Month: June 2020
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Mexico’s India Inspired Artistic Swimming Routine at Rio 2016 | Music Monday
This Music Monday, we feature the performance by Mexican Artistic Swimming duet Karem Achach and Nuria Diosdado at the 2016 Summer Olympics Games to “Aaila Re Aaila”, an Indian song by Daler Mehndi and Kalpana Patowary. Enjoy watching!
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Australian Facilities Hosting Elite Swimmers to Benefit From New Federal Technology Funding
The Australian Government’s announcement of new funding for high-performance athletes is to include $725,000 for Swimming Australia to equip at least one pool in each state with the latest technology, including cameras and instrumented turning plates. Items to be installed include underwater cameras, new starting blocks, and cutting-edge analysis software designed to help Australia’s swimmers…
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5 Exercise Myths You Might Be Believing
Does cooldown really reduce muscle soreness after workout? Is body weight more important than resistance training? Are burpees the ultimate single exercise? Are planks better than crunches when trying to slim your waist? Exercise scientist Sandra Hunter, physiologist Fabio Comana, and researcher Harry Dorell give a scientific and logical answer to these questions. Spoiler alert:…
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Girl tries to save squirrel from swimming pool, plan backfires
“I called my daughter outside to see a squirrel trapped in my granddaughter’s kiddie pool; and of course, being the animal lover she is, she had to attempt a rescue. The squirrel was not quite as grateful as she had hoped! It leaps at her face as she recoils in horror and runs away screaming.…
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Swimmers Strength Workout | by Swim Ireland’s Paul Talty
Paul Talty, Swim Ireland’s associate head of performance services, is here to deliver another of the strength workouts he has prescribed to his elite swimmers, while they have been confined to dry land.
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Swim Swift Elite Episode 12 – Lizzie Simmonds
Double Olympian, Double European Champion, World and Commonwealth medalist, and now Blogger, Speaker, and Mentor Lizzie Simmonds speaks with Swim Swift Elite. We cover her career from being at a high level so young and how this impacted education, pressure and expectation, an agonising 4th place finish at the Olympics, transitions into the ‘real world’,…
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Local fire departments see increase in drownings, distress swimmer calls by the Potomac River
An increase in drownings in the Potomac River has led local fire departments to remind swimmers that it is not only dangerous but illegal to swim in certain areas. D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Vito Maggiolo said with pools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, more people are going to the river for a…
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Two Men Who Died While Swimming At Lake Pueblo Were Ft Carson Soldiers
The Pueblo County Coroner confirmed the identity of two men who died Friday at Lake Pueblo. The bodies of Zion Thomkins of Philadelphia and Michael Carter, hometown unspecified, were recovered by search crews about three hours after the first call to 9-1-1. Both men were 21 years of age. Read CBS Local https://youtu.be/hdQAO88cODk
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Swimsight – Research and Development
Visually impaired swimmers often need to hire ‘tappers’ in order to train safely. ‘Tappers’ are individuals who stand at the end of a lane and hit the visually impaired swimmer using an improvised rod, alerting them when to turn. Swimsight enables visually impaired swimmers to train independently. The system uses computer vision to track lane…