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 Lรกszlรณ Kiss will continue coaching Hungaryโs national swimming team after having initially tendered his resignation in the midst of a highly publicised brawl between the countryโs swimming federation and Katinka Hosszรบ, the worldโs number-one female swimmer.
Mr. Kiss changed his mind after receiving the backing of 110 colleagues โ including five-times Olympic champion Krisztina Egerszegi โ and a personal phone call from Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn, who in a Friday radio interview pledged to act as a mediator between the conflicting parties.
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Many of us would steer clear of a cheetah encounter, but not for this tourist.
Gareth Poley, a digital and media creative director from Auckland, New Zealand, was filmed stroking a tame cheetah as it sipped water from a game reserve’s swimming pool in South Africa.
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Stockholm’s largest swimming centre, Eriksdalsbadet is making waves after deciding to introduce segregated jacuzzis, following reports of groping beneath the bubbles.
Sweden may have an international reputation for promoting gender equality, but the Eriksdalsbadet complex โ home to one of the most popular public swimming pools in Sweden โ is introducing segregated hot tubs for the first time.
The move follows reports by increasing numbers of women, who claim they have been groped by men as they relax in the giant bubble baths.
โWeโve got a lot of requests, especially from women, to split the jacuzzis,โ Sara Franzรฉn Shilwan, the head of unit at Eriksdalsbadet told The Local, but refused to reveal the number of complaints made.
However she confirmed that there had been a noticeable rise in November and December last year.
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Until a few years ago, not many people paid much attention to the extreme sport of free diving. That’s where a swimmer packs as much air as they can into their lungs and plunges as deep as they possibly can into the sea – no oxygen tank, just that one breath to keep them going. But in November of 2013, a tragedy brought free diving into the spotlight when Nicholas Mevoli from Brooklyn died while attempting a record-breaking plunge in the Bahamas. Writer Adam Skolnick was there to cover that event, and Mevoli’s death brought him inside this sport in a way he never expected. His new book is called “One Breath: Freediving, Death, And The Quest To Shatter Human Limits.”
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Follow Per when he practises with SK Neptun Masters. Per used to swim, but has not practiced swimming actively in several years.
With English subtitles
https://youtu.be/kU5_Lqoj1gM
Swimmer’s Daily note: SK Neptun Masters train in Eriksdalsbadet in Stockholm, Sweden. I got to try their morning practice back in 2014, and highly recommend it.
About 100 people were knocked off an ocean rock platform they were standing on when a massive wave hit on Saturday. The event, which was captured on a GoPro by Instagram user Jakee T, occurred at the Figure Eight Pools in the Royal National Park in Sydney.
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Serbia: triumphant start in front of 11,000 fans
Water polo was lifted to a new level on Sunday: the last game of the opening day of the 32nd European Championships showed this sport from a different perspective as 11,000 fans filled the stands of the Kombank Arena while Serbia and Croatia produced a great game. This was the highest ever attendance in the history of the Europeans.
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