Category: Organization
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Australian swimming’s rehabilitation will be a long haul
Read Herald Sun With the sport humiliated and chastened in the wake of London, rehabilitation is a long, incremental and necessary haul that will need every kilometre of the road to Rio. Often considered curious, swimming’s prominence was grounded in its capacity to showcase the vibrant best of Australian youth. Central to its hold was…
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CC photo #488: Haljand-test in Tórshavn 2010
Holger filming a Faroese swimmer’s finish during a Rein Haljand video analysis session in Tórshavn, back in 2010. I understand that they will be back here this weekend, filming 11 of our up-and-coming swimmers.
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Charlotte friends and strangers donate thousands to local Boston Marathon victims
Read wbtv.com The Charlotte swimming community joined together Wednesday to help raise money for three people injured in the Boston Marathon bombings. Nicole Gross is a tri athlete coach at the Mecklenburg Aquatics Center in Uptown. She, along with her husband Michael Gross and her sister Erika Brannock were injured when two pressure cooker bombs…
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Swimming pool safety presentation
Details and background on the South Australia State Government’s proposals to improve laws concerning swimming pool safety. The public is invited to review the discussion paper and make comments on the proposals anytime before 31 May 2013. See also story and video here on ABC News
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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…