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  • Want to improve your swim technique? Learn from world champion swimmers, Ryan Lochte, Cullen Jones, Tyler Clary, Jessica Hardy, Natalie Coughlin and Nathan Adrian.

  • Presented by Arena, the exclusive outfitter of the USA Swimming National Team, “Being Frank” is a web series featuring the insights of USA Swimming National Team Director Frank Busch.

  • Courtesy of Swimming Australia

  • From earlier this month

    Steven Robles was an hour into his regular weekend swim off some of Southern California’s most popular beaches when he came face-to-face with a great white shark.

    The 7-foot-long juvenile had been trying to free itself from a fisherman’s hook for about half an hour.

    It came up to the surface, it looked at me and attacked me right on the side of my chest,” Robles told KABC-TV. “That all happened within two seconds, I saw the eyes of the shark as I was seeing it swim toward me. It lunged at my chest, and it locked into my chest.

    See for instance Mashable

  • The video is one thing, but gee, the sound of those things is even more awesome !

    Two kayakers paddling in the ocean in Argentina had a whale of a time this week after they found themselves being raised out of the water on top of one of the creatures.

    Luckily they managed to capture the moment on video, with some startling close up footage of the whale.

    They posted the footage on YouTube with a description below that translates as: “An incredible evening, lots of sun, kayaking and whale watching. As we watched from the top of the kayak, one of the whales turned and came towards our direction and we lifted the boat twice!”

    See The Telegraph

  • Australian Commonwealth Games swimmers have reacted strongly to repeated questions about the team’s London Olympic Games campaign, which was notable for disappointing performances in the pool and bad behaviour out of it.

    However, senior squad member and 100-metre breaststroke world champion Christian Sprenger thinks while it was “bizarre that they still bring that up” there was only one way for the team to consign the episode to history.

    “People can very quickly forget about bad situations that happen, you see it in a lot of sports such as rugby and soccer and yeah if we bring home hundreds of gold medals this week the Australian public will see a new swimming Australian team,” Sprenger said.
    “… That’s the only way we’re going to get away from it, by really stamping our authority over these Commonwealth Games.”

    Read The Sydney Morning Herald

  • This canoe-kayak hybrid has a transparent polymer hull that offers paddlers an underwater vista unavailable in conventional boats. Seating two people, the sturdy hull is made of the same durable material found in the cockpit canopies of supersonic fighter jets.

    See Hammacher Schlemmer

  • 9. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time

    Michael Phelps is one of the greatest athletic icons in the world. Phelps also holds the all-time record for Olympic medals and credits much of this success to his ADHD. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles.

    Read health24

    Photo by Vironevaeh

  • Lauren Boyle has yet to hear whether her father will arrive in Glasgow in time to see her opening race.

    Allan Boyle was on Virgin Atlantic flight VS251 from Shanghai to London which was forced to make an emergency landing in Irkutsk, Russia, after the Airbus A346 developed “a technical issue”.

    He and his partner, Tracey Berkahn, are now among 283 people stuck in Siberia – waiting on an alternative flight to be arranged to Heathrow Airport before heading to watch his daughter compete in the women’s 200 metres freestyle heats and final on Thursday.

    Read stuff.co.nz