“Olympic Swimmer and Athena® Warrior Amanda Beard will welcome her second child into the world VERY soon! In this video, she dishes on what she’s been craving leading up to the birth of baby number two.”
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Universiade Faces #2: Vladimir Morozov
Kazan Universiade is launching its own TV. Get to know more about Universiade 2013 venues, sports competitions, schedule and sportsmen every day, for the next 3 months. This episode is devoted to swimmer Vladimir Morozov.
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Universiade Faces #1: Danila Izotov
Kazan Universiade is launching its own TV. Get to know more about Universiade 2013 venues, sports competitions, schedule and sportsmen every day, for the next 3 months. This episode is devoted to swimmer Danila Izotov.
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CC photo #521: Warm-up at Rijeka 2008
Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason discussing whatever during warm-up on the first day of the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia.
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Underwater Slow Motion – 2013 Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara
USA Swimming goes GoPro and slomo :-)
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Ye Shiwen fought off burnout and depression after drug slurs of London 2012
Read The IndependentLast summer, on the opening day of London’s Games, Ye produced a landmark swim, obliterating a four-year-old world record with a performance that defied belief. There were plenty who did not believe her achievement and innuendo was already her companion as she stepped onto the podium to collect gold for the 400m individual medley. […]
Last month she won three titles at her national championships, a first step towards her aim of repeating her London double – she also won her signature event, the 200m individual medley. At August’s World Championships in Barcelona, she will step warily into the global spotlight again because London bruised her.
“I was very depressed and angry after London,” says Ye, “but everything is fine now.” […]
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Swimmer swept over Yosemite waterfall
See CNNPark rangers will resume their search Monday for a teenage swimmer who was swept over a nearly 600-foot waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park over the weekend.
Aleh Kalman had been swimming about 150 feet from the edge of the Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon when he was caught up in the swift current of the Merced River, the National Park Service reported. The 19-year-old Sacramento resident had gone to the park with a church group, the park service said.
Image courtesy of Urban / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
