Category: Competition
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Schwarzenegger’s Son Joseph: Beastly Swimmer
Joseph Baena is starting to look more and more like this dad Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s now a swimmer in school, with his huge arm span he’s made varsity! http://youtu.be/vUVtdRMwIjI
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Michael Jamieson ‘boosted’ by health scare
Read Sky Sports Michael Jamieson believes his heart scare could provide an unlikely boost to his chances of success at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The Scotsman had to have his heart restarted last November after pushing himself too hard during training, with his heart beating irregularly and too quickly as a result of…
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Katie Ledecky announced as 84th AAU Sullivan Award nominee
Read NBC OlympicTalk The Sullivan Award honors the nation’s outstanding amateur athlete for 2013, so Boudia and Ledecky’s Olympic successes shouldn’t factor in. They did, however, perform well at the 2013 World Championships. Boudia won silver in the platform, and Ledecky won four gold medals and was named the female swimmer of the meet in Barcelona.…
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Nick Juba on Great Danes progress: Mom Meet got us beyond first base
Read the interview with Danish national coach Nick Juba here on svoem.dk, where he evaluates the performance of the Great Danes team at the 3e Meeting Open Méditerranéen in Marseille, France. How would you say the overall performance of the group has been at Mom Meet? Much better than in Antwerp (Flanders Cup, red.)! This Great…
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Ukranian swimmer Andriy Govorov calls for peace from the podium in Milan
Read SwimmingWorld Magazine After winning the men’s 50-meter fly in 23.76 as part of the ADN Swim Project team, the Ukrainian who was born in Crimea took a Ukrainian flag to the podium with PEACE in bold letters printed on it, as seen in the ADN Swim Project tweet below. 4º Trofeo Internazionale Città di…
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LEN awards 2015 Short Course European Championships to Netanya, Israel
See Press Release from LEN The LEN Bureau chose Netanya (ISR) to host the European Short Course Swimming Championships to be held on 15-18 January 2015. Israel will stage such a large-scale swimming event for the very first time. Representatives of the Israeli Swimming Federation and the city of Netanya presented a rather impressive bid…
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Great Danes to attend the Mon Meet in Marseilles this weekend
Read svoem.dk (intro is in Danish, but the interview with national coach Juba is in English) A quick Google translation of the Danish intro (and outro) Friday 7th till Sunday 9th March 2014, the Great Danes will attend the Mon Meet in Marseilles, France, which according to national coach Nick Juba is characterized by a…
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Melbourne
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014. Monday Memory Tuesday Tips
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Ryan Lochte says he swam too soon after injury
Read The Daytona Beach News-Journal “I got back in the water faster that what was expected,†said Lochte, who swam in two events at Orlando. “The doctors still say that I should be more careful, and I said, ‘Ahh, I don’t want to listen to them, I want to get back in the water.’ It…