Author: rokur
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Fijian Douglas Miller – Passion for the Pool – Insight from 2013 World Swimming Championships
“This film was produced by Alice McAlpine and crew of The Reporters’ Academy UK, a media production company run by young people, tasked with the mission of telling the stories of Oceania’s swimmers at the World Championships in Barcelona. The Reporters’ Academy is integrated into the world of media, education and employment, based in the…
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Speedo Advisors | How to tone your entire body using swim fitness by Karen Pickering
“How to tone your entire body using swim fitness by Karen Pickering”
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Catherine Vogt on Training Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli
“Catherine Vogt, the head open water coach for the United States at the 2013 world championships, talks about training world champions Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli.”
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David Walliams dives in to SwimBritain at Blenheim Palace
“David Walliams waded in for his latest swim challenge joining hundreds of eager swimmers from around the country to take on British Gas SwimBritain at Blenheim Palace’s Great Lake. The comic actor joined forces with a host of Olympic and Paralympic swim stars including Keri-anne Payne, Duncan Goodhew, Cassie Patten and Graham Edmunds to encourage…
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12-year-old Hong Kong swim champ regains consciousness after near drowning
Read South China Morning Post A young swimming champion has regained consciousness after nearly drowning at an annual North District swimming competition on Sunday where he had just set a new record. But he is still partly paralysed, school authorities say. […] After setting a new record in the competition’s 200-metre breaststroke, winning the 4×50-metre…
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Tudor Morris to swim the English Channel this September, behold his beautiful video
See Virgin Money Giving My name is Tudor Morris and when I was 13 years old I was diagnosed with stage 3 non-hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the immune system and lymphatic glands where white blood cells are produced. By the time I started treatment the cancer had spread and I had…
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CC photo #625: Coaching again
So after a few years away from coaching I’m back on deck, our team 20 talented kids fresh from the swim school. Crawl looked good, backstroke also, will work on breast and butterfly :-)
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2013 USA-Europe Duel in the Pool to be in Glasgow in December
See SwimmingWorld This year’s USA vs. European All Stars Duel in the Pool will take place in Glasgow, Scotland from Dec. 20-21, and the teams are going to be made up of some seriously fast swimmers […] This is the sixth Duel in the Pool in the history of USA Swimming. So far, USA Swimming…