Category: Organization
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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
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These children have to travel by plane to get to their swimming lessons
Three children have to take a flight from a remote Scottish island so they can learn to swim. Freyja Parnaby, six, Grace Parnaby, nine, and Lewis Wright-Stanners, nine, regularly travel from the Fair Isle to Shetland for their lessons. Each time they face the potential that their flight home may be cancelled due to adverse weather,…
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Berkeley Alum Nathan Adrian video | 2018 Winter Commencement
In his keynote address at UC Berkeley’s 2018 Winter Commencement, gold-medal Olympian swimmer, Nathan Adrian, a 2012 graduate of UC Berkeley, advised the new graduates to graduates set high goals, find mentors, and invest in themselves.