Watch live on the FINA YouTube Channel: Day 1 of the 8th event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Tokyo (Japan).
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Mental Toughness Tips for Swimmers
Guest post by Chelsea Watterston / Premier Pools
The term ‘mental toughness’ refers to the resolve not to quit. Specifically, it’s the mental force that helps you stay on track and focus on maintaining perfect form even when your lungs and muscles are about to give up on you. This is what certain sports fans call ‘heart’ or ‘the will to win,’ and is romanticised in fiction as the force that spells the difference between victory and defeat.
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LIVE | Day 2 – FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 #7 Singapore
Watch live on the FINA YouTube Channel: Day 2 of the 7th event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Singapore.
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Lies Swimmers Tell Their Coaches
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Bolton Strid: A Stream That Swallows People
Between Barden Tower and Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, England, lies one of nature’s most dangerous booby traps. It’s a small innocuous-looking mountain stream, about six feet across, known as Bolton Strid, or simply the Strid. But below the water’s surface is a deep chasm with powerful undercurrents that pulls anybody that falls into it to certain death. It is believed that not a single person who has fallen into the Strid has ever come out of it alive. Not even their bodies.
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Diver survives being trapped inside cage with great white shark
A diver escaped unscathed after he was trapped in a cage underwater with a great white shark.
Footage of the incident, which took place near Guadalupe Island off the west coast of Mexico, shows the shark lunging for a large chunk of tuna that is tied to a rope from a boat.
According to the video, which was published online, a diver was inside a metal cage to capture the act on camera while people on the boat looked on.
See the Telegraph
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Norwegian Spirit cruise ship pool during rough seas
Norwegian Spirit cruise ship pool during rough seas 4/7/16
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Martin Truijens to be Head Coach of the Danish NTC
The Danish Swimming Federation has signed a contract with Martin Truijens for the position of Head Coach at the National Training Centre (NTC) at Bellahøj Aquatic Centre from 1 January 2017.
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LIVE | Day 2 – FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 #6 Doha
Starts: October 9, 2016
Watch live on the FINA YouTube Channel: Day 2 of the sixth event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Doha (QAT).
