Category: Competition
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Competitive Swimmer Braves Spine Surgery | Cincinnati Children’s
Amy Fryer was one of her daughter’s swim coaches. She saw Ellie in a bathing suit every day. So it came as a shock when she learned her daughter had scoliosis. Amy Fryer, Ellie’s mom: “So my friend said, ‘I think she’s crooked,’ one day. And I said, ‘Oh, gosh, no, she’s 12, she’s turning…
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Phillips 66 National Championships #FiredUp
Get Fired up for the 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships July 25 -29 in Irvine, Cal. Get tickets now to watch the fastest swimmers in the nation attempt to qualify for the Pan Pacific Championships
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Ian Thorpe to become a champion for AIS Athlete Wellbeing
Australia’s most successful Olympian, Ian Thorpe OAM, has committed to an ongoing role with the AIS that will focus on improving athlete wellbeing nationally. The five-time Olympic gold medallist is the first member of the AIS Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement Advisory Committee, which will also include industry experts in areas such as mental health. Thorpe…
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Olympics – End gold medal targets, says Australian Thorpe
Swimmer Ian Thorpe, Australia’s most decorated Olympian, has called on national bodies to stop setting gold medal targets as it puts too much pressure on athletes. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) summit on “Athlete Wellbeing†on Tuesday, the fives-times Olympic gold-medallist and 11-times world champion said the focus should be on athletes…
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Katinka Hosszu – The Ultimate No.1 in Swimming | Best of FINA
Katinka Hosszu won her first World title at the FINA World Championships 2009 in Rome, in the 400m Individual Medley. Since then she collected more and more medals and nowadays she is the record holder in the number of medals at the FINA Swimming World Cup.
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Now you can buy the world’s first custom fitted swimming goggles
THEMAGIC5 are ready to launch the world’s first custom fitted goggles after one of the most successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in history. The goggles start at 70 USD. Take a moment to think of your current swimming goggles. How do they fit? Have you experienced leaking goggles? Are they uncomfortable? Since Thomas William Burgess…
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Swim Spa World Record Attempt – Longest Continual Swim in a Swim Spa
The record attempt by Dennis T. Seiler-Holm (DK) will commence at 20.00 pm on Friday 25 May and finish approximately 13.07 pm Saturday 26 May at Denform Lux, Viborgvej 291, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark. The World Record will be beaten 12.00 pm Saturday 26 May. The Record Attempt and DenForm Lux’s Expo will be open…
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How Racism Kept The World’s Fastest Swim Stroke Out Of The Pool
On April 20, 1844, two men from North America jumped into the Bath in High Holborn, a 130-foot pool in London. They were there to show how fast they could go. The British Swimming Society had invited the two men, Wenishkaweabee and Sahma, Ojibwe people from Canada, to compete against each other for a silver…
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I blocked my grandmother on Facebook: NCAA swimmer comes out transgender | Schuyler Bailar | TEDxJHU
Schuyler Bailar is the first openly transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team. By 15, he was one of the nation’s top 20 15-year-old breast strokers. By 17, he set a national age group record. Now he swims for Harvard University. Schuyler’s difficult choice – to transition while…