How to mix up your swim fitness workout with Karen Pickering.
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CC photo #653: Yannick Agnel after winning the BCN2013 men’s 200 free
French swimmer Yannick Agnel mighty happy after winning the men’s 200 meter freestyle final at the FINA 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. See the result list here.
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FINA and European Broadcasting Union extend partnership until 2017
FINA and the European Broadcasting Union today announced the extension of their partnership for the distribution of the European media rights until 2017, including the 2015 and 2017 FINA World Championships as well as the 2014 and 1016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25M). The EBU will be the Host Broadcaster for the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan (RUS). See fina.org -
Charlotte swim program helps minorities get into pool
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Jahari Dunn doesn’t seem to be doing anything that miraculous when she swims with the Queen City Dolphins.
But the 17-year-old Cato Middle College High School student knows that what she does with her team is remarkable.
“I saw the water and i jumped in and i didn’t know how to swim. My mom jumped in and saved me. And she didn’t know how to swim either,†said Dunn.
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69-year-old swimming coach found guilty of assault after grabbing child by the arm
Read for instance Bournemouth EchoA swimming coach who taught three generations of Dorset children is devastated after a ‘black cloud’ has been left hanging over her 50-year career.
Janet Hewitt, 69, was found guilty of assault by beating last week after Weymouth Magistrates’ Court heard that she grabbed a child by the arm after a swimming gala.
But the grandmother, of Garfield Avenue, Dorchester, said she has been ‘overwhelmed’ by support from pupils and parents past and present.
She said: “This might have ruined my life. For 51 years this sport has been my life, and now, to be accused of something like this has just devastated me.â€
Mrs Hewitt said she also fears what the ruling will mean for other coaches and people who volunteer with youngsters.
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Soul to Soul with Diana Nyad: “I’m an Atheist Who’s in Awe”
“Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad says she considers herself a spiritual person and an atheist. Watch her eye-opening round of Soul to Soul.”
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CC photo #652: Paul and Pál at the Istanbul 2012 World Champs
Germany’s Paul Biedermann and Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen after the 5th heat of the men’s 400 meter freestyle prelims at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. They both qualified for the final, where Paul became World Champion and Pál was 5th. See the result list here.
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What Diana Nyad Did the Morning After Her Historic Swim
At age 64, she had just become the first person to swim 110 miles from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. So what did Diana Nyad do the morning after making history?
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Efimova, Le Clos, Morozov shine at Swimming World Cup in Moscow
Russian swimmers Yulia Efimova and Vladimir Morozov please the home crowd as Olympic champion Chad le Clos also wins big at the Moscow leg of the short-course Swimming World Cup.