Month: May 2020
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USA Swimming Releases Guidelines On Reopening Facilities
We believe swimming, like walking, hiking, running, and cycling, is a critical healthy activity within our communities. Swimming does not require direct contact between teammates or coaches and social distancing can be maintained throughout practice. As with all exercise and activity at this time, swimming must comply with standards for social distancing and safety within…
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FFT Insider: Olympic Legend Jenny Thompson
Get inside the mind of one of the greatest female athletes of all time. In this episode of #FFTLIVE we interviewed TWELVE-TIME OLYMPIC MEDALIST and Legend Jenny Thompson. She was joined on the webinar by 5-time Olympian as both a swimmer and coach Brett Hawke along with Fresno State head coach Jeanne Fleck and McKendree…
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Local swimmer on missing Olympic trials and training at home
Milton Marlin alumnus Madison Macor was hoping to compete in the Olympic trials for the first time this year. Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to that goal. Macor is finding ways to keep training while waiting for the pools to open.
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Grim Reaper appears on local news to protest beach openings
Lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder went viral last weekend after lurking around Florida beaches dressed as death himself in protest of beachgoers enjoying the sun without proper social distancing, putting their communities at risk of COVID-19. While many states around the country are extending their stay-at-home mandates, others, like Georgia, are easing into reopening nonessential businesses. Uhlfelder is not a fan…
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Crespi’s $10-million aquatics center to be completed in August
The parking lot was deserted. Classrooms were empty. There was an eerie silence on the last day of April while walking around Encino Crespi. Usually it’s a regular school day bustling with activity. But the coronavirus pandemic has left students and faculty communicating via on line. The main activity was taking place at the $10…
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Budapest’s European Aquatics Championships Pushed Back to 2021
The European Aquatics Championships, originally scheduled to be held in Budapest from May 11 to 24, 2020, will be postponed to 2021 in view of the novel coronavirus epidemic, the organisers said. The exact dates will be decided at the European swimming league LEN’s November congress, Sándor Wladár, the head of the Hungarian swimmers’ association, told…
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LEN cancels European Junior Championships in all disciplines, Europeans TBD
The LEN Bureau held a videoconference and decided to cancel the European Junior Championships in all disciplines for 2020. This summer would have seen the best young swimmers racing in Aberdeen, the divers in Edinburgh, the artistic swimmers in Malta, the open water swimmers in France while Rome and Volos would have hosted the respective…
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Hand Speed vs Efficiency: Why some swimmers swim faster with less average force
Why some swimmers are able to swim significantly faster with smaller average force? I tried to answer this question by looking at the acceleration of the hand stroke. We know that when the velocity of the hand increases in backward direction, it produces high force forward and increasing speed of the swimmer. If the velocity…