Category: Competition
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Katie Ledecky has more than Olympics on her mind
The most dominant distance swimmer of her generation serves meals to the homeless once a month. Maryland teenager Katie Ledecky also collects, assembles and repairs bicycles for developing countries instead of attending classes every other week during the school year. The Stanford-bound swim star volunteers with the Wounded Warrior Project at the Walter Reed Bethesda…
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LEN moves 2015 Short Course Europeans to December
With a majority decision, through mail vote, the LEN Bureau approved to move the next European Short Course Swimming Championships from January to December 2015. Earlier this year LEN allocated the next edition of the European Short Course Swimming Championships to the city of Netanya (ISR) – the dates of the event were set at…
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Amanda Beard talks Rio 2016, more in Springfield
Seven-time Olympic swimming medalist Amanda Beard was in Springfield on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, putting on a clinic at the west-side YMCA. She’s continuing her professional career, aiming at a spot in the 2016 Rio games, 20 years after her first Olympic medals in Atlanta.
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Eurosport – Berlin 2014 European Swimming Championships Trailer
See also Eurosport http://vimeo.com/102315353
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NZ swimming goes even further off the Boyle
Lauren Boyle’s Commonwealth Games success, on the back of last year’s memorable triple bronzes at the world championships, was one of the most uplifting sights in Glasgow but has underlined a recurring problem — what to do about New Zealand swimming? Boyle’s gold and silver at Glasgow have again highlighted how much she is towing…
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Chad Le Clos on his journey and swimming goals
Chad Le Clos talks to the Olympic YouTube channel about his career, his earliest memories of swimming and how he achieved his Olympic goals.
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Dan Wallace: cries of freedom were not a political statement
Just a few months ago Dan had ended up in a US jail overnight after urinating on a police car while celebrating his birthday. It could have spelled the end of his Commonwealth dreams but instead the brush with the law spurred him on to win. Dan said: “There were cries of ‘freedom’ when I…
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‘You never swim a perfect race’
With the conclusion of the swimming for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Cameron McEvoy and James Magnussen are already looking to improve their strokes for the Pan Pacific championships in mid-August. See brisbanetimes
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Results not matching funding for Swimming NZ
Nearly nine million dollars spent in four years and two medals to show for it. That’s the meagre return on investment for Swimming New Zealand following a lean Commonwealth Games display in Glasgow that would have been disastrous if not for Lauren Boyle. New Zealand’s four-medal haul in the pool was only given weight by…