Category: Organization
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Australian Olympic swimmer refused ‘B12 injection’ back in the 1980s
Read The Sydney Morning Herald An Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer has revealed she refused her coach’s instructions to take a vitamin injection for fear it contained illegal performance-enhancing substances. The female freestyler was a mainstay of the national squad during the 1980s, winning Olympic and Commonwealth medals. As a teenager, she said she felt pressured…
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Swim team banned from pool because of 87F/30C water temperature
Read The Daily Times City officials have informed a competitive swim team that it can no longer practice at the Bloomfield Family Aquatic Center pool. The team of 20 kids, ages 5-17, have used the pool for nearly five years for practices led by coaches Todd Adams and Mike McLehan, both swim instructors certified by…
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Former Treasurer Sentenced for Stealing from Swim Club
Read wkbn27 The former treasurer of the Poland Swim Club was sentenced Friday to five years probation and to pay back the remainder of the $25,000 he pleaded guilty to stealing from the club. Brad Sackella, 40, of Four Seasons Trail, was handed down the sentence Friday by Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge R.…
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CC photo #406: Another day, another course
This weekend a basic coaching course arranged by the Faroese Sports Federation with instructors from the Danish Sports Federation. This website slow because of busyness and all that.
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Swimming Master’s Hymn
“Twenty years have past since the foundation of Tenerife Masters’ Swimming Master Club. To celebrate this occasion, this song have been created from the inside with all the feeling hoping that it can become a symbol for all of us.”
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Swim for MS with Missy Franklin
Four-time Olympic gold medalist and MSAA Swim for MS Ambassador Missy Franklin talks about her love of swimming and supporting the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America.
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Widespread doping scandal rocks Australia
Australian sport has been rocked by an Australian Crime Commission investigation revealing wide spread drug use across multiple codes and driven by coaches, sports scientists and doctors, with links to organised crime, risk of athletes being co-opted into match fixing and even use of drugs not yet approved for human use. Read for instance The…
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Brentwood swim coach accused of sex abuse
Read St. Louis Post-Dispatch A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses an unidentified swim coach who worked at the YMCA in the late 1980s of sexually abusing two students. The suit, filed in St. Louis County Circuit Court, says that the boys took lessons at the Mid-County branch of the St. Louis YMCA in Brentwood in 1986…
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Scottish Swimming Sponsorship Video 2013
“With the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on our horizon, we have a unique opportunity to work together to support our athletes, connect with our communities and create a lasting legacy for Scotland. We would like to invite you to come with us on a great journey.”