Year: 2014
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Sun Yang’s return sets up potential legendary race
Read NBC Olympic Talk Comparing early season times can be dangerous, but note that Lochte won the 200m free at the Mesa Grand Prix in 1:49.48 on April 25. Lochte finished fourth in the 200m free at the 2012 Olympics and 2013 World Championships and is currently the top rival to Sun as the world’s best…
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There’s more to chlorine than just swimming pools
Listen to Marketplace It keeps your pools clean and safe, it’s half of the compound that makes up table salt, and — in its purest form – it can kill you. And those are only three of the things chlorine can do. “There are something like 15,000 chlorine-based chemicals that are used in industry,” says the BBC’s Justin…
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Slow Mo Guys demonstrate Swim Cap Trick in Super Slow Motion
Via Laughing Squid YouTube team The Slow Mo Guys, comprised of Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy, have created asuper slow motion video of the “swim cap trick,†in which a swimming cap is applied to a head by being filled with water and dropped from a height. Captured by a Phantom Flex camera at 1,600 FPS, the trick takes a few hilarious…
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It takes a gutsy swimmer to wear this suit
Via Laughing Squid Black Milk Clothing, a funky clothing company based in Australia, has created “Dem Guts“, a swimsuit that illustrates the anatomy of the human torso.
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Rikke Møller Pedersen: The experience was taken away from me
Read SwimmingWorld While many in the Russian swimming community found relief that Yuliya Efimova’s doping ban will end in time for her to make a run at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, not everyone in Europe is totally happy about the situation. Rikke Moller Pedersen of Denmark, who now officially stands as the European Short…
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Swimming: the worst job in the sporting world
Read The Sydney Morning Herald It is actually pretty amazing there is not more former Olympic swimmers snorting coke and ice and Stilnox because if there is a sport tailor-made for producing sociopaths and depressives, it has got to be swimming. Imagine spending endless hours staring at the bottom of a pool, gulping chlorinated water,…
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Yuliya Efimova thrown 16-month ban and lifelife to Kazan 2015 World Champs home defence
Read SwimVortex Yuliya Efimova, of Russia, has been thrown a lifeline to a home World Championships and the defence of two world titles in Kazan next year by a 16-month suspension in the wake of a positive doping test for a steroid. The ruling, which coincides with the start of the Russian Championships in Moscow,…
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Magnus Wins 2014 War Of The Great Danes
Read SwimmingWorld Birkerød, Denmark. Tonight, Sigma Swim arranged a fun and spectator friendly “War Of The Great Danes,” in connection with their annual sponsor event. Six of the best Danish male swimmers competed in an elimination challenge, consisting of five rounds of 50 meter sprints, starting every 3 minutes. The swim stroke was decided by…
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IOC says ‘totally unfeasible’ for London to step in for Rio as 2016 Olympics host
Read The Guardian Much to the disappointment of those hoping for an action replay of the heady summer of 2012, the International Olympic Committee has rejected as “totally unfeasible” claims that London could step in for troubled Rio to host the 2016 Olympics. A report in the London Evening Standard has claimed that the capital had been secretly sounded…