Fresh off her record-breaking swim from Cuba to Florida, long-distance swim legend Diana Nyad announces a 48-hour continuous “Swim for Relief†to take place in New York City’s Herald Square on Oct. 8 ‒ 10, 2013 in support of AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. >>> Learn more: NyadSwimforRelief.com
Nyad Swim for Relief from AmeriCares on Vimeo.
“A highlight clip from the Swimming & Diving Team at the University of Southern California, 2012-2013 season.”
USC Swimming & Diving 2013 from Craig Hung on Vimeo.
“Start and finish line for the TikiSwim. September 29, 2013”
Just a photo from the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Asked if the Cielo effect was tapped into after he won the gold in 2008, the athlete sees a ‘worsening.’ “In number of athletes, we’re going backward. If you take the number of federated from 10 years ago, I can’t say for certain, but if it increased I doubt it was significantly. And this for a sport in which we’ve been winning medals every year since 2008. The structural part only got worse. What got better was the [national team] group. Everyone grew together; it’s a great team. The technical part and the ability of the athletes evolved a lot, but the structure”
Image courtesy of Nicholas Bittencourt, CC BY-SA 2.0
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As Swimming Australia prepares to announce a new head coach for the national team, former team leader Leigh Nugent has emerged from a three-month exile declaring the team could not have gone forward with him.
“Check out the 2013-2014 intro video for the Florida swimming and diving teams!”
