Category: Training
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Sun Yang resumes training
Read ChinaDaily Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang arrived at a natatorium in Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan in southwest China, on Thursday afternoon to resume altitude training on the plateau. Sun arrived at Kunming Tianyi sports center with members of the Zhejiang provincial swimming team at around 4 p.m. and began training. Sun has…
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The Independent: Meet Ruta Meilutyte ‘our secret world and Olympic star’
Read the Independent Robin Scott-Elliot meets the Plymouth schoolgirl who is the fastest breaststroker ever – famous in Lithuania but unknown here.
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Controversy over practice changes at Dane County YMCA
See nbc15.com The YMCA of Dane County’s swim team practice times and pool locations are going back to normal. This comes after Y aquatics staff told parents their swimmers would be shuffled around to deal with overcrowding. The Y made the changes to free up space for other use. Upset by the decision, 120 swimmers…
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Michael Phelps Swims 10k Fitness Challenge
Michael Phelps once said 10,000 meters was the distance that challenged him most in training and now any swimmer can join the Olympic champion and swim the virtual 10,000m around the bay in Phelps’ home town of Baltimore, taking in the Inner Harbour, the Patapsco River, and, the historic Fort McHenry. http://youtu.be/wUOZTNR0mDI
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Ryan Lochte returns to water after freak injury
A bit outdated, but still … ” Five-time Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Lochte is back in the water following a freak injury. Lochte was training with SwimMAC’s Team Elite at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center Wednesday.”
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Shoulberg: “I know I’m old. But I’m efficient and old”
Read SwimmingWorld, backstory that Germantown Academy has apparently fully or partly retired legendary head coach Dick Shoulberg: Shoulberg finally talked tonight after having ignored media inquiries regarding his leave of absence from the deck. However, there is little doubt that Shoulberg would desire to return to the deck as soon as possible. “I know I’m…
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“Young talented swimmer eats 1kg of beef and 50 shrimps per meal”
Right, I’ll categorize this as it should, read VietnamNetBridge The current meals of Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, Vietnam’s young talented swimmer, in Florida, USA are huge. She has to eat one kilogram of beef, 50 shrimps, a big plate of noodles, a salad plate, nearly one liter of fresh milk, not to mention fruits in…
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CC photo #697: Still kicking
Now all together, a fun little competition – one length of kicking, all out – where each team has a noodle, and no one is allowed to let go of it. In this case hopelessly unfair, the big boys versus the small boys versus the girls. They still give it a go, though, the little…
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Fox News: YMCA swim class for Muslim girls proves Sharia law is ‘changing everything’
Read The Raw Story Fox News anchor Heather Nauert announced on Monday that a YMCA swim class that respected the religious traditions of Muslim girls was proof that “Sharia law is now changing everything.†The News Corpse calls it fear mongering.