Category: Competition
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Lets Dive Straight In with Owen Kuyper
Diving Straight In with swimmer and coach extraordinaire Owen Kuyper. Very interesting chat with Owen during a recent visit to Stellenbosch… Lovely to meet the coach who coached Tukkies for many years against us. Great guy with an incredible contribution to South African Swimming History.
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Rowdy Gaines on opening more pools to help water safety – The Social Kick E#61
Hall of Fame swimmer and 3-time Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines joins the show! We talk about how COVID is affecting student-athletes who have trained their entire lives to play a sport only to now be sidelined and/or lose out on scholarships? We address the financial, professional and mental health repercussions, as well as the…
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Swim Coach Paves the Way
Terry Varney Freerks helped paved the way for hundreds of swimmers over the years. But she sees sport as a vehicle for education and other opportunities in life. She began swimming at the age of four and became a nationally-ranked swimmer by the age of ten. Her career continued into college where she had to…
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Natalie Coughlin breaks her own World Record! | FINA World Championships
Don’t miss out this amazing Women’s 100m Backstroke Final from the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne! Record holder and Olympic Champion Natalie Coughlin was very motivated to win a Gold Medal being the favourite at the starting blocks. With a terrific performance the American star beat all the contenders breaking her own World Record…
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The Fast and The Furious – Swimming Documentary
During the 1980s, Canadian swim titans Alex Baumann and Victor Davis ruled the pool. Baumann was a quiet, analytical IM and freestyle specialist who would win two gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, while Davis, a fiery and brash world-record-breaking breaststroker, had his life tragically cut short when he was hit by a…
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Paris 2024 scraps temporary aquatics venue in cost control measures
The Paris 2024 organising committee has made further revisions to its construction plans, announcing that it will no longer build two temporary venues as part of a suite of cost control measures to ensure the French city delivers the Olympic Games within its initial €3.8bn ($4.5bn/£3.5bn) budget. Paris had originally planned to build a permanent…
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Pump Room: Denison University Head Coach Gregg Parini on Great, Small College Swimming
Listen to Gregg Parini talk about how elite-level swimming is alive and well in NCAA Division 3!
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Most coaches don’t teach these 4 ways to swim | Skills NT Swimming
4 ways to swim freestyle and they can all be fast. You just need to practice the small details of each one. I hope this video helps you finding the best way to swim for you.