Category: Organization
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Stephanie Rice – Junior Excellence Clinic – Adelaide, April 2013
South Australian JX athletes hear from triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice on how to prepare to train, race and enjoy club swimming.
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New Aussie swim boss Michael Scott starts with Stilnox ban
Read for instance Brisbane Times and The Australian Swimming Australia’s new high performance director Michael Scott will make the banning of Stilnox by team members one of his first moves in drawing a “line in the sand” after the disappointing Olympic performance last year. Scott, who officially started his first day with the organisation Wednesday,…
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CC photo #487: A winter’s worth of pins
A good first season for our youngest, resulting in these three pins (plus a fourth that he somehow managed to talk himself into … we’re still discussing that part). We use a Faroese version (basically ‘translation’) of the excellent Norwegian swim school, you can buy their (in my opion very best) learn-to-swim book ‘Slik lærer…
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Pay homage to Alex today by being extra positive
The Norwegian Swimming Federation has this message to us all here on Facebook, that I’ve tried to translate as best as possible below. Strong people, the Norwegians. Today it is one year since we got the sad and incomprehensible message from Flagstaff that Alexander Dale Oen was dead. We hope that everyone will remember him…
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Catching up with Ian Crocker
Texas Ex and three-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Crocker (2001-04) discusses his life after competitive swimming which includes marriage, music, old cars and the extended Texas swimming family.
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Craig Lord and team move on to SwimVortex.com
On April 25, Craig Lord and team officially moved on to SwimVortex.com, in their own words because of the estate after SwimNews founder Nick Thierry being unsettled: At the time Nick passed away in October last year after suffering a stroke, he had been looking forward to seeing the latest plans for a new look…
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Cullen Jones Donates Defibrillators To Local Foundation
Read CBS Baltimore Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones teams up with a local foundation to donate life-saving equipment to the city’s aquatic program. Jones met an eager group of swimmers Saturday at Callowhill Aquatic Center. He joined the Connor Cares Foundation to present the center with three defibrillators. “The city of Baltimore is delighted to…
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