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  • Swim Ladies – Synchronized Dance Show – Cote d’Azur

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Synchronized Swimming

    Discover an amazing experience in the French Riviera with Swim Ladies : A Synchronized swim dance show.

  • Where to get free swim lessons in the Bay Area

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Organization

    The Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA is teaming up with the Tampa Bay Rays to offer free Safety Around Water lessons to children March 12-15 to coincide with Hillsborough County Public Schools spring break. It’s open to the entire community, beginners and non-swimmers, ages 3-12 years.

  • Rise and shiners: North Texas swim coach surprised

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Rise and shiners: North Texas swim coach surprised

  • Atlanta Swim 1922 Clinic with Lia Neal

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Safety

    Lia Neal shares her experience from the Swim 1922 Clinic that took place as part of the TYR Pro Swim Series at Atlanta.

  • 2018 Pac-12 Hall of Honor Inductee: California swimmer Matt Biondi

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Competition, History

    Former Cal swimmer Matt Biondi is a member of the 2018 Pac-12 Hall of Honor class. During his time at Cal (1983-87), Biondi won 12 NCAA championships and 14 conference titles, eventually earning the Pac-12 Men’s Swimmer of the Century honor in 2016. He was a three-time Olympian, earning 11 total medals.

  • Senior Olympic Hopeful Swimmer Stan in Delray Beach

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Masters

    “My mother influenced me because she could swim, and my father influenced me because he couldn’t” :-)

  • US Olympic Swim Team Captain on the Phlex Edge

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Technology

    We are 2 weeks into our campaign for the EDGE, a revolutionary swimming fitness tracker that has been met with incredible support by the swimming community. We figured as we go through the campaign, we would not only highlight the vital features that the EDGE has to offer for swimmers, but some of the people that were involved in the creation of this incredible device.

  • What Marketers Can Learn From The Declining Olympics Viewership

    Mar 9, 2018

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    rokur
    in Organization

    There was a day when we all sat down, as families, to watch the Olympics. We carved out time in our weekends and each night to watch key events. Today, that is not the case. A February 2018 Gallup poll showed that 61% of Americans didn’t plan to view the Olympic Games at all. The number of older Americans who did plan to watch is down, and the percentage of younger Americans is even lower. Actual data on Olympics viewership shows that TV viewership was down 8% compared to 2014. For those who do still watch the Olympics, we do it in a dramatically different way. Why?

    Read Forbes

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  • ‘In the water you’re weightless’: the 99-year-old swimmer breaking records

    Mar 8, 2018

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    rokur
    in Masters

    George Corones waited nearly 100 years for a world record, and then two came along at once. The 99-year old Queenslander, who is wary of causing too much fuss, broke his first on Wednesday last week and by Saturday he had two to his name.

    He hit the wall at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in 56 seconds across 50m, and in two-and-a-half minutes across 100m, smashing the record for his age group – 100 to 104. A delirious home crowd watched him become master of a very specific slice of the world.

    Corones, who stopped swimming at the start of the second world war and did not start again until he was 80, is sheepish about what he has done. He is doing his best to be unimpressed with himself and is certain his time will be beaten.

    “All I can say is the public have amazed me,” he tells Guardian Australia. “They’ve overwhelmed me and they’ve been overly generous in their response to what has happened. I certainly didn’t anticipate any of this.”

    Read The Guardian

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