Category: Competition
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Missy Franklin Learning to Swim – Touch The Wall
In anticipation of the film’s opening at the Starz Denver Film Festival tomorrow, Touch The Wall has released this clip of the movie where D.A. and Dick Franklin talk about Missy Franklin learning to swim during her early development as a swimmer. The footage includes a lot of home movie clips, showing that Missy was…
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James Magnussen aiming to break 100m freestyle world record
Magnussen finished the 2014 long course season with a crippling back complaint that often meant he struggled to get out of bed in the mornings and has since quit training with his coach Brant Best as he reshapes his program for a two-year push to the 2016 Rio Olympics. The 23-year-old dual world champion is…
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Chad Le Clos aims for three golds at world short course championships
Chad le Clos, fresh from winning the World Cup series again, will head into the world short course championships next month with his eye on three world records. He came tantalisingly close in the past few weeks in all three butterfly races, missing out by split seconds. Le Clos goes into the competition in Doha,…
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Egypt pull out of world champs in Qatar protest
Egypt on Tuesday announced it was boycotting December’s world short-course swimming championships in protest against hosts Qatar, the Egyptian swimming federation president told AFP. “The decision was taken due to the political position of Qatar vis-s-vis Egypt since the revolution of June 30, 2013,” federation head Yasser Idriss explained. Mass demonstrations led to the ousting…
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Impressions from the 2014 North Sea Swim Meet in Stavanger, Norway
A selection of really nice photos from the 2014 North Sea Swim Meet, courtesy of Bjørn Wigdel / North Sea Swim Meet. More can be found here on images.northseaswimmeet.com.
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World record holder Adam Peaty ‘kind of bullied’ into concentrating on breaststroke
“When I joined City of Derby, I had no idea just what to expect. I hadn’t really got a preference over which stroke I liked best. “I kind of got bullied into concentrating on my breaststroke by (coach) Mel Marshall!†Marshall, who won the Matrix Fitness Performance Coach of the Year award at the Derbyshire…
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Vikings Test Form at North Sea Swim Meet 2014
The Stavanger Swim Hall in Norway will this weekend 7-9 November 2014 be venue of the 42nd North Sea Swim Meet, featuring the Danish ‘Viking’ team including Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN), Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (FIN), Pál Joensen (FAR), Marco Loughran (GBR), swimmers from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and of course the best Norwegian…
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Swimming top guns gear up for Doha
The highlight of the aquatic season, the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), is about to start in the magnificent Hamad Aquatic Complex. Featuring a handful of the greatest stars and offering a massive sum in prize money, the showcase in Doha is going to be another hit, watched by hundreds of millions around the world.…
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‘Life is water’ – Kazan 2015 FINA World Championships Promo Video
The 16th FINA World Championships will be held in Kazan, Russia, from July 24 – August 9, 2015. Kazan has now developed the most advanced sporting infrastructure in all of Russia and has one of the most advanced Aquatic facilities in the world. http://youtu.be/vB3K99psTlk