Mayhem about to begin during the “Swim Day” organized by (local club) Havnar Svimjifelag and (federation) Svimjisamband Føroya on Saturday 16 November 2013, here in the Faroe Islands. Two teams and a lot of ping pong balls. When the whistle goes, the teams must try to blow the balls to the start line of the opposing team. The team that gets the most balls to the other wall, wins. Fun.
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When she’s not racing down a mountain at 85 mph, three-time Olympic skiing medalist Julia Mancuso loves to strip down from her snowsuit to her swimsuit. In the offseason, you’ll find the Squaw Valley, Calif., native hitting the beaches in Maui, where she lives part-time.
But don’t expect to find the 29-year-old uber-athlete working on her tan. Mancuso, who has already showed her dominance on land — she has more Olympic medals than any other female American Alpine skier — is taking on the sea, too.
Mancuso spent last summer diving headfirst into the sport of free diving.
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Boston Celtic forward Brandon Bass is learning to swim so he can spend more time with his family doing activities. He is looking forward to swimming with his son.
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The parents of a 10-year-old girl are facing charges in a Bloemfontein court for apparently forcing her to practise sport extensively, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The mother of the girl was warned that she could face up to 10 years in prison for the charges she faced, the newspaper reported.
The 38-year-old woman and her husband, 31, appeared in the Bloemfontein Regional Court on charges of attempted murder and child neglect on Monday. […]
Two-time Olympic medalist Mitch Ivey, of San Jose, has received a lifetime coaching ban two decades after a history of sexual misconduct with Bay Area female swimmers first became public.
Ivey, once a teammate of Mark Spitz at the famed Santa Clara Swim Club, has 30 days to appeal the decision that was made last week by USA Swimming’s national board of review. […]
“Not all swimmers are the same, just like all plumbing, septic and electric companies are not the same.”
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“The International Swimming Hall of Fame presented Adolph Kiefer with the Gold Medallion Award, ISHOF’s highest honor, during the United States Aquatic Sports Convention banquet on September 29, at the Orange County Hyatt Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. In a surprise, USA Swimming also presented Kiefer with a gold medal from the 1936 Olympic Games, to replace the one that had been stolen shortly after he returned from Berlin 71 years ago. The medal was specially cast from the original mold for the occasion by the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.”
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Michael Phelps said Saturday he’s back in the pool a couple of times a week, but he’s nowhere near ready for a return to competitive swimming.
Rumors about Phelps reversing his retirement picked up steam after he entered the drug-testing pool for international competition before the Nov. 6 deadline.
He was sighted recently at the Arena Grand Prix in Minneapolis, cheering on his roommate Conor Dwyer, who won a gold medal for the 4×200 freestyle relay at the 2012 Olympics.
But that doesn’t mean Phelps is in the shape that helped him win an all-time record 18 gold medals and 22 total medals in his Olympic career.
“[Dwyer] swims the [400-meter IM], that’s too long. I can’t do that. I literally don’t think if I jumped in the water right now, I could finish a 400.”
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