The Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics (AGUA) Swim Team dominated the 2016 Metropolitan Swimming Junior Olympics March 11 to March 13, bringing home the overall team title as well as the combined 11-12 and 13-14 age group titles. AGUA swimmers rose to the occasion, snapping meet-favorite Long Island Aquatic Club’s (LIAC), 15-year winning streak.
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Ger Kennedy is an Irish cold swimmer. He arrived in Yakutsk, Russia’s Siberia, on March 5th, 2016, in the early morning and we went to the place called Elanka on the Lena River. 2,5 hr by car. After, he swam 52 m under the ice. The temp of water under the ice was -1C. Air temp -13,8C. Depth 4,7-5 m. Ice thickness ~80 cm. Visibility ~10-15 m. Everything went safe. Thanks to Sergey Sobolev and his team, who made an Irish dream come true. Location search took 2 weekends, ice holes cutting 2 days, ice hole swimming 4 minutes only.
Michael Phelps continued to expand his reach in his new Arizona home Saturday with appearances at two Arizona State campuses to promote Pitchfork Aquatics Swim School.
Pitchfork Aquatics is the first Arizona licensee of the Michael Phelps Swimming program, which teaches safety, fitness and performance.
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I get to Morrison’s Quarry in Chelsea, Que., just north of Ottawa, on a cold and blustery day. It feels like – 21 with the wind chill, and Philip Beauchamp is chainsawing a portal into the icy water below.
We’re about to jump in.
This is an extreme sport. Free-diving means no air supply — you need just one big breath and a whole lot of lung capacity.
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Two words went through Mark Hefley’s head in the moments after he leaned too far back and toppled off an 11th-floor Florida balcony Tuesday.
The first word was “Oh”; the second was an expletive that won’t be published in IndyStar.
“It just felt like it was a long way down,” Hefley, 38, told IndyStar on Friday. He’s back home in Greenwood now, nursing bruises and a bloody nose but thankful to be alive.
The head of South Korea’s top swimming governing body will submit his resignation this month following its executives’ corruption scandals, a national swimming official said Thursday.
According to the Korea Swimming Federation official, who asked not to be named, KSF President Lee Ki-heung said at a Tuesday meeting with executives from regional swimming federations that he will resign from his post.
The 61-year-old also pushed to hold a board meeting and general assembly in Jeju on March 18 to discuss the retirement of current executives at the KSF, including himself, and initiate an “innovation committee” to tackle the corruption scandal.
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The web’s most popular swim shop is unveiling the web’s most popular tech suit review this week. On Tuesday, March 8, SwimOutlet.com publishes its 2016 Tech Suit Review, written and compiled by two-time gold medalist Mark Gangloff and Olympic Trials and NCAA finalist Julie Stupp. The review has become SwimOutlet.com’s most popular product category guide and is the go-to destination for customers and swim fans around the world to read independent opinions and reviews about racing suits from all brands each year.
“We are proud of what our 2016 Tech Suit Review has become in just a few short years: an educated and opinionated guide by two elite swimmers and suit experts about the best tech suits launched on the market each year,†said Rob Penner, VP, Sports Marketing at SwimOutlet.com.
In their fourth year of writing reviews of the world’s best technical racing suits, Gangloff andStupp have now tested over 30 suits from dozens of brands around the world. Their reviews include briefings from the product teams in January and multiple wear tests in pools throughout February.
The highlights from the 2016 Tech Suit Review include:
​The suits reviewed in 2016 include the Arena Carbon, FINIS Onyx, A3 Performance Legend, Funky Trunks/Funkita Apex Stealth, Jaked JKeel and FINIS Fuse.
The “Damn Daniel” video has completely taken over the Internet this week, making its star Daniel Lara a viral sensation. Lara even appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with the video’s co-creator Josh Holz and was gifted a lifetime supply of Vans. But, it looks like the California high schooler isn’t taking advantage of every opportunity coming his way thanks to his newfound fame. A friend of his told Hollywood Life that Lara has turned down an offer from a modeling agency, so that he can pursue his college swimming scholarship. He goes on to say that the teen has remained incredibly modest, despite the video being shared over 400,000 times.
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Mitch Larkin had as good of a year as any swimmer in 2015 winning double gold at the World Championships and breaking the short course world record in the 200 backstroke.
