Category: Competition
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New training device helps Olympic swimmers shoot for gold
Swimmer David McCagg won the 1978 World Championship in the 100-meter freestyle. He won two more golds at the 1979 Pan-Am Games. After his competitive career, he decided to step away from the pool. But when came back more than three decades later he knew he had to help change the sport. “I got back…
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Marco Koch | Breaststroke Advice, ISL and the Olympics | Propulsion Swimming
For the final Propulsion Swimming Podcast of 2020 we are talking with German Superstar Marco Koch!!! Marco is a former world champion and world record holder in the 200m Breaststroke! Marco talks through with us all the tips he would give Breaststrokers out there, from not perfecting one stroke but finding a nice variety that…
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Hinsdale High School Swimmer Dies In North Carolina Car Crash
A high school teenager from Hinsdale, with dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer, is dead. Kendall Pickering, 15, and her father Robert, 59, died in a car crash in North Carolina. They were visiting colleges when their car went off the road and hit a tree Tuesday night on Interstate 85 near Kannapolis, North Carolina.…
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Jamesville-DeWitt high school boys swimming adapts to Covid times
Jamesville-DeWitt high school boys swimming starts practices with Coronavirus precautions.
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Swimming: France’s Supiot trains for Paralympics, three decades after Olympics
She competed in the Seoul Olympics in 1988, and more than thirty years later, French swimmer Claire Supiot is training to take part in next year’s Paralympics. Despite discovering she had the neuropathy Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2008, 52-year-old Claire isn’t letting her disability get in the way of her dreams.
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Inside with Brett Hawke: Cody Simpson
Cody Simpson is an Australian musician, artist, and swimmer. Over the past 5 months, he has been training with Brett at a country club pool outside Los Angeles. Last weekend, Cody qualified for Australian Olympic Trials in the 100 LCM Butterfly posting a time of 54.91.
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Cody Simpson Says He Qualified for Olympic Swimming Trials — and Gets Shoutout from Michael Phelps
Cody Simpson is one step closer to the Olympics. On Saturday, the 23-year-old Australian singer — who is also an avid swimmer — revealed that he had qualified for his first Olympic trials. “I’d love to share this personal milestone and let you in on my current journey as an athlete that I’ve kept relatively low key until…