Category: Organization
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Record entries for FINA 2013 World Junior Champs in Dubai
Read gulfnews.com To be held at the Hamdan Bin Mohammad Sports Complex, Dubai has already attracted a record 85 countries for the six-day competition. The last championships held in Lima, Peru had a mere 58 nations. Commonly known as ‘Junior Worlds’ and first hosted in 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this championship has grown…
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Strel-swimming ready with a series of 7-day Croatian Island Hopping tours
Borut sends his greetings, Martin and him are back from their Lake Powell spring tours, returning there in October but before then arranging a series of tours in the beautiful Dalmatian coast area of Croatia. Go see strel-swimming.com, the summer trips are almost fully booked. They arrange video analysis also, y’know
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Irish Swimming goes high-tech with kinematic sensing system
Read Galway Independent, siliconrepublic and Swim Ireland Swim Ireland has teamed up with NUI Galway with a view to developing a new high performance analysis system for competitive swimming. The development work is well under way on the new system which utilises innovative kinematic sensing technology. The new technology which is in test mode is…
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Uruguay Special Olympic team member Pablo Jose Perez drowns in Cayman open water event
Read The Washington Post and Cayman Islands News Police have now named the two men who died in separate water-related incidents this weekend. Pablo Jose Perez Larza, a member of the Uruguay Special Olympic team, who was in the Cayman Islands to participate in the Butterfield 800 meter swim, was found dead in the ocean…
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11th Annual National Black Heritage Championship Swim Meet
“Nine hundred twenty-seven swimmers, 122 race events, three 50-meter pools and 72,000 square feet — it’s all part of the 11th Annual National Black Heritage Championship Swim Meet.” http://youtu.be/7DZbVuPCZa0
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Dozens rescued by coastguards after Southwold Pier-to-Pub Swim goes wrong
Read for instance the BBC, the Mirror, MailOnline, Sky and EDP24 A major search and rescue operation was launched yesterday after dozens of people taking part in the Southwold Pier-to-Pub Swim had to be pulled from the sea. About 200 people were taking part in the event, which involved swimming around the town’s pier before heading…
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Croatia Underwater Swimming Technique
This is a collection of video clips from 2012 swimming holiday season run by Strel Swimming Adventures, local tour operator. Video clips are used to do video analysis and improve swimming technique in open water.
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CC photo #511: The 2013 SSF General Meeting
Just a photo from the Faroese Swimming Association‘s annual general meeting, in Tórshavn today, Saturday 25th, 2013.
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ASA shock report reveals half of British primary pupils cannot swim
See This Is Derbyshire Drowning is the third most common cause of accidental deaths in children – yet many schools in the county are not booking swimming lessons for their pupils. It has led to criticism from the Amateur Swimming Association. In an interview with the Derby Telegraph, Jon Glenn, head of youth and community…