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With the German Short Course Championships and Doha 2014 World Short Course Championships Trials starting in Wuppertal tomorrow, reigning 400 freestyle world champion Paul Biedermann has announced that he will probably not go to Doha, even if he qualifies. “He has trained 200 kilometers less than he would have liked”, says national coach Henning Lambertz, while Biedermann’s own coach Frank Embacher says that it would take a “firecracker time” now in Wuppertal for Biedermann to contemplate Doha. Read swimsportnews.de

Le Clos was admitted to hospital in Durban on Monday to have four wisdom teeth removed, just two weeks before the biennial spectacle. While he was not undergoing a major operation, his management team remained cautious about his recovery. “We haven’t even booked yet for Doha because we’re not sure what to expect,” said his father, Bert le Clos. “Surgery is surgery, so we don’t want to confirm until we’re sure, but we should know by tomorrow whether he’ll recover in time.” Le Clos said previously he would target three gold medals in Doha, in the 50m, 100m and 200m…

Great Britain’s Tom Daley won bronze at the London 2012 summer games in the 10-metre men’s platform diving individual event. Since then his life has undergone massive changes both in and out of the pool. He explains the benefit of sports psychology as well as the sacrifices that come with training and being a famous athlete. http://youtu.be/pviohmVPYK8

Many freestylers swim with their heads too high. In a crowded swimming pool, swimmers often look forward, hoping to avoid a collision with one of their teammates. These defensive swimming techniques create a bad habit that slows them down. In this Swimisodes, world record holder and Olympic champ Roland Schoeman and Open Water Swimmer Lexie Kelly show how head elevation slows their swimming techniques while Japanese champion, Junya Koga, swims freestyle the way we teach at The Race Club almost effortlessly with his head in the correct swimming technique. See The Race Club http://youtu.be/MC3vTXrW8Q8

Lotte Friis has together with the Danish Swimming Federation and her American coaches decided to cancel her participation at the Doha 2014 World Short Course Championships next month, because of not so successful start of this season, a minor shoulder injury and sickness. She will be participating at the Danish Short Course Championships this weekend, and then return to Baltimore to prepare for the Kazan 2015 World Championships. Read the press release (in Danish) here on svoem.dk

Watch fun behind the scenes footage of Olympic 200m Butterfly Champion, Chad le Clos, as he promotes his ‘unbelievable’ new surf collection designed by arena. This beautiful photoshoot took place at Atlantis The Palm, Dubai! http://youtu.be/LPP6tsIIzo8

An Ironman is designed to push the human body to it’s breaking point. Triathlete, Heather Jackson gives some insight as to what it takes to be an Ironman. http://youtu.be/F-zwJGSO7e4

Two Roane State Community College educators are more than halfway through their bid to break the world record for consecutive days spent living underwater. Bruce Cantrell, associate professor of biology, and Jessica Fain, adjunct instructor, are living in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, a small underwater lodge located in the Florida Keys. “You never know what’s going to swim by,” Cantrell told WBIR in a Friday afternoon Skype interview. “The first week we had a manatee swim by.” The current world record of 69 days was set in 1992. Cantrell and Fain plan on living underwater for a total of 72 days.…

In anticipation of the film’s opening at the Starz Denver Film Festival tomorrow, Touch The Wall has released this clip of the movie where D.A. and Dick Franklin talk about Missy Franklin learning to swim during her early development as a swimmer. The footage includes a lot of home movie clips, showing that Missy was Missy even when she was extremely young. See SwimmingWorld http://youtu.be/iRXTm–tilM

In the first meet of her senior year, Katie Ledecky wore a cap belonging to a swimmer from another school who was seriously injured in a car crash. Ledecky, the Olympic 800m freestyle champion and multiple world record holder, swam for Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart while wearing a Gonzaga College High School swim cap in a meet involving both schools. Ledecky’s cap had the name “Johannessen” on it. It belongs to Patrick “PJ” Johannessen, a Gonzaga senior swimmer who was seriously injured in a two-car crash that killed one student on Nov. 1. Read NBC OlympicTalk