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Category: Training

  • British Swimming and the BBC announce new 4 year rights deal

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    British Swimming today announced a four year rights deal with the BBC to broadcast swimming and other aquatic sports in the run up to the 2012 Olympics, the Commonwealth Games 2014 and beyond. Also, they partner to launch the Big Splash, a UK-wide mass-participation campaign, to get people in the pool.

  • Thorpe won’t make the 400 freestyle

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    Ian Thorpe wishes he would have made his mind up sooner, saying there is no time now to the in shape for his signature 400m freestyle before London 2012. Also, he has to work harder one the underwater part, stating “I have to get used to the idea that swimmers today are staying under the…

  • Phelps training vertical kicks with 10 kg weights

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    Funny video here, where Michael Phelps first demonstrates training vertical kicks wearing 10 kg weights, and Japanese Hisayoshi Sato then tries doing the same.

  • Bowman on North Baltimore’s preparation for big swims

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    Interesting interview here with coach Bob Bowman, CEO of North Baltimore Aquatics Club, about his swimmers preparations for last weekend and how it sets up for the summer. Estimating the level of rest that the swimmers got before the Indy meet, where 10 is total rest, Bowman says that Phelps was at 4 or 5.

  • Klim is the Comeback Kid

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    A segment out of Network Ten‘s news broadcast, interviewing Michael Klim and his coach Rohan Taylor, plus exercise scientist Jeremy Oliver.

  • The story of amazing Grace

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    USA Swimming has this fantastic story about Grace Waller, who in 2008 was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. She had to have her kneecap removed, and 6 inches of her femur plus muscle, but still managed to swim through it, switching from breaststroke to long-distance freestyle, ending up with setting the high…

  • Britons focus on turns and dolphin kicks

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    Today’s British 200 medley champion James Goddard admits accordingly to SwimNews.com that the americans have been killing them underwater, and that they are therefore focusing hard on turns and dolphin kicks. “We compared my backstroke to Ryan Lochte’s backstroke. The swimming speed was exactly the same. He just took 1.3 or 1.4 out of me…

  • Iran’s National Academy opened

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    On February 24, 2011, Iranian President Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the National Academy and West Asia Development Swimming Center. This complex contains two 50-meter swimming pools, one indoor and one outdoor with warm water, a diving pool, a 25-meter warm-up indoor pool, ten saunas (steam and dry), ten jacuzzis, ten hydrotherapy swimming pools as well…

  • The Pál Pool of Vágur will not only be for the elite

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    A segment here from the national Faroese news broadcast “Dagur & Vika” this evening, where Jón Bjarnason coach of Pál Joensen dismisses rumors that the planned 50 meter pool of their hometown Vágur in the Faroe Islands will be ‘too cheap’, and counters with saying that this is true regional development, not only focusing on…