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  • One of the most common problems in swimming is holding the head too high. In Backstroke, this swimming technique is common because it increases the pulling power and the awareness of where a swimmer’s body position is in the lane, particularly outdoors in the bright sun however elevating the head in swimming backstroke increases frontal drag, slowing the swimmer down.

    Learn how to swim Backstroke the way we teach at the Race Club swim camps with proper swimming techniques demonstrated by World Champion Japanese Swimmer Junya Koga. These swim drills will certainly enhance your swim training program.

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  • Trans World Sport filmed with a talented 18-year-old swimmer by the name of Michael Phelps as he trained for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Since then he has gone on to become the most decorated Olympian of all time with 22 medals, 18 gold.

  • According to China Anti-Doping Agency, the country’s most successful swimmer Sun Yang tested positive for a banned stimulant back in May. Sun has already served the three-month ban earlier this year and has been stripped of his 1500-meter freestyle gold that he won at the national championship. But many are wondering why the announcement came six months after the failed test? Check this video for more details.

  • Chinese doping officials say they were not trying to cover up Sun Yang’s positive test and that they held back news of his three-month suspension because they did not want to make any mistakes with “the most famous athlete in China”.

    Sun, China’s most successful male swimmer, secretly served his ban during May and August after testing positive for the banned stimulant trimetazidine.

    It was only on Monday that the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) revealed the 22-year-old world and Olympic champion had committed a doping offence.

    “Sun is the most famous athlete in China and is known in the world, which means we need to handle his case very cautiously,” CHINADA deputy director Zhao Jian told the country’s official Xinhua news agency.

    “This is huge bad news but we will not cover it up.

    “We announce positive cases and test statistics in our quarterly reports just as WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) requires.”

    Read Reuters

  • This year’s FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Doha is not only a highlight event in the global sporting calendar but is lining up to be the must-attend event in Qatar this year. Over five days, the world’s fastest swimmers will compete at Hamad Aquatic Centre for the ultimate prize – title of World Champion.
    In an interview ahead of the Championships, Serbian swimmer Velimir Stjepanovic said that he has already moved over his two gold medals at the European Championships (LC) in Berlin earlier this year, and what inspires him, among other things.

    Read Gulf Times

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  • World-famous Hungarian female swimmer Katinka Hosszú has announced on her Facebook page that her motivational book “The Hungarian Iron Lady”, the Hungarian edition of which hit the stores on 22 November, will appear in English next April. […]

    In an interview given to Metropol in September, Ms. Hosszú explains the massive changes she has undergone since the London Olympics both as a swimmer and in human terms. In the book, she wishes to hand on the experiences gained during the past twenty years, with special emphasis on the two years prior to its publication. She described her work as a motivational book aimed to inspire the Olympic champions of the future generation. In the final words of the interview, she promises an explanation for her nickname “Iron Lady” in the book.

    Read Hungary Today

  • Chinese multi-Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang had failed a doping test and been banned for three months, China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) told Xinhua on Monday.

    Sun tested positive for stimulant trimetazidine in an in-competition doping test on May 17 during the national swimming championships.

    Sun gave up the chance to have the B sample tested but defended himself in a July hearing where the experts decided to hand him a three-month ban.

    Sun said he used the prescription drug Vasorel for medical reasons and had been unaware that its substance trimetazidine was listed in WADA’s 2014 prohibited list. Trimetazidine is able to increase coronary flow reserve and was added to the prohibited list in January 2014.

    “Sun proved with sufficient evidence that he did not intend to cheat, which helped reduce his ban to three months,” explained Zhao Jia, deputy director of CHINADA.

    “But his failure to inform the doping control official should be punished all the same,” he added.

    Read Xinhua

    According to another story on Xinhua, the quarantine has already passed

    The multi-Olympic and world champion tested positive for stimulant trimetazidine on May 17 during the national swimming championships and had been banned for three months till August 16, China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) told Xinhua on Monday.

    FINA has it on its antidoping reports list this morning

    Doping Offence – Sun Yang (CHN)
    On May 17, 2014, the swimmer Sun Yang (CHN) was tested positive to the substance Trimetazidine (Class S.6.b Specified Stimulants) following an in-competition doping control test conducted with the occasion of the Chinese National Championships.

    The China Swimming Association imposed a sanction of 3 months’ ineligibility on the athlete starting on May 17, 2014. Furthermore, the China Swimming Association imposed a sanction of 1 year ineligibility on Ba Zhen, the doctor of the athlete, starting on the same date.

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