Category: Organization
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Principal to swim with sharks after students meet challenge
Aaah, Principal Fradley has surely learned a lesson about motivation, promising to swim with the sharks at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, if his students raised more than $20,000 at a Walk-A-Thon in September. “I really didn’t think they would do it, because last year we raised $12,000,” Dr. Fradley said. Oh well, they did,…
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Ryk Neethling in fight with former assistants over clients
Olympic gold medallist Ryk Neethling is seeking a court order to stop his former swimming instructors Lizette Botha and Uschi Dahlmann from “soliciting” his clients and competing with his swimming schools, allegedly by having gotten hands on his client database. Read The Star
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Michael Phelps spreads word to save Maryland Swimming
The most decorated athlete in Olympic history is among those calling foul over a proposal to cut 8 varsity sports at the University of Maryland, including men’s and women’s swimming and diving. Read wusa9.com
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WADA threatens to declare Britain non-compliant with global anti-doping code
The World Anti-Doping Agency says Britain could be declared non-compliant rules this weekend if it keeps its lifetime Olympic ban for drug violators. Read The Washington Post.
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Maryland Swimming in dire straits, let’s help out !
A call to arms here on GoSwim.tv: There is an epidemic in swimming right now, and Maryland is latest in a long line of schools dropping swimming from their programs. This is also a notice to all college coaches, your programs are NOT safe. In my humble opinion, you’re not just a coach anymore, it’s…
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Swim legend Mark Spitz backs the Big Splash mile
Fun fact in this video, Mark Spitz’s swimming career started with him doing well in a swim across a pool, mostly because he was called last because of his name starting with an “S”, and therefore was cold. Big Splash via the BBC
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UK 2011 Swimming and Diving Intro Video
OK, University of Kentucky, you win :-) UK 2011 Swimming and Diving Intro Video from UK Sports Video on Vimeo.
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The Steroid-Dealing, Ecstasy-Smuggling, Dead-Body-Burning Swim Coach
… that parents still want to coach their children. Wild story! I was told to tread carefully. I was told that the man in the headline above could be litigious, and that he had deep pockets. There’s also the matter of him burning and burying a dead body on his own property… During the trial…
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CAS dismisses Olympic ban on doping offenders
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared the way today for several dozen former doping offenders to compete at next year’s London 2012 Olympics, by ruling the ‘Osaka’ clause “invalid and unenforceable”, that bars from the Games anyone who has served a suspension of six months or more since the last Olympics. Read for…