“During a long hot summer in inner city Dublin, a man looks back on his own youth. Things haven’t changed much.”
via The Irish Times, thanks John!
Becoming Men from Motherland on Vimeo.
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CC photo #632: Them shoes again
Proud teddy bears on top of the medal podium at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. This after the men’s 200 meter backstroke, result list here.
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Training Katie Ledecky for World Championships, by Bruce Gemmell, Part 1 (2013)
“Part 1 of 4: Bruce Gemmell, the head coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club, talks about training Katie Ledecky for her successful swims at the 2013 world championships. From the 2013 American Swim Coaches Association’s world clinic.”
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Visually impaired student trains for long distance swim
Katie Cuppie an Northern Arizona University freshman is training for what may seem like the impossible. Being visually impaired isn’t something that holds Cuppie back, she plans to swim the distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco Bay.
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Camilla Pedersen communicates with family after 19 days in coma
Read the good news (in Danish) on triathlon.dkEuropean Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen has taken a big step back to life when she Sunday was taken out of the medically induced coma she has been kept in since she on September 3rd crashed on her bike and suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. She has communicated with her family, but is still very groggy because of the medication. Danish national coach Michael Krüger says that the doctors have now started the recovery phase, which can vary from a few days to a few weeks, where after a long and hard rehabilitation period awaits.
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CC photo #631: Competition warm-up at BCN2013
Just a ‘miniature effect’ photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
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Speedo Advisors | How to utilise swimming as a full body workout by Matt Taylor
“How to utilise swimming as a full body workout. Swimming advice and tips from Speedo Advisor Matt Taylor.”
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Sylle did it! – Fly across the English Channel in 16h41m
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Woman swims 500 yards to toast 100th birthday
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Most people likely wouldn’t want to attempt a quarter-mile swim. Then again, Margaret K. Wachs isn’t most people.
On Friday, to celebrate her 100th birthday, Wachs swam 10 laps in the Woodruff Family YMCA pool. That’s 500 yards — the equivalent of five football fields, and more than a quarter mile.
“I feel pretty good,” Wachs said just before she eased herself into the pool at the Orange Avenue facility. “I never was a top swimmer, but as a child I used to swim in the lakes of Vermont where I grew up — on a farm in North Bedford.” […]
As with most people who celebrates a 100th birthday, Wachs has a few health challenges. She’s nearly blind from glaucoma and she’s had foot problems for decades.
But in the water, those shortcomings seem to dissolve, according to Matt Loprino, the aquatics director at the Woodruff YMCA.
“Swimming is a wonderful activity for her,” he said. “There’s no stress on her joints because they’re weightless in the water.”