Category: Organization
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Brendan Hansen and Rowdy Gaines at the 2012 Golden Goggles Award Show
Feature on USA Swimming Foundation and Brendan Hansen , courtesy of USA Swimming
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Sweden selects 12 women, 2 men for the Istanbul 2012 World Championships
The Swedish Swimming Federation today selected the Istanbul 2012 national squad, including Therese Alshammar, Jennie Johansson and that controversial Simon Sjödin, but not Sarah Sjöström. Sjöström has said earlier that she was unsure about her World Championships participation, and would use the Swedish short course championships this weekend to gauge her form, I guess that…
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The International Sports Press Survey 2011 finds sports journalism to be a man’s world
According to new research on sports coverage in 80 newspapers from 22 countries, sport journalism is clearly a soccer-focused man’s world. More than 90% of the named journalists are male, and 85% of the articles written about individuals – typically athletes – about men. FIFA’s football (soccer) can be called the only “world media sport”,…
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Australian swim chief quits after London 2012 debacle
Swimming Australia chief executive Kevin Neil has quit his post in the wake of the team’s poor showing at the London Olympics, which was tarred by reports of pranks and ill-discipline. Neil has denied he was a casualty of the swim team’s below-par Olympic campaign but he admitted the pressure of the role has had…
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British Swimming’s chief Michael Scott quits after London 2012 flop
Michael Scott has resigned as British Swimming national performance director following a review into Team GB’s performance at the London 2012 Olympics. Great Britain fell two medals short of their target of five podium places, initially Australia-based Scott had stated he would not resign from his post, but, after the five-man review panel recommended he…
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Students learn to swim for safety
Grade three students across Ontario can add water safety to the list of what they learned in school. It’s part of the provincial swim to survive program, started by the life saving society of Ontario. Students learn to swim for safety from QNet News on Vimeo.
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Danes looking for a new national coach
The Danish Swimming Federation released this job advertisement today, searching for a national coach to ‘ensure the continued development of Danish elite swimming to the highest possible international level’. The specific goal to achieve medals at the Olympics, World Championships and European Championships, and the primary focus on international long course championships. The former job…