Category: Organization
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IOC campaign “Best of Us” asks all youths to share their best
Anchored by this “The Yellow Line” commercial featuring Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, the Olympic Committee encourages all young athletes to record and submit videos of “their personal best” to the web site olympic.org/showyourbest, and to vote on other submitted videos. The site will include a “mash-up creator” which takes the user-submitted videos and mixes…
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State Insurance – Swim Promo
Cool promo video here, I guess promoting the State NZ Ocean Swim Series State Insurance – Swim Promo from Gemma Heyes on Vimeo.
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Maryland Swimming will stay if they raise $11.56 million by June 30
University of Maryland president Wallace Loh announced today that they’ll cut eight sports from its athletics roster, including swimming & diving – but also that the teams each have a chance to save themselves by raising eight years of total costs by June 30. The swimming teams will need to raise $11.56 million, while women’s…
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Great Britain now technically banned from London 2012
Crazy, WADA has now declared the British Olympic Association (BOA) “non-compliant” with the WADA Code, which means that the host nation is technically unable to compete at London 2012. The row is over CAS/WADA lifting the ‘Osaka Rule’ that bars from the next games anyone who has served a doping suspension of 6 months or…
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In Massachusetts, boys compete as girls ?
So, my good American friends, I am really confused by this: At Norwood High in Massachusetts, boys compete on girls teams because their schools do not have boys swimming programs. Able to do so because the open access amendments to the state constitution mandates that boys and girls must be afforded equal access to athletics.…
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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.