Category: Competition
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Teaser Trailer “Heroes Don’t Wear Capes” (Tyler McGill)
“This film is really about the people who strive to do the right thing when life calls them to act upon that thing that could be classified as heroic. You could also say that it’s about what people do to satisfy and nourish the desires of the human heart, the will welling up inside it…
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Building a Swimming Culture in SA with Chad le Clos
ABN’s Arabile Gumede caught up with South African Olympic gold medallist, swimmer Chad le Clos, to discuss the building of a swimming culture in South Africa.
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Rebecca Adlington Reflects After Announcing Her Retirement
“Sportsvibe had the opportunity to catch up with the greatest British swimmer in British Olympic history Rebecca Adlington, after she announced her retirement from competitive swimming. the 23-year-old double gold medallist reflects on her career and the passion that has dominated her life since she was four years old, and shares some of her plans…
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Star swimmer Sun Yang disciplined
One of China’s brightest young sports stars has been disciplined by officials within the national sports system. Two time Olympic Champion and world record-holder in the 1,500m freestyle, Sun Yang, has received punishment after reports of tensions with his coach Zhu Zhigen.
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CC photo #403: First swim meet for Bjarki
Our youngest at the club meet, yesterday 5 February 2013, before his swim. Don’t take my word for it, but I think it was only the goggles pressing his eyelids down that made him look so sad, since the race itself (and the walk to it) went fine.
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Therese Alshammar is pregnant
Read Speed Endurance, Swedish World Champion Therese Alshammar, 35, has announced that she and her coach and partner Johan Wallberg are expecting. She will therefore not be swimming the Barcelona World Championships this summer, but still refuses to draw a line over her swimming career. “One of my greatest dreams is to continue to try…
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CC photo #402: Club Meet here in Toftir, Faroe Islands
Our local club FLOT arranged its annual club meet today (5 February 2013). We had our two sons competing and one of the daughters coaching :-)
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Rebecca Adlington retires
Great Britain’s double Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington has retired, the 23-year-old, who won the 800m world title in 2011 and two Commonwealth Games gold medals in 2010, picked up two bronze medals at London 2012. “I love swimming but as a competitive element and elite athlete I won’t compete any more,” she said. Read…
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Mark Spitz going for gold in Munich 1972
A trip down memory lane, including the moustache story http://youtu.be/QCeIo-Y_Ljc