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  • Read The Independent

    Diets can be of paramount importance to a sportsman – Novak Djokovic’s grand slam success is based on a strict gluten free one, WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley defeated Manny Pacquiao on a trusted vegan one, and Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics…he powered to three gold medals fuelled by Chicken McNuggets, a total he now estimates to have reached 1,000 during his 10 days in the Chinese capital.

    http://youtu.be/aTSntZwP5eA

    The Jamaican revealed in his soon-to-be released autobiography, Faster than Lightning, his passion started with a box of 20, yes 20, of the golden chicken treats, but with his training going into overdrive, he soon needed far more, up to 100 a day, and even turned to an apple pie to take the edge off.

    “At first I ate a box of 20 for lunch, then another for dinner,” he wrote. “The next day I had two boxes for breakfast, one for lunch and then another couple in the evening. I even grabbed some fries and an apple pie to go with it.”

    The sprinter, who lit up the games, breaking three world records, claimed he only began eating the nuggets because he simply found Chinese food “odd”.

    Usain Bolt

    Image courtesy of Andre Kiwitz, CC BY 2.0

    And of course, cue DJ Steve Porter’s awesome “Faster Than Lightning” remix

  • Correction: Efimova’s time was 28.71, as written in the SW piece below. Not 28.17

    Read SwimmingWorld and see the result list here.

    After a particularly rough FINA World Cup circuit during which she’s drawn disqualifications on a routine basis, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova finally had her major breakthrough as she clipped the world record in the sprint breaststroke event. Efimova raced her way to a 28.71 in the event to take down Jessica Hardy’s 2009 effort of 28.80 posted at the Berlin stop of the FINA World Cup circuit that year.

    Post by FINA.

  • Read SwimmingWorld

    Swimmers in attendance at the Tokyo stop of the FINA World Cup just had the experience of a lifetime as a 5.5 earthquake hit the city just a bit ago.

     

     

  • Read The Australian

    Even an iron cage doesn’t make swimming with great white sharks off South Africa a relaxing experience.

    Toasters kill 400 people each year. Sharks kill between five and 10.

    Why then does a shark cage resemble the internal mechanics of a toaster? Is it a cruel joke to make me even more nervous than I already am?

    It’s a cool late September morning in Kleinbaai, South Africa, a small coastal village about a two-hour drive from Cape Town.

  • Swimmers compete in a 10-mile swim down the Tennessee River Gorge.

    Swim the Suck 2013 from Chad Wilson on Vimeo.

  • Monitoring System for Swimming Technique Features, see naulu.net

  • libby-trickettRead Herald Sun

    Champion swimmer Libby Trickett dealt with bouts of depression early this year before becoming a success on this year’s Dancing With The Stars.

    The Olympic champion, who has now retired for a second time after requiring a wrist reconstruction, said she was more prepared to deal with depression this time around.

    “I think I was much more prepared, and more aware of the triggers and things I had to be mindful of,” she said.

    Image courtesy of Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0

  • At the FINA World Cup leg in Tokyo today, Australia’s mixed 4×50 meter medley relay broke their own world record yet again, clocking 1:37.84 where their record from Singapore was 1:38.02. Split times were Robert Hurley 23.46, Christian Sprenger Christian Sprenger (25.91), Alicia Coutts (25.19) and Cate Campbell (23.28). See the result list here.

  • Swim meet in Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands, 9 November 2013, for our youngest age groups. We time but don’t really record. Seoul 1988 silver medalist Benny Nielsen once swam a demo swim here, back when the starting blocks were in the shallow end. Must have been a cramped experience, swimming in that narrow middle lane.

    FS stevna 2013