Category: Organization
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Henley Swim Festival
Henley Swim Festival (incorporating the Henley Mile) is taking place on Sunday 14th July 2019. Come and join us for a fun filled day by (and in) the Thames https://goo.gl/8TFxF6
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Training To Become A Swimming Teacher | Swim England Qualifications
Find out how you can train to become a swimming teacher with Swim England Qualifications. Hear from English swimming teachers why they wanted to take up the profession, and why the chose to qualify with Swim England Qualifications. Find out more at https://swimenglandqualifications.com/
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Is swimming the next big professional sport? ISL News
There’s a new player in the game. FINA has long been the governing body controlling swimming, but has not done enough for professional swimmers.
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Teaching perseverance, perspective and paying it forward through swimming
Before Caroline County opened their very own YMCA about three years ago, swimming was a recreation reserved for neighborhood and backyard pools in the summer. Now, with an indoor facility, it’s become a year-round sport for a growing number of Caroline High School teens who have formed the school’s first-ever swim team. “I think swimming…
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SwimAmerica Swim Lessons
SwimAmerica is a learn to swim program for all ages. We are based in Edmonton, and are looking to expand.
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FINA meets with National Federations on Athlete participation in international competitions
FINA’s approach to and interpretation of its rules regarding swimmers and their participation in international competitions was discussed today, at a meeting of FINA’s leadership and a representative selection of national federations, present either in person in Lausanne (SUI) or by videoconference. “FINA’s principal concern remains the development of all the aquatics disciplines and the support…
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Probe of IOC’s Takeda hangs over Tokyo Olympics
A month ago, Tsunekazu Takeda was warmly applauded by 1,400 Olympic dignitaries as he spoke alongside International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in Tokyo. A month later, the powerful IOC member and head of the Japanese Olympic Committee is fighting a corruption investigation, suspected by French investigators of authorizing the payment of bribes to help…
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Pro swimmers face opportunities, obstacles in quest for more prize money
For eight days every four years, the sport of swimming takes center stage at the Olympics and its top athletes often become household names, if only for a few nights. A well-heeled Ukrainian businessman who is convinced swimming can do better has ambitious plans to launch a professional league that he says will better showcase…
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ATRadio: A Lion of the Olympics Retires
Sam Ramsamy, one of Africa’s leading voices on the Olympics, talks with Around the Rings Editor Ed Hula about his career in sport. After 23 years as a member of the IOC in South Africa, Ramsamy retired as of Jan.1. Listen to ATRadio Photo by GovernmentZA