Category: Organization
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★STOCKPORT METRO SWIMMING★ From beginners to Olympians
Stockport Metro‘s vision is to provide swimmers with the optimum environment and the right opportunities at each stage of their development to enable them to achieve excellence. We will continue to strive for gold medal success through the provision of seamless pathways from early skill development to the Olympic podium.
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Warning over low number of British pupils who can swim
More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has warned. Half of seven- to 11-year-olds in England, some 1.1 million children, cannot swim the length of a standard pool, research suggests. Only 2% of schools surveyed delivered the government’s recommended 22 hours a year of swimming lessons. See also…
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Cullen Jones gets kids swimming in New York
Read Enstars With the Rio Olympics still years away, Olympic medalist Cullen Jones is taking time out to give back through the sport he loves. Jones made a stop in Harlem, NY, last week to promote USA Swimming Foundation’s Make A Splash initiative, as part of the group’s national tour. Make A Splash is the national swimming…
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SA coach Graham Hill accepts blame for lack of female swimmers
Read sport24 South Africa’s national swimming coach, Graham Hill, says he is partly to blame for the country not having world class female swimmers. This comes after top men’s performer, Cameron van der Burgh, claimed that the country’s female swimmers are not willing to sacrifice enough in order to reach the top. Van der Burgh said women…
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Davis Tarwater inspires kids to sign up for swim team
Read wbir.com Kids from around Knoxville got the chance to meet an Olympian and learn more about a summer swimming program. Sign ups for Emerald Youth’s swim team’s seventh season started Tuesday. Gold medal winning swimmer Davis Tarwater spoke to the kids about his own swimming experiences and helped register the kids for the team.…
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Ex-swim coach accused of abuse appears in court
Read Boston Globe When the young boy joined the Arlington Boys & Girls Club swim team in the late 1970s, his coach was Paul Collins, who also dated his family’s neighbor and would sometimes fill in as baby sitter. On those occasions, when the boy went to sleep, Collins would sit at his bedside and…
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Learn Anything in 20 Hours
A fun and thought-provoking TEDx Talk by Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!, via Lifehacker
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Danish anti-doping agency receives major grant
Read Jyllands-Posten The Culture Ministry is giving Anti Doping Denmark a nearly one million kroner grant to help it combat the growing use of steroids and growth hormones in the nation’s gyms and fitness centres. Steroid use is rampant in some centres, with Danes as young as 14 reportedly shooting themselves up in pursuit of…
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You Can Swim – Dr. Murray taking a swimming lesson at Stirling
Scottish Commonwealth Games hopeful Kerry Buchan teaches Dr. Andrew Murray, who is trying out every Commonwealth Games sport, the basics of swimming at the National Swimming Academy in Stirling. You Can Swim runs from 20 May – 30 June in a pool near you in Scotland. For more info look at www.scottishswimming.com/youcanswim