Category: History
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Annamay Pierse hangs up her goggles
Well it is official! After 22 yrs of swimming I am hanging up the goggles & moving on Thank you to everyone who made it amazing! #lovealways — Annamay Pierse (@AnnersPierse) September 19, 2012
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Michael Phelps – Flying Fish
A little comp about the greatest athlete of all time. Michael Phelps finished his career as an Olympic swimmer with an impressive 22 medals (18 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
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Wow, Nathan Adrian has a street named after him
According to KMPS, Washington native and Olympic swimmer Nathan Adrian received a great honor yesterday. Nathan had a street named after him in his home town of Bremerton. â€Nathan Adrian Drive†is located near the Jarstad Aquatic Center, where Adrian trained as a teen.
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Wayne Soutter makes history with North Channel swim
43-year-old South African Wayne Soutter has become the first person ever to swim from the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland to the north Antrim coast in Northern Ireland. Others have conquered the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, but none of them have crossed by the shortest and most treacherous route, from Kintyre. And…
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Katie Ledecky Exclusive – A Hero Returns with Improbable Gold
Via Swimming World on Facebook At the age of 14, swimmer Katie Ledecky sat down with her coach and set a goal: to get to the 2012 London Olympics. After months of training, waking up at 3:45 a.m. for practice and balancing a full course load at a brand new school, Katie blazed through the…
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Michigan coach Gus Stager and Chet Jastremski in 1961
Michigan coach Gus Stager and Chet “the jet” Jastremski show Bud Palmer and CBS’s Sunday Sports Spectacular how to swim the breast stroke at the 1961 AAU national swimming championships from Yale University.
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Ian Thorpe’s drinking demons revealed in new autobiography
Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe was battling alcohol problems and depression as he struggled to cling on to his career after the Athens Olympics, his new tell-all autobiography has revealed. The book was written in conjunction with author Robert Wainwright and will be released through publishers Simon and Schuster on October 1. Read for instance Perth…
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Coach Denis Cotterell on how Grant Hackett came to happen
Interesting details in this Brisbane Times article titled “Are elite athletes born or made?“, on how coach Denis Cotterell thinks as others that champion athletes like Hackett have benefited from a series of unusual circumstances – including themselves. Hackett had already clocked 10,000 hours in the pool when he was 16 or 17, Cotterell says.…
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Camera found at bottom of plunge pool, last video shows how it got there
This video shows why an extra floater strap is a good idea. Uploaded by YouTube user BackyardJim, it’s the last video on the memory card of a camera found at the bottom of a plunge pool near Woodstock, NY. He is looking for the owner, see PetaPixel