Cullen Jones an Gold Medalist Olympic Swimmer discusses his new deal with Speedo, ‘What Would Ryan Lochte Do’, and the Make A Splash foundation.
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Danes to keep momentum with big squads, Great Danes, Smart Track projects
So I wrote this piece for SwimmingWorld, yesterday, and fortunately got good help there to clean it up language-wise. Danish Swimming seems to be in very good hands.
At the 2013 Danish Aqua Clinic this weekend, the Danish National Team trio of sports director Mikkel von Seelen, head coach Nick Juba and national training center coach Shannon Rollason presented a bold new plan to keep the momentum going from a successful 2013 World Championships in Barcelona as the Danes focus on Rio 2016.
The plan going forward is that Denmark will be represented with record large squads at the Herning 2013 and Berlin 2014 European Championships, while working on strengthening the male and future aspects of Danish swimming with initiatives coined “The Great Danes” and “Smart Track,” respectively.
Read also this article on svoem.dk, where Nick Juba describes the Great Danes initiative
“I expect this to be an exciting new adventure for the Danish men who have lived in the shadows of our women’s team in recent years. It is a new focus and offers our best male swimmers the opportunity to step-up on the international stage. The Great Danes label needs to be synonymous with fast swimming!”
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MarTar Swim School to fight childhood obesity
See CBS Baltimore
September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. At the Mar Tar Swimming School in Elkridge, parents are looking out for their children’s health by allowing them to swim toward fitness.
“A swimming pool makes your body lighter no matter what, so the weight is usually not an issue,†Girch said.
In 2010, more than one-third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.
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Scottish Swimmers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Featuring Kathryn Johnstone, Robbie Renwick and Lewis Smith
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Swimming Australia launch GO Swim Month 2013
“October 2013 is being transformed into GO Swim Month, a national campaign aimed at promoting swimming through registered GO Swim centres.
A GO Swim Day is a great introduction to a local swim club or a chance for existing members to get together and celebrate everything they love about swimming and their club.
Head to www.goswim.org.au for more information on go swim days in your area or to register you club today!”
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Tens of thousands swim across Sun Moon Lake at annual event
Read Focus Taiwan
Tens of thousands of people joined an annual mass swimming event on Sunday across Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan’s largest fresh water lake.
Over 25,000 swimmers attempted the 3,000-meter swim across the lake in the central county of Nantou, including 237 disabled people and 1,088 foreign swimmers from 30 countries, organizers said.
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Ben McKenzie to star in ‘The Swimmer’, a film about extreme swimming
Read DeadlineSouthland‘s Ben McKenzie is set to star in The Swimmer, about an American extreme swimmer who sets out to conquer one of Norway’s wildest rivers and in doing so must confront his inner demons. The Swimmer is backed by the U.S.-Norway Film Development Project as well as the regional film funds of Norway and will also star Norwegian thesps Agnes Kittelsen and Kristoffer Joner.  Filming is set to begin in Norway in June 2014.
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Gerhard Zandberg hits out at Swimming South Africa
Read Eyewitness NewsSwimmer Gerhard Zandberg on Monday told Eyewitness News Sport that he is hoping his Swimming South Africa appeal hearing will be a catalyst for change in swimming.
Zandberg was served with a R5,000 fine and ordered to do community service after switching rooms at the recent World Championships without consent.
He lodged an appeal against the sanction on his return to South Africa.
Zandberg says his roommate Cameron van der Burgh was sick and that his plea to move went unanswered.
The swimmer eventually changed rooms, at his own expense, before being disciplined in Barcelona just hours before his semi-final race in the 50 metres backstroke.
Image courtesy of Marceldaponte, CC BY-SA 3.0