Category: Competition
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Swim Ireland IOSC 2019
Sport TG4 attended the NAC in Dublin for some of the Irish Open Swimming Championships to find out more about the competition & the competitors.
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Aimee Willmott – Glasgow, Gwangju and beyond…
With the British Swimming Championships 2019 firmly on the horizon, we caught up with Commonwealth champion Aimee Willmott to find out about the all-important prep for Glasgow, the Gwangju World Championships and beyond.
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Jacuzzi® Performance: Olympian and World Champion Freestyle Swimmer Janet Evans
I started swimming when I was about 18 months old, because my mom can’t swim. So, my parents put us in swimming. I joined a local swim team, and I was good, I wasn’t great, but I liked to win, I was very competitive, and I made it my goal to go to the Olympics.…
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Hong Kong and HKSPA mourn death of swimmer Kenneth To
Kenneth King Him To (7 July 1992 – 18 March 2019) was a Hong Kong Australian swimmer who practiced individual medley, freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke. He won 6 medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, was the male overall winner of the 2012 FINA Swimming World Cup and was a World Championships silver medalist. He…
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How To Do A Crossover Turn | Whiteboard Wednesday
Our guide to mastering the crossover flip turn! The cross over flip turn is a form of a swimming flip turn that is primarily used in the Individual Medley (I.M.) when transitioning from backstroke to breaststroke.
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Emily Overholt’s smile has returned after swimming through struggle
Emily Overholt was recently presented the Harry Jerome Comeback Award. Watch as she shares her story on making a comeback after losing her love for the sport.
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Swimmer, Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky, Makes a Dream Come True
Julia, from Harrisburg, NC, has a smile that will light up a room and a backstroke that will intimidate her best competitors. As a swimmer for most of her life, the water is definitely her “happy placeâ€. Suddenly Julia suffered a rare stroke that caused severe trauma to her brain. This life-altering trauma impaired her…