Month: September 2016
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Calvyn Justus flying to Rome to film a swim shoot
Part 1 of 4 Vlogs documenting my time with the Arena Elite swim team in Rome! https://youtu.be/_0osVZrwrGE
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Ex-Olympic champ Manaudou swaps swimming pool for handball
Former Olympic champion swimmer Florent Manaudou told AFP on Tuesday that he is taking a break from the pool to concentrate on playing handball. The 50m freestyle gold medallist from London 2012 said in a statement he didn’t want to take “hasty or radical decisions” but wanted to avoid continuing his swimming career “without pleasure”.…
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MySwimPro Launches World’s First Swimming App for Apple Watch
Yesterday, MySwimPro announced their first wearable integration with a native swimming app for Apple Watch. The Watch App coaches you through swim workouts set by set. It works by syncing a swim workout from the iPhone App to the Apple Watch. The iPhone app features hundreds of swim workouts organized by skill level, stroke category…
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Highlights – FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 #2 Berlin
Watch some of the best moments from the second event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Berlin (Germany) including the highlights of Jeanette Ottesen, Katinka Hosszu, Chad le Clos and more.
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Cadaqu̩s РMARNATON SwimRun Cap de Creus
Saturday 29th of October will be the inaugural date of the 1st MARNATON SwimRun Cap de Creus. A challenge that combines the two disciplines of running and swimming consecutively over a marked course comprising 18km running and 5km swimming. The adventure will start in the Port of Roses, either in pairs or individually, participants will…
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Object of Intrigue: London’s Life-Saving, Publicly Accessible Enema Kits
If you were unfortunate enough to drown in London during the mid- to late 18th century, further indignities likely awaited you. A member of the public may have attempted to revive you by furiously pumping tobacco smoke into your rectum. The tobacco smoke enema was one of the resuscitation techniques recommended by London’s Society for the Recovery…
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Hackers leak fifth batch of stolen WADA data
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that, again today, the cyber hacker Group “Fancy Bear†released a batch of confidential athlete data on their website, which they illegally obtained from a Rio 2016 Olympic Games account of WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS). This time, the group released data concerning 41 athletes from 13…
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Highlights – FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 #1 Paris
Watch some of the best moments from the first event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Paris-Chartes (France).