Category: Competition
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Florent Manaudou’s World Record at Doha 2014 | FINA World Championships
France’s Florent Manaudou smashed the 50m Freestyle Final at the 2014 edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships in Doha claiming a Gold Medal and a new World Record with a time of 20.26. Relive this epic final with the best sprinters in the world racing head to head!
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High-end Goggles Review – Worth it? | The Social Kick
Arena, Form Swim and Magic5 have some of the most expensive goggles on the market. We got to test them in an Endless Pool and put together this short review on their comfort, usability, what’s great, and what’s still to be determined.
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Inside with Brett Hawke: Jason Lezak
Jason Lezak got kicked off the UCSB swim team in the middle of his Junior year. A decade later he split 46.0 on the back of Team USA’s 4×100 Free Relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to reel in France’s Alain Bernard.
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Wayzata Loses to Minnetonka in Girls Swimming
The Wayzata girls swimming and diving team lost a dual meet for the first time this season, falling 110-76 to last year’s state Class AA runner-up Minnetonka. The Skippers won eight of the twelve varsity events. Defending state butterfly champion Claire Reinke of Wayzata won the 100 Fly in 55.84 seconds with Jenna Marquette winning…
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Jenny Garrison, North Central Triathlon and Swimming Coach, Discusses Female Role Models
North Central Coach Jenny Garrison joins the show to discuss women in sports, specifically role models for the next generation
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Coronavirus: 2021 Island Games in Guernsey are postponed because of pandemic
The 2021 Island Games have been called off because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The multi-sport event for small islands across the world was due to be held in Guernsey between 3 and 9 July, with 3,500 competitors and officials, and 1,000 volunteers set to be involved. No decision has been made on when the games…
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U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte discusses why the Spire Institute & Academy is the perfect place to train athletes for success
The institute is new and improved, with five former Olympians working as ambassadors for the institute. See WKYC Channel 3
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Chinese elite swimmer goes from the pool to policing
Jiang Haiqi starred alongside the controversial Sun Yang in winning a historic relay swimming bronze medal for China at the London 2012 Olympics. But now he is doing national duty of a very different kind — as a policeman saving lives on Shanghai’s Huangpu River. Read Yahoo! Sports
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Netherlands claim New World Record at Rome 2009 | FINA World Championships
Today we take you back to the 2009 edition of the FINA World Championships in Rome for another epic moment! It has been a tough battle between Germany, Australia and Netherlands to become World Champion in the Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay. With a strong finish the Dutch Team came back from behind to claim the…