Month: May 2013
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Swimming in the rain
Clever gal, now she won’t get wet, “Susan swimming and singing in the rain in Blackrock, Galway.”
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South African swimmer Myles Brown making waves
“China’s Sun Yang has amazed the long distance swimming world by winning double gold at the 2012 Olympics. He’s without doubt the man to beat in the 400 and 1500 meters.. but there’s a South African who feels he can do just that come Rio 2016. Dan williams reports”
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Strel-swimming ready with a series of 7-day Croatian Island Hopping tours
Borut sends his greetings, Martin and him are back from their Lake Powell spring tours, returning there in October but before then arranging a series of tours in the beautiful Dalmatian coast area of Croatia. Go see strel-swimming.com, the summer trips are almost fully booked. They arrange video analysis also, y’know
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CC photo #514: Training before Rijeka 2008
Just a scene from the training a day before the LEN 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. I remember it as a day focused on getting and trying out ‘supersuits’, some even wearing two at a time.
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Ottesen switching from straight to bent arm recovery
According to Dagens.dk, Danish sprint queen Jeanette Ottesen and coach Shannon Rollacon decided this March to make drastic changes to her crawl technique, including switching from straight-arm to bent-arm recovery. One of the consequences being, that she will not be defending her 100 meter free world championship come Barcelona 2013. – It changes my crawl…
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Irish Swimming goes high-tech with kinematic sensing system
Read Galway Independent, siliconrepublic and Swim Ireland Swim Ireland has teamed up with NUI Galway with a view to developing a new high performance analysis system for competitive swimming. The development work is well under way on the new system which utilises innovative kinematic sensing technology. The new technology which is in test mode is…
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Uruguay Special Olympic team member Pablo Jose Perez drowns in Cayman open water event
Read The Washington Post and Cayman Islands News Police have now named the two men who died in separate water-related incidents this weekend. Pablo Jose Perez Larza, a member of the Uruguay Special Olympic team, who was in the Cayman Islands to participate in the Butterfield 800 meter swim, was found dead in the ocean…
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Ryan Lochte dumped by British girlfriend Jamiee Hollier over phone
Read MailOnline and Daily News Sunday’s episode of “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” shows the 28-year-old Olympic swimmer taking a difficult call from his on-and-off girlfriend, British junior sales manager Jaimee Holler. Lochte turned off his microphone and took the phone call privately. When he returned to the cameras, the medal-winner admitted that Holler had ended their…
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Pellegrini’s beauty secret: Castelmaure’s 2011 Cuvée No. 3
Uh oh, read webflakes After exercise comes comfort, obviously, as Federica also talks about her daily life outside of training to show us that she doesn’t spend her entire life in the water. Thus, the newspaper L’Indépendant published* one of the swimmer’s tweets last week, in which she revealed one of her beauty secrets, namely…