Month: February 2014
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Morocco-Spain Border Incident Leaves 15 Dead As Police Fire Rubber Bullets At Swimmers
Read for instance Reuters Spain said on Thursday border police had fired rubber bullets in an attempt to turn back around 200 migrants who tried to cross the frontier between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave Ceuta on February 6. Several migrants from the group drowned in the Mediterranean trying to swim around a man-made breakwater…
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Xenon: the EPO boosting Next Big Thing in ‘legal’ doping?
Read The Economist via road.cc According to an article in The Economist, Russia has been using xenon as a performance-enhancer for a few years now. A 2010 document produced by the State Research Institute of the Ministry of Defence advises on how to use the gas. Before competition it can help with listlessness and sleep…
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Avoiding swimmer’s ear this summer
Guest post by allearplugs.com Summer holidays are the ideal opportunity to enjoy some time on the beach, lapping up the ocean waves and sea breeze. However, an idyllic summer break can be spoilt if you are unfortunate enough to be taken ill, with one of the most common afflictions being swimmer’s ear. What is swimmer’s…
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Ad Says Don’t Wait Too Long
I say “you go, big boy !!” :-) BCBS Swimming 30 from Colin Quinn on Vimeo.
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Swim race provides release for 81-year-old athlete
Read azcentral.com Two years of training led Ruby Sherlund to this moment. The 81-year-old gripped the side of the pool with manicured fingers on Sunday as she waited for the race to start. Her wheelchair sat empty on the pool deck at Mesquite Grove Aquatic Center in Chandler. At the sound of the buzzer, she…
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How to do the Double Entry Swimming Drill
Collegiate and Masters Swim Coach Doug Alban, MEd, CSCS explains and Swimmer Kyle Williams demonstrates the double entry swimming drill for freestyle swimmers and triathletes.
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US Olympian Alex Meyer on Vasa swim-specific dryland training
Learn how to strengthen and improve freestyle swimming for triathlon and open water from US Olympian Alex Meyer. He integrates time-efficient power based dryland swim-specific training on Vasa Trainers and Vasa Swim Ergometers. He relies on using the popular swim benches to connect better, more powerfully with the water, to sustain proper high elbow catch…
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Behold thousands of semi-naked men dipping and wrestling to get lucky sticks
Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath Thousands of semi-naked men clad only in brief loincloths took part in the biggest ‘naked festival’ in Japan, the Hadaka Matsuri, in the city of Okayama on Saturday night. http://youtu.be/X8Ec4qrW34s
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Rebecca Adlington: Why are we closing swimming pools?
Read BBC As British swimmers leapt from the London 2012 starting blocks, they should have been doing so in full confidence. But their performance was one of the few lowlights of 2012, with the team securing three medals instead of UK Sport’s target of at least five. “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves,”…