• Swimmerix Ltd announces the launch of a revolutionary device that will transform pool sessions for swimmers at all levels — from absolute beginners to Olympic champions.

    If you like the idea, we are ready to bring it to life. In February, we’ll start crowdfunding Swimmerix on Kickstarter. The very first 500 Swimmerix kits will be sold at a reduced price of 99 USD.

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  • Sahal Hussein, from Somalia, is a sophomore at Lafayette High School

  • If the Christmas excess still isn’t budging and you’re thinking about getting round to some exercise – how’s this for motivation? In a few weeks, Ben Hooper, a former policeman, will try to become first person to swim the Atlantic Ocean – more than one thousand, eight hundred miles of it. But it’s not only the huge distance he’ll have to overcome – there are sharks and jellyfish too. Simon Vigar went to see him in training.

  • Watch our waterside video interview with Team Speedo USA swim star and Olympic gold medallist, Jessica Hardy. We chat Disney movies, sport and people watching with the 11-time world record holder.

  • The victory of the Hungarian capital to host the event, which carries a whopping HUF 49bn price tag, was announced in May 2015. Two of the competition venues will be located in Margaret Island: a brand-new indoor swimming pool complex for swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, and the existing Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium for water polo. Open water swimming and high diving events will he held at Lake Balaton. A total of 5 billion viewers are expected to tune in to the event at some point of the two-week championship.

    See Hungary Today

    https://youtu.be/C0JTGlo26_w

  • Excitements arrived to the Kombank Arena on the second day of the championships: in the men’s competition Hungary and Greece produced a thriller, ending in the first tie of the event (8-8), while the Serbian women offered their best against Germany but finally they lost 13-14.

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  • Badger Swim Club is one of the most successful clubs in the United States, training many of the worlds greatest swimmers and coaches. World Sport sat down with head coach John Collins and Puerto Rican Swim Team member, Eric Culver, as they discuss the perfect backstroke.

  • 75-year-old László Kiss will continue coaching Hungary’s national swimming team after having initially tendered his resignation in the midst of a highly publicised brawl between the country’s swimming federation and Katinka Hosszú, the world’s number-one female swimmer.

    Mr. Kiss changed his mind after receiving the backing of 110 colleagues – including five-times Olympic champion Krisztina Egerszegi – and a personal phone call from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who in a Friday radio interview pledged to act as a mediator between the conflicting parties.

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