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
Learn about what nanotechnology has to do with swimming.
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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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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.
Mizuno swimmers from david mcdowall on Vimeo.
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 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.’
World Transplant Games 2013 Ambassador, Chad le Clos, shares a message with WTG2013 participants and looks forward to meeting them in Durban.
Read Swimming World Magazine and SwimNews, a pipe burst interrupted the South African National Championships in Port Elizabeth yesterday, making the water murky and green and forcing them to first cancel the second day of competition, before today changing the format to timed finals. One casualty of this is Cameron van der Burgh, who now will miss the 100 breaststroke final because of leaving for the Alexander Dale Oen Memorial in Norway, Swimming South Africa though ensuring everybody that “He will be considered for [Worlds] selection”
First photo of the SA trials swimming pool. Trials start tomorrow twitter.com/Rolandschoeman…
— Roland Schoeman (@Rolandschoeman) April 14, 2013
