Month: January 2014
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FOX 4 Team of the Week: Park Hill South girl’s swimming
See fox4kc.com Our FOX 4 HyVee Team of the Week is on the Missouri side this time around. The swimmers at Park Hill South might hold the metro’s best shot of winning a state championship in girl’s swimming. Watch Jason Lamb’s full report.
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Yuliya Efimova’s medical advisor reacts to her positive doping test
See DAASM Yuliya Efimova’s Medical Advisor and Conditioning Coach about Substance Abuse Dr. Dr. Homayun Gharavi, medical advisor and conditioning coach in professional Sports, on the breaking news about Yuliya Efimova’s positive doping test DAASM: You have been working with Ms. Efimova’s as her personal physician and conditioning coach for a few years now. What…
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Yuliya Efimova tests positive for doping
According to sovsport.ru (and originally Vedomosti), Russian breaststroker Yuliya Efimova tested positive for dehydroepiandrosterone in an unannounced test in October, while preparing for a FINA meet. Dehydroepiandrosterone is a natural steroid found in dietary supplements, that apparently is used to normalize body weight and balance hormones. According to sovsport.ru, the B-sample has not yet been…
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Gidropark in Kiev, Ukraine is the manliest gym ever
Behold the “Gidropark” free-access outdoor gym in Kiev, Ukraine, nicknamed “Cook’s Island” after founder and for almost half a century maintainer Yuri Cook. All equipment built out of scrap metal and stuff and chained to avoid theft. Awesome! http://youtu.be/GW3XZmigQBw Gym Gidropark Kiev in kiev Featured image found here on Panoramio
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A swimmer, a coach and two crushed Olympic dreams
Read The Stanford Daily Chad La Tourette is five laps away from making the Olympics. It’s the 1,500-meter freestyle finals on the last day of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., where the nation’s top 2,000 swimmers have gathered to compete for just a handful of spots on the U.S. Olympic team. […]…
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Olympic swimmer Krayzelburg visits Skokie
See Skokie Review It’s the same sun over California as it is over Skokie. And a tanned Lenny Krayzelburg, four-time Olympic U.S. gold medalist from Los Angeles, was in his element Jan. 12 bringing summer gold to the wintry North Shore. […] “I’m very excited about opening our Learn to Swim Academy here in Chicago,…
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Behold this bird’s eye view of Banzai Pipeline surfers
“Happy new year everyone! Thought I would put together some of my aerial footage of 2013. All shots were on the North Shore of Oahu, Pipeline. More winter swells to come!” Pipeline Winter 2013 from Eric Sterman on Vimeo.
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London Olympic Park Aquatics Centre to open
Read BBC The Aquatics Centre used in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics is to reopen for the first time since the games. […] Visitor ticket prices for the Aquatics Centre will start from £4.50 a session when it opens in March, according to the LLDC. The centre, which has two 50m pools, a diving pool and…