The 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), staged in Doha (QAT) from December 3-7, 2014 couldn’t have started in a better way: after the initial day, three World Records and six Championships records were already established, with some races having unpredictable outcomes.
Read more here on fina.org
World Record Holder (50m Breaststroke), Adam Peaty shows us his arena. Thanks for the swim tip by the way Adam!
World 1500m Silver Medalist and European Record Holder, Lotte Friis shares her number one swim tip with us.
Winner of Men’s 4x100m Freestyle at the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships in Doha.
After winning the first final of the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), Chad Le Clos won the gold in 1:41.45.
In future FINA World Aquatics Conventions, FINA Executive Director, Cornel Marculescu, hopes to see an increasing connection between National Federations and the business world around Aquatics, especially with the advancements in technology.
I am not an athletic person. In highschool I loathed PE with a pure, righteous anger, and I still haven’t gotten over my ensuing hate for organized sports. Given my proud couch potato status, I was surprised by the ways in which Touch the Wall, a documentary about Olympic swimming champs Missy Franklin and Kara Lynn Joyce, still resonated with me.
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William Trubridge, world champion and double world record-holding freediver, is the world’s best free immersion diver, and also holds the record for the “constant weight without fins” discipline.
The 34-year-old attempted to dive 102m into a cavern off the Bahamas this morning.
Trubridge looked comfortable as he attempted the 102m dive today, reaching the marker at two minutes, but shortly before the surface, the diver grabbed a safety line and was helped to top by two divers.
When he emerged from the water his wife and coach Britta could be heard saying “breathe, breathe, breathe”, to him.
The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK investigates, by
making young distance ace Henrik Christiansen wear different  of handicapping clothes and accessories, in a race against reporter Nicolay Ramm, ‘who likes to swim’.
Watch it here on NRK.
And don’t worry, you don’t need to understand Norwegian in order to enjoy ! :-)
