Remember ButterflEYE, the goggles that measure your heart rate while swimming? Well, that award-winning product has developed into Instabeat, a more streamlined and waterproof head-up monitor that displays instant feedback of your heart rate in your swim goggles, while at the same time tracking other parameters like laps swum and breathing pattern. In the video below, creator Hind Hobeika presents her invention. You can help them get the product on the market by supporting their funding campaign on IndieGogo. See also instabeat.me
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Ryan Lochte interview makes anchor cry
Fox 29 via Philly.com
The “Good Day Philadelphia” hosts sat down with Olympic swimmer/major bro-wad Ryan Lochte, who is promoting his new E! reality show “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” Lochte is not known for his way with words, as evidenced by his short satellite sitdown with Jerrick and Jones, who cannot control themselves once the interview is over.
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Cameron van der Burgh visited his friend Alexander Dale Oen’s grave today
Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh has arrived in Norway, ready for the Bergen Swim Festival 2013 / Alexander Dale Oen Memorial 19 – 21 April 2013. Today he visited his friend Alexander Dale Oen’s grave, a lot of the speak is in Norwegian, with Cameron’s comments in English. See story and video on TV2.no
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Nanotechnology in Competitive Swimming
Learn about what nanotechnology has to do with swimming.
http://youtu.be/3lq_MAH1y10
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CC photo #474: Ryan Lochte on top of the Istanbul 2012 podium
USA’s Ryan Lochte 2012 World Champion in the men’s 200 meter individual medley at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey, in a new World Record time of 1:49.63. See the result list here.
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Punishment for Aussie relay team to be announced soon
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The likes of star swimmers James Magnussen and Eamon Sullivan are expected to learn their fate in the coming days following lengthy investigations by both Swimming Australia and the Australian Olympic Committee
It is understood penalties could include fines and “suspended sentences†following the fallout of their infamous Stilnox bonding night prior to the London Olympics.
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“Mizuno swimmers”, ad featuring Bousquet and Meynard
Mizuno swimmers from david mcdowall on Vimeo.
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Tyler McGill backwards flip turn
2012 Olympic Gold medalist Tyler McGill explains and demonstrates a turn drill that will help you improve your butterfly and breaststroke turn.
Tyler McGill backwards flip turn from Fitter & Faster Swim Tour on Vimeo.
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Rebecca Adlington hails new British Swimming head coach Bill Furniss as ‘natural born leader’
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Rebecca Adlington has described Bill Furniss as a ‘natural born leader’ as the man who guided her to four Olympic medals enjoys his first weeks as British head coach.
‘He has the knowledge, he is so experienced. Having been head coach at the 1996 Olympics he knows that role so well.
‘He commands respect from both coaches and swimmers. Bill has great communication skills – which is a two-way thing – and swimmers feel they can talk to him.
‘He’s a natural born leader – he’s fair, he doesn’t favour people. It’s really good.’