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Olympic Swimmer Josh Davis stopped by Tuloso-Midway High School to work with local kids on their skills in the water and to give them some advise about reaching their goals.
It’s called the Mutual of Omaha Breakout Swim Clinic, and Corpus Christi was one of over 70 cities to take part in this unique learning opportunity to help inspire and motivate a new generation of swim stars. Athletes from 8 years old to 18 hit the water with Davis and even got to race against him!
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‘Marine Boy’ Park Tae-hwan is headed to Australia to get a start on training for the 2014 Asian Games.
His management announced that he’ll head to Brisbane on the 11th for an eight-week, intensive training session with coach Michael Bohl.
The goal will be to get back into top swimming shape, as he looks ahead to the 17th Asiad, opening in mid-September.
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In the record books, Georgia swimming and diving coach Jack Bauerle won his 500th and 501st career victories in a dual men’s and women’s meet against N.C. State at UGA’s Gabrielson Natatorium this past Saturday. But Bauerle actually was not in attendance. Neither was his top male swimmer.
An academic eligibility issue has left both Bauerle and sophomore Chase Kalisz under suspension. The pair was indefinitely sidelined by UGA until the athletic association’s compliance department can complete a review of events that took place after Kalisz’s academic eligibility came into question sometime after the fall semester ended last month.
Georgia is staying very tight-lipped about the situation, and so is Bauerle.
“I can’t say anything at this time,†Bauerle said on Sunday. “Hopefully things will get ironed out.â€
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After a memorable year in terms of performances, the FINA Family voted for the “Athletes of the Year 2013â€, having chosen 11 exceptional competitors in the six FINA disciplines. Organised by the “FINA Aquatics World Magazineâ€, this selection had a important participation of 674 voters, coming from the FINA National Federations, FINA Committees, media, partners and experts in Aquatic sports.
The results and achievements at the 15th FINA World Championships, held in Barcelona (ESP) from July 19 to August 4, 2013 largely dictated the outcome of the vote, with all the selected athletes leaving the Catalan capital with at least one gold medal. For this fourth consecutive edition of the “FINA Athletes of the Yearâ€, High Diving was included for the first time in the vote, after its inclusion in the programme of the FINA World Championships.
The list of the FINA Athletes of the Year 2013 is:
SWIMMING
Men: Ryan Lochte (USA)
2013 World champion in the 200m back, 200m IM and 4x200m free; 2013 World silver medallist in the 4x100m free. FINA Athlete of the Year in 2010 and 2011.Women: Katie Ledecky (USA)
2013 World champion in the 400m, 800m (in a WR time) and 1500m free (in a WR time), and 4x200m free.DIVING
Men: Chong He (CHN)
2013 World champion in individual and synchronised 3m springboard; 2013 World Series – second in the overall 3m springboard ranking.Women: Zi He (CHN)
2013 World champion in the 1m and 3m individual springboard; 2013 World Series – winner of the overall 3m springboard ranking.HIGH DIVING
Men: Orlando Duque (COL)
2013 World champion.Women: Cesilie Carlton (USA)
2013 World champion.WATER POLO
Men: Denes Varga (HUN)
2013 World champion, MVP in Barcelona; 2013 World League – silver.Women: Jennifer Pareja (ESP)
2013 World champion, MVP in Barcelona.SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING
Svetlana Romashina (RUS)
2013 World champion in solo free, solo technical, duet free and duet technical. FINA Athlete of the Year in 2011.OPEN WATER SWIMMING
Men: Thomas Lurz (GER)
2013 World champion in 25km and Team event; 2013 World silver medallist in 10km; 2013 World bronze medallist in 5km; 2013 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup – winner. FINA Athlete of the Year in 2011.Women: Poliana Okimoto (BRA)
2013 World champion in 10km; 2013 World silver medallist in 5km; 2013 World bronze medallist in Team event.
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Jack Strickland had a GoPro camera strapped to his chest when he and his friend Aaron Gallagher went diving for fish, A Current Affair reports.
Mr Gallagher was holding his breath as he chased a dog-tooth tuna 17 metres underwater, but when he eventually speared it the fish started to drag him deeper.
A fun (and geeky) episode out of DigitalRev’s Fake a Big Shot video series, in which Kai Man Wong has to replicate a classic dive photo that Chase Jarvis shot with a Hasselblad H3D worth $25,000. ” I gave him 8 hours … and a GoPro Hero3PLUS ($399) to get it done.” [chasejarvis.com]
And Kai didn’t even have a pool deep enough to dive in :-)
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The young swimmer recently said that his next goal is to break one of Michael Phelps’ world long course records and he is hoping to achieve this at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, or perhaps at the next World Championships that will be held in Kazan, Russia, in 2015.
“It is just about getting faster each year and the most important thing is that I keep on dominating the events that I dominate and extending on other events like the freestyle and the individual medley races,†he said after being crowned the best swimmer at the World Cup series in Beijing at the end of last year.
Graham Hill, the head coach of Swimming South Africa (SSA) said they will be concentrating on the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July, but it is going to be a very busy year for the swimming team.
The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships kicks the year off in Australia towards the end of this month.
“There is also the Youth Olympics for the younger swimmers and Commonwealth Games, the Fina World Cup series and the World Short Course Championships, where South Africa will be represented,†he said.
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Swimmers, starting off their weekend with a splash, braved cold winter waters Saturday morning to raise money and awareness for the city’s aquatic program.
“It’s not even freezing but, trust me, when you jump in over your head, it will take your breath away,†said Terri Webster Schrandt, the City of Sacramento’s recreation supervisor.
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“700 swimming enthusiasts braved icy waters to compete in an ice swimming competition ahead of Harbin’s annual Ice Festival.”
