Category: Organization
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Welcome to SwimBritain
“British Gas has supported British Swimming since 2009. From paddling pool, to podium. This year we’re launching an initiative to get more people swimming, more often. Team up, take on SwimBritain. Sign up for more information at www.swimbritain.co.uk.”
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O.C. swim coach Ad’m Dusenbury banned for life; other coach resigns
Read the Orange County Register Former Mission Viejo Nadadores coach Daniel Ad’m Dusenbury has been banned for life by swimming’s national governing body after acknowledging having an inappropriate relationship with a female teenage Nadadores swimmer, the Orange County Register has learned. Another prominent Orange County swim coach, Bill Jewell, has resigned his coaching position at…
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Boy dies after swim in Disney pool
Read MyFOX8 and see 5KSDK Two days after he was pulled from the bottom of a swimming pool at a Disney resort in Florida, a 13-year-old boy from Missouri has died. Anthony Johnson had been playing in a pool at Disney’s Pop Century Resort on Sunday. No lifeguards were on duty at the time; signs…
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James Magnussen helped by mind guru at NRL’s Bulldogs
Read The Telegraph As the 100m freestyle world champion prepares to return to the pool following admissions of Stilnox use and childish behaviour, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that Magnussen turned to the Bulldogs to help rekindle his career. Magnussen contacted the Bulldogs two months after his failed Olympic campaign, with Hasler telling him he…
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CC photo #434: The President taking a photo of swimmers underwater
A scene from the ‘swim day’ that the Faroese Swimming Federation arranged today in Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands. The President putting his GoPro to good use, taking an underwater group photo of a batch of swimmers that had just been through a basic life saving course / swim test.
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2013 British Gas International Swim Meet LIVE on Ustream
How far we’ve come since I called GB ‘the black hole of live streaming‘. I bow to you, Brits !! :”-) (Oh well, not embeddable here, but see swimming.org then) Live Video app for Facebook by Ustream See swimming.org for results and details about this meet They are racing as we speak
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AOC to run own inquiry into Australian swimmers
Read Global Post The Australian Olympic Committee on Friday appointed a barrister to lead its own investigation into drug use and bullying by Australian swimmers at last year’s London Games. The AOC on Friday said Bret Walker would begin investigating the use of prescription drug Stilnox by members of the men’s freestyle relay team as…
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Swimming scandal fallout scares Aussie Olympic chief
Read Reuters Australia’s Olympic chief John Coates is fearful the scandal surrounding the misbehavior of the swimming team at last year’s London Games could lead to parents being reluctant to let their children take part in sport. “The last thing we want is for the mums and dads not to think of our Olympians as…