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  • Photo by Doha Stadium Plus, CC BY 2.0
    Photo by Doha Stadium Plus, CC BY 2.0

    Read The Peninsula and see video on Today

    “He’s fine, he’s a battler,” James Erskine told Channel 9’s Today programme.

    “He’s in good spirits, you know, he’s got drips in, he’s got antibiotics and all that sort of thing so he’s not exactly going to swim in the Commonwealth Games tomorrow.”

    Erskine said he was not sure how long Thorpe, who attended the wedding of Britain’s Prince William in 2011 and might have been expected to catch up with the royal on the upcoming tour of Australia, would remain in hospital.

    “As of yesterday he’s not in intensive care. He’s a sick boy, he’s not going to get out and have a cup of coffee and go and meet Prince William,” he said of the 31-year-old.

    listen to ‘Ian Thorpe’s manager: swimmer faces another op on "serious" shoulder injury ’ on Audioboo

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  • In light of the tragic news of Ian Thorpe’s infection after shoulder surgery, host Jeff Commings speaks with USA Swimming team physician Dr. Scott Rodeo about treating shoulder injuries and lowering the risk of infection.

  • See video on TVNZ

    A record-breaking swim at the New Zealand Open Championships has seen the women’s 200-metre relay team qualify for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

    Emma Robinson, 19, knocked three and a half seconds off her personal best to propel her team past the notoriously tough qualification standards.

    Robinson’s fast finish will be an exciting opportunity for her to compete in an senior international event.

    “The only international experience I’ve had is at junior level in the Pan Pacific Games and Junior Commonwealth Games,” Robinson told ONE Sport today.

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  • See the research article on Hindawi

    A new study performed in the Faroe Islands suggests that it is as effective for cardio-vascular health to do 3-5 minutes of (effective) high-intensity swimming, as it is to swim for an hour at a more moderate pace.

    To test the hypothesis that high-intensity swim training improves cardiovascular health status in sedentary premenopausal women with mild hypertension, sixty-two women were randomized into high-intensity (; HIT), moderate-intensity (; MOD), and control groups (; CON). HIT performed 6–10 × 30 s all-out swimming interspersed by 2 min recovery and MOD swam continuously for 1 h at moderate intensity for a 15-week period completing in total and sessions, respectively. In CON, all measured variables were similar before and after the intervention period. Systolic BP decreased () by and  mmHg in HIT and MOD; respectively. Resting heart rate declined () by bpm both in HIT and MOD, fat mass decreased () by and  kg, respectively, while the blood lipid profile was unaltered. In HIT and MOD, performance improved () for a maximal 10 min swim (% and %), interval swimming (% and %), and Yo-Yo IE1 running performance (% and %). In conclusion, high-intensity intermittent swimming is an effective training strategy to improve cardiovascular health and physical performance in sedentary women with mild hypertension. Adaptations are similar with high- and moderate-intensity training, despite markedly less total time spent and distance covered in the high-intensity group.

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    Photos by SignalPAD

  • Save Our Seas Foundation’s director of conservation and National Geographic Magazine photographer, Thomas P. Peschak, has always been fascinated by the ocean. He has spent much of his career as a scientist and and photojournalist searching for a pristine marine wilderness. He discovered his “holy grail” of marine environments in a remote section of the Mozambique Channel when he joined a Save Our Seas Foundation Expedition to Bassas Da India and Europa attols. In this video he shares his experiences of some of the last perfect underwater ecosystems on the planet.

    A Tale of Two Atolls from Save Our Seas Foundation on Vimeo.

  • Tollcross, Glasgow. 10-15 April 2014, see swimming.org

    Event Landing Page • News • Schedule • Qualifiers

    Live streaming video by Ustream

  • See youcanplay.com.au

    You Can Play is a national Anti-Homophobia in Sport Initiative bought to you by Play by the Rules. Play by the Rules is a national program that promotes safe fair and inclusive sport. It is supported by multiple government and non-government partners including the Australian Sports Commission, the Australian Human Rights Commission, all state and territory departments of sport and recreation and equal opportunity commissions, the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association and the Office of Childrens Guardian (NSW).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX57IUyL43s

  • swim-cup-eindhovenThe 10th Swim Cup Eindhoven is about to start, 10th to 13th April 2014, with a spectacular field of participants including local swimmers vying to qualify for the Berlin 2014 European Championships, and swimmers from Sweden, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Brazil, Russia, Denmark, Faroe Islands, …

    Event Landing Page • Start list • Live Timing • Video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOf9me4CGcE&feature=share

  • Read Swimming World

    Demonstrating the class with which she’s typically carried herself within the sport of swimming, three-time Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Rice waited for the completion of the Australian National Championships before making her retirement public with an emotional YouTube video.

    Post by Australian Swim Team.