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  • Learn How To Sight for Open Water Swimming from Open water swimmer Sarah Ferguson. In this video sarah explains how to sight for open water marathon races and ironman triathlon swims compared to sighting for open water swims in the open ocean. These tips and tricks will help you with your swimming sighting technique and help you swim straighter by getting your sea swim sighting on point.

    Sarah Ferguson is an Open Water Swimmer from Durban South Africa Sarah is a physiotherapist and runs a private practice in Durban North at a multi-disciplinary center. She is also a motivational speaker, Pilates instructor, retired National Swimmer and swim coach.

  • This is not what I usually do on this site, but feel that I have to speak out, as president of a tiny swimming federation, and as a fellow human being.

    Despite all good efforts made by federations and clubs around the world, canceling major meets and urging everyone to take care, I suspect that athletes are still trying to keep in shape, in case the Olympics happen.

    This has to stop and can stop if the International Olympic Committee acts responsibly now!

    Yes, I understand that there might be a big bill to pick up, but after all that is only money. I will go as far as to say, that if the IOC ever should have to go bankrupt, this would the most honorable reason. To save lives.

    As soon as the Olympics are gone from our schedule, it should be natural for at least Olympic trials and qualification meets to be canceled, or morphed into meets that are maybe less significant but can be still fun and festive.

    There is so much time being lost at the moment, trying to find solutions to a problem that really doesn’t have to be.

    And there are so many human ressources being spent that would be to much better use right now figuring how to help out from within quarantine.

    This has to happen now, in order for us all to try to get this pandemic under control, and hopefully lose as few lives as possible.

    Never mind this sports season, it is pretty much already gone, at least if you judge it from the point of fairness and sportsmanship

    Let’s take a break and weather this out, to meet again afterward in a true Olympic spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.

    Yours sincerely

    Rókur

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  • The Poems of Emily Dickinson explained with poem summaries in just a few minutes!

    Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe provides an in-depth summary and analysis of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Two swimmers wrestled on the spar—.”

  • “The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) regrets very much that it has to announce the cancellation of the up-coming legs of the Greek leg of the Olympic Torch Relay. This is even more regrettable after the huge success of the relay during its first two days with big crowds gathering along the route and at the ceremonies. Unfortunately, the latest developments concerning the spread of the COVID-19 virus has led the HOC, in association with the Greek Ministry of Health, to the conclusion that this was the best possible decision in order to contribute to the containment of the virus. The Olympic Flame will be handed over as planned to the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee on Thursday, March 19th at the Panathenaic Stadium, although there will be no public in attendance.”

  • The European Aquatics Championships must be hanging in a very thin thread also, set to start in Budapest on 11 May 2020, with Giro d’Italia now postponing its Hungary stages on 9-11 May.

    Italy’s biggest cycling event, the Giro d’Italia, has been postponed after Hungary, the nation where this year’s tour was due to begin, declared a state of emergency.

    Set to start on May 9 in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, the race was set for three stages in the nation before moving to Italy for the rest of the tour which was due to finish on May 31.

    However, the organisers have postponed the event indefinitely, citing that no rearrangement will be made before April 3.

    Read Inside the Games

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  • Super speedy swims while racing in Des Moines, Iowa for the Pro Swim Series. I walk you through my pre race routines and speak about CORONAVIRUS!

  • The grand opening ceremony of the Tokyo Aquatics Centre has been postponed, with a rescheduled event set to take place without members of the public.

    The opening ceremony had been scheduled to take place on March 22.

    The event was postponed as part of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) announced.

    “In addition, in the interest of public safety it has been decided that the opening ceremony, when rescheduled, will not be open to the public,” a TMG statement read.

    The ceremony was originally set to be attended by members of the public, who had applied in advance to watch the event.

    Read Inside the Games

     

  • Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing. Since then, he’s climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namib Desert with no water and proven under a laboratory setting that he’s able to influence his autonomic nervous system and immune system at will.

    Almost everything Wim has done was previously thought to be impossible – but he’s not a freak of nature.

    To demonstrate that any human can learn his methods, Wim offered to teach Matt Shea and Daisy-May Hudson to climb a freezing cold mountain in their shorts without getting cold. But when Matt and Daisy signed up for the training, they had no idea that the so-called Iceman was planning to lead them on a psychedelic journey across Europe that circled the chasm between science, spirituality, and mystery.

  • The International Olympic Committee will follow the World Health Organisation’s recommendation on whether to cancel or postpone this year’s Tokyo Olympics over the coronavirus pandemic, IOC chief Thomas Bach said Thursday.

    In an interview with German television ARD, Bach said his organisation has been in regular contact with WHO experts since mid-February over the issue.

    “We will follow the advice of the WHO,” he said, adding that the IOC was now still working towards preparing for a “successful” Games.

    With cancellations of Olympic qualifiers piling up as countries unroll drastic measures to halt the contagion, Bach acknowledged that there are “serious problems with qualification competitions”.

    “Here we will have to react very flexibly,” he said, adding that this could be through postponing competitions or changing qualification criteria.

    What is key, he said, is that athletes, particularly those from countries hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, must be offered “fair qualification under these very difficult conditions”.

    Read Hindustan Times