87 seconds in the heats of the 100 meter freestyle at the New South Wales Championships today, almost a second better than her previous post-retirement best. Via Reuters. “It was quite bizarre really, I really didn’t expect that time,” the 27-year-old told reporters. “Almost 12 months ago I was…
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CC photo #42: Italy’s record setting Rijeka 2008 relay
Italy’s Alessandro Terrin (breaststroke), Mirco di Tora (backstroke), Marco Belotti (butterfly) and Filippo Magnini (freestyle) posing for a photo after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships record setting 4×50 medley time of 1:32.91.
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Wahooo headbands monitor how long swimmers are submerged
The Wahooo® Swim Monitor System is a drowning detection system invented for dark water facilities (but undoubtedly usable also in clearer water), that monitors how long submerged swimmers are under water, and then alerts the lifeguard if the situation gets dangerous. First, when a swimmer is submerged for a preset period of time (considered by…
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Tom Daley & Team GB lip sync ‘Sexy and I know it’
As Tom Willdridge puts it on the Speed Endurance Swimming Blog: “While swimmers are busy training hard, the divers are dancing about on a beach. Typical.”
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Matthew Smyth talks about freediving, yoga and meditation
Matt Smyth of the Freediving center “Apneista” in Amed/Bali, explains what freediving, yoga and meditation have in common and how they can improve our lifes.
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Oklahoma Swimming hosts swim clinic for Native Americans
On Jan. 21, 2012 Oklahoma Swimming held a clinic for Native Americans interested in swimming.
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Frozen sea creaks like if some monster was pushing it
Via Buzzfeed, the sound of frozen sea being pushed against the shore in Odessa, Ukraine.