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  • Read This is Plymouth

    Teen swimming sensation Ruta Meilutyte is hitting the books this season in a bid to nail her GCSE exams.

    Meilutyte won four golds and two silver medals at the World Junior Championships, and a gold and silver and two world records at the senior World Championships. […]

    But her head coach, Jon Rudd, who is director of swimming at Plymouth College, said the talented swimmer had to focus on her exams this year.

    Rudd, also head coach of Plymouth Leander swimming club, made it clear that Meilutyte will also be working towards her ultimate goal – the defence of her gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

    However, Rudd said: “It is a relatively quiet year for us, though obviously there are big tournaments going on.

    “Ruta and (Great Britain swimmer) Ben Proud have their first big event next month when they go to Moscow for the FINA World Cup for two days.

    “In November, we have eight athletes from Leander – a third of the team – going to Brazil for the World School Games.

    “Ruta is one of them, as she qualifies for the team as she swims for an English school.

    “For her, though, it’s a fairly quiet year. Her primary focus this season is her GCSEs – she needs to get those right to continue in the sixth form to get her A-levels.

    Ruta Meilutyte 100 breast WR at BCN2013

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    Read SkyNews

    Former Olympic swimmer Giaan Rooney has announced she is 14 weeks pregnant.

    This will be the first child for the television presenter and husband Sam Levett.

    ‘We are absolutely, completely over the moon,’ Rooney told Confidential.

    ‘For me, I always knew it would happen, but I guess I really needed to be in the right time and right space. Sam has probably wanted to be a dad since he was about 15, and he’s absolutely beside himself.’

  • Read The Australian

    Eight Chinese policemen were sacked Monday after their naked swim at a tourist venue made waves online, state media said.

    The auxiliary police officers were dismissed for “causing a negative impact on the image of the police”, Xinhua news agency quoted the public security bureau of Lushan county in the central province of Henan as saying.

  • Just a photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. So I spot 9 big TV cameras on the balcony, one above and at least one below.

    Impressive camera array at BCN2013

  • SimningSee simma.nu/se and unt.se

    Swedish 2004 Olympian Cathrin Levander (Carlzon) was yesterday’s big hero in Uppsala, Sweden, when she while jogging in the cold winter night came by a crowd that was – to say the least – in distress. A baby carriage with a fastened two-year-old child on board had rolled down into the river, and they couldn’t find it. Cathrin jumped into the water and managed to find the carriage with her toes, a couple of meters below the water surface, where after she with from others got the cart and boy out of the water, to paramedics who immediately started resuscitation on the boy. Suffering from hypothermia, he was brought to the local hospital, together with his deeply shocked father. Later Wednesday night the boy was said to be stable, but still kept under observation in intensive care. Police is investigating the incident, suspecting no foul act.

     

  • triin-aljandRead Estonian Public Broadcasting

    Triin Aljand, named Estonia’s sportswoman of the year for both 2011 and 2012, has announced that she is quitting professional swimming.

    “The decision did not come easily. Considering that in the last few years I have had very many injuries, I arrived at an understanding that my body can no longer tolerate it [professional sport],” the 28-year-old said today in a press conference. […]

    Aljand, who’s brother [Martti] is also a professional swimmer, won five medals in freestyle and butterfly at European Championships between 2010 to 2012.

    She will now head to Turkey to begin a career in coaching.

  • camilla-pedersenSee Indsamling til Mille

    European champion Camilla Pedersen is still in a critical condition after her accident the 3rd of September and she is kept in a coma in Odense, where her family is by her side.

    As a professional athlete she is making her living from winning races and due to her accident, she will not be competing for a while.

    We know her personal economy will be a concern for her, when she returns to life, and therefore we are trying to gather donations to help her financially, so her main focus can be on health issues and rehabilitation.

    If you want to donate, please use following account no. in Handelsbanken.

    Registration: 7637
    Account: 7503867

    We are working on a better solution for international transfers.

  • Quote The Verge:

    The concept of a waterproof camera is nothing new — most camera manufacturers offer a variety of waterproof point-and-shoots, and Nikon even made mass-market, waterproof film cameras back in the ’60s and ’70s. However, Nikon’s now bringing something new to the waterproof market: the oddly-named Nikon 1 AW1 is a mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera based on 2011’s Nikon 1 J1, but it keeps shooting when submerged in the water and is also shockproof and freezeproof.

  • The FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) is a five-day competition held every 2 years, where the world comes to witness record-breaking feats and action-packed races with swimming stars from all continents.

    The 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) will be staged by Doha (QAT) from December 3-7, 2014.

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