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  • Coaches will understand the importance of this week’s video, especially when working with younger swimmers.

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  • If they had timed their escape just right, three prisoners who slipped out of Alcatraz more than 50 years ago on a raft made from raincoats would have had a chance of survival, new research shows.

    Scientists who were studying the San Francisco Bay’s strong tides reconstructed the possible routes of the audacious 1962 escape. The men might have been able to find shelter on an outcrop near the Golden Gate Bridge — that is, if they weren’t swept out to sea first, according to the study.

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    Animation The Great Escape from pieter on Vimeo.

  • Swim for Tri coach Dan Bullock gives you open water and triathlon tips for body position in the water.

  • In this PSA, Bob Bowman, CEO/Head Coach of North Baltimore Aquatic Club, discusses the very serious topic of Shallow Water Blackout. Even experienced athletes can become a victim of this tragic phenomenon where oxygen is deprived from a swimmer’s system during practice which can lead to drowning. This PSA can help to prepare even highly experienced coaches to provide a safer environment for their swimmers.

  • Olympic gold medallist Brittany Elmslie has made the ultimate food sacrifice as she embarks on her journey to the Rio Games.

    Three months after learning she suffered from coeliac disease, the 20-year-old is flying towards her goal despite giving up her secret weapon, Vegemite.

    “I was devastated when I realised Vegemite wasn’t gluten free,” she said.

    Coeliac disease occurs when the immune system reacts to gluten, causing problems in the bowel, and Elmslie was diagnosed after she returned from the Commonwealth Games in August.

    She called her diagnosis “a blessing in disguise’’ after battling to explain feeling consistently flat in training.

    “We couldn’t figure out why some afternoons I’d be completely sapped of energy,” she said.

    “It’s just been a change of lifestyle. I”m completely gluten free now and I’ve got a lot more energy to go faster in training.”

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  • The World Anti-Doping agency will not appeal a three-month ban imposed against China’s controversial double Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang but will warn China over the case.

    WADA had considered action after Sun failed a doping test in May and was banned for three months by the Chinese federation but it was only announced in November after Sun had won more titles at the Asian Games.

    “WADA has reviewed the full case file for the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and has decided not to appeal the decision by the Chinese Swimming Federation to impose a three-month sanction,” WADA spokesman Ben Nichols told AFP in a statement.

    “WADA has written to CHINADA however, raising its concern over the delayed public reporting of the case,” the spokesman added.

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  • Create half-ring vortices in a pool by sliding a plate through water and adding food coloring to the ends.

  • Located in Manchester, England, the Victoria Baths were originally a lush public bath house that catered to flocks of local bathers, but by the 1990s the ornate public pool had fallen into disrepair, until it was voted to be saved on a television competition.

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