Category: Training
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Sun Yang in trouble for skipping training and breaking team rules
Read SwimNews Sun Yang, China’s double Olympic swimming gold medallist and world record over 1500m freestyle, has been suspended from all commercial activities for breaching a “series of team rules”, according to Xinhua. The Zhejiang College of Sports, to which Sun is affiliated, has also withheld his monthly allowance after the 21-year-old, who won the…
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2013 La Salle Swim and Dive Training Trip
The La Salle University Swimming and Diving team traveled to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on January 2-10 in preparation for the 2013 Atlantic 10 Championship. La Salle Athletics brings to you a unique perspective from in the pool and off the boards as the Explorers endure grueling two-a-day workouts. Shot almost entirely using the GoPro Hero…
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UIW swimming team training trip. California 2013.
“University of the Incarnate Word swimming team in California for a training trip. Best moments of a great team.”
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Ian Thorpe on getting back in the pool
Read interview in The Scotsman “During competition you have to go into yourself, but you have to have the same kind of spatial awareness of the crowd, the arena, and how that can pull into your performance. The energy from the crowd or your competitors can contribute in a very positive way to your performance.…
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Shannon Rollason (AUS) new head coach of the Danish NTC
The Danish Swimming Federation announces this morning that they have hired 40-year-old Shannon Rollason as their new head coach of the National Training Center in Copenhagen. Rollason is renowned for among other things his work with Jodie Henry and Alice Mills, gold medalists of the Athens 2004 Olympics, and comes from a similar position at…
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Bill Sweetenham temporay high performance coach of New Zealand
Read Msn Sweetenham, who oversaw the emergence of Australian legends Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett before six contentious years as high performance director of British swimming, will take up a short-term role on February 8. Swimming New Zealand said 62-year-old Sweetenham, who reviewed the organisation’s high performance structure in 2008, will be initially contracted as…
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Dr. Dr. Home Gharavi – Workshop D – The Flip Turn
Our friends Home Gharavi and Ren̩ Thomsen arranged this Athletic Performance Conference & Workshop at Bernstorffsminde Efterskole, January 7th Р11th 2013, and the video looks awesome.
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James Goddard turns to boxing to boost world championship hopes
Olympic swimmer James Goddard has turned to boxing world title hopeful Matthew Hatton to help him steal a length on rivals in the pool, aiming to get into the best shape of his career ahead of what could be his last FINA World Championships in Barcelona in July. “It’s well known how hard boxers train…
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