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Category: Training

  • 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…

  • Danish kids don’t know how to swim

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    57 percent of Danish kids have never had any kind of formal swimming instructions, according to a study released by Børneulykkesfonden (Children’s Accident Foundation). The municipalities decide if swimming shall be part of the physical education in schools, but still parent expect their kids to automatically learn to swim there. Michael Aller chairman of RÃ¥det…

  • SWAT team storms swimming pool in NZ

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    Armed police gave the children a scare when they stormed the Papamoa Swimming Club lesson in Papamoa, New Zealand, apprehending the man they were after, but not before all of the people at the swimming pool were ordered to lay on the ground. Once the man was apprehended, the police took time to talk with…

  • Adlington fights to preserve swimming pools

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    Olympic swimming champions Duncan Goodhew and Rebecca Adlington have joined forces with the British swimming sponsor British Gas and the ASA to support the launch of a new website Pool Watch, to provide a potential lifeline for local communities fighting to keep their local swimming pools afloat. Swimming is the UK’s biggest participation sport, and…

  • Thorpe to sign deal with Touretski

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    According to the Herald Sun, russian Gennadij Touretski, who guided the careers of Olympic gold medallists and world record-breakers Michael Klim and Alexander Popov, is set to formally secure a new coaching deal with Ian Thorpe. Touretski coaches out of Tenero, a small town on the shores of Lake Maggiore, about an hour’s drive from…