Category: Competition
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César Cielo Filho’s World Record at Rome 2009 | FINA World Championships
Watch the 100M Free from the 2009 edition of the FINA World Championships in Rome, where César Cielo Filho from Brazil crowned himself with the World Record for his time of 46.91, the first official time under 47 seconds.
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FFT Insider: Olympic Legend Jenny Thompson
Get inside the mind of one of the greatest female athletes of all time. In this episode of #FFTLIVE we interviewed TWELVE-TIME OLYMPIC MEDALIST and Legend Jenny Thompson. She was joined on the webinar by 5-time Olympian as both a swimmer and coach Brett Hawke along with Fresno State head coach Jeanne Fleck and McKendree…
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Local swimmer on missing Olympic trials and training at home
Milton Marlin alumnus Madison Macor was hoping to compete in the Olympic trials for the first time this year. Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to that goal. Macor is finding ways to keep training while waiting for the pools to open.
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Budapest’s European Aquatics Championships Pushed Back to 2021
The European Aquatics Championships, originally scheduled to be held in Budapest from May 11 to 24, 2020, will be postponed to 2021 in view of the novel coronavirus epidemic, the organisers said. The exact dates will be decided at the European swimming league LEN’s November congress, Sándor Wladár, the head of the Hungarian swimmers’ association, told…
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LEN cancels European Junior Championships in all disciplines, Europeans TBD
The LEN Bureau held a videoconference and decided to cancel the European Junior Championships in all disciplines for 2020. This summer would have seen the best young swimmers racing in Aberdeen, the divers in Edinburgh, the artistic swimmers in Malta, the open water swimmers in France while Rome and Volos would have hosted the respective…
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Hand Speed vs Efficiency: Why some swimmers swim faster with less average force
Why some swimmers are able to swim significantly faster with smaller average force? I tried to answer this question by looking at the acceleration of the hand stroke. We know that when the velocity of the hand increases in backward direction, it produces high force forward and increasing speed of the swimmer. If the velocity…
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Sports that Rave: Interview with Ryan Murphy — World Record Holder, Olympic gold medalist
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Murphy chatted with Powerjournalist Markos Papadatos about his latest endeavors, the postponement of the Olympic Games, and #RecesswithRyan as part of his partnership with the Goldfish Swim School. “There was a ton of mental stress over the past three weeks,†Murphy said, about the postponement of the Olympic Games. “I…
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FFT Live: Swim Business – International Swim League & International Swimmers Alliance
The International Swimming League (ISL) and the International Swimmers Alliance were both established in 2019. The ISL features ten teams consisting of roster spots occupied by the fastest swimmers in the world. The competitions are spectacular in person – with each one reportedly costing in excess of one million dollars to produce!