Just a photo from the Danish Youth Championships back in 2008.
-
-
Warning over low number of British pupils who can swim
More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has warned.
Half of seven- to 11-year-olds in England, some 1.1 million children, cannot swim the length of a standard pool, research suggests.
Only 2% of schools surveyed delivered the government’s recommended 22 hours a year of swimming lessons.
See also story here on swimming.org/asa
-
Cameron van der Burgh Photoshoot
Check out the behind the scenes footage of the photoshoot we had with Cameron van der Burgh earlier this year. -
Cullen Jones gets kids swimming in New York
Read EnstarsWith the Rio Olympics still years away, Olympic medalist Cullen Jones is taking time out to give back through the sport he loves.
Jones made a stop in Harlem, NY, last week to promote USA Swimming Foundation’s Make A Splash initiative, as part of the group’s national tour. Make A Splash is the national swimming group’s anti-drowning program, which hopes to teach children safety techniques and basics of the sport; its motto is “Saving Lives, Building Champions.”
Image courtesy of WBUR Boston’s NPR News Station, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
-
SA coach Graham Hill accepts blame for lack of female swimmers
Read sport24South Africa’s national swimming coach, Graham Hill, says he is partly to blame for the country not having world class female swimmers.
This comes after top men’s performer, Cameron van der Burgh, claimed that the country’s female swimmers are not willing to sacrifice enough in order to reach the top.
Van der Burgh said women are reluctant to give up four, six or eight years of their lives – and that’s why they don’t reach the top.
“They’re not prepared to make sacrifices. That includes their physical condition (broad shoulders and muscles), because they don’t want to look like men,” he said.
-
Davis Tarwater inspires kids to sign up for swim team
Read wbir.comKids from around Knoxville got the chance to meet an Olympian and learn more about a summer swimming program.
Sign ups for Emerald Youth’s swim team’s seventh season started Tuesday. Gold medal winning swimmer Davis Tarwater spoke to the kids about his own swimming experiences and helped register the kids for the team.
Tarwater says he hopes he can help encourage kids to get involved with swimming.
“Knowing what the sport’s meant to me, to be able to turn around and give back and encourage kids that they can do it, hopefully they can see me and see that I’ve been able to go through the sport and achieve a high level of success,” he said.
Hear also Tarwater talking on “Sports Animal” about supporting Boston bombing victim Nicole Gross and family.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
-
Ex-swim coach accused of abuse appears in court
Read Boston GlobeWhen the young boy joined the Arlington Boys & Girls Club swim team in the late 1970s, his coach was Paul Collins, who also dated his family’s neighbor and would sometimes fill in as baby sitter.
On those occasions, when the boy went to sleep, Collins would sit at his bedside and “begin rubbing his back and chest,†according to allegations detailed in court documents released Monday. ÂCollins would then massage the boy below the waist and tell him he should not talk about it to anyone else.
It was, he told the boy, “our Âlittle secret.â€
-
Learn Anything in 20 Hours
A fun and thought-provoking TEDx Talk by Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
, via Lifehacker
-
Danish anti-doping agency receives major grant
Read Jyllands-Posten
The Culture Ministry is giving Anti Doping Denmark a nearly one million kroner grant to help it combat the growing use of steroids and growth hormones in the nation’s gyms and fitness centres. Steroid use is rampant in some centres, with Danes as young as 14 reportedly shooting themselves up in pursuit of the perfect body.
Image courtesy of Roberta F., CC SA 3.0
