See fina.org and the attached information bulletin and programme
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Peaty, Ledecky, Phelps and Dias honoured with nomination for Laureus Sports Award
Triple World Champion Adam Peaty has been honoured by worldwide sports writers with a nomination in the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award.
Peaty not only world three world titles through 2015 he also lowered the world records first at British Swimming Championships in London and then at the World Championships in Kazan.
He was then shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award before now being recognised at the Laureus Sports Awards.
Other swimming athletes to be nominated are Katie Ledecky (World Sportswoman of the Year Award), Michael Phelps (World Comeback of the Year) and Daniel Dias (World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award).
Read swimming.org
https://youtu.be/gq1WU9LhzlI
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How to Create Water Illusions Using a Camera
What you’ll need is some running water, a digital camera, a speaker, and a tone generator app. By sending a bass tone through the speaker at a frequency that matches up with the frame rate of your camera (e.g. 24hz bass tone and your camera recording at 24fps), the water will look like it’s frozen in time as it travels through the air.
See PetaPixel
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Freediving How to hold your breath longer – Dry static
This is the first video in my “breathing technique series”. This is a dry static (on land) practice video There are several other ways of doing this, but this one is the most easy one to get going.
https://youtu.be/BWRiVNE0spw
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Gopher Men’s Swimming & Diving Final Day of 2016 Big Ten Championships
The Golden Gophers finished fourth at the 2016 Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships tonight in West Lafayette, Ind., after totaling 919 points over the course of the meet. Minnesota’s Matt Barnard was named to the All-Big Ten First Team, while Jakub Maly and Manny Pollard were selected to the All-Big Ten Second Team.
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Oakland Swimming and Diving coach Pete Hovland named Michigan Sports Hall of Famer
While Pete Hovland was leading his men’s and women’s teams to their 38th and 23rd straight conference titles over the weekend, he received a very special call. Brad Galli has more.
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Swimming: Dolphins team excels at Kenya swimming championships
Dolphins swim club Kampala has finished the 2016 Kenya Swimming Championships on a high at the Kasarani Aquatics Arena.
The championships are contested across different categories such as National Age Groups, Open and Relays. Joel Khamadi travelled to the Kenyan capital where he watched the Ugandan team cover itself in glory.
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LIVE: Michael Phelps in Orlando
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Andrew Lum on what he learned as a college athlete
Andrew Lum, a swimmer at Willamette University, discusses the life lessons he learned as a college athlete.
