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Russian swimmer Natalia Lovtsova banned for doping

Mar 17, 2013

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in Doping

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Russian swimmer Natalia Lovtsova has been banned for two and a half years for doping, Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSADA announced on Saturday.

“The Russian Swimming Federation has banned Lovtsova for a violation of the anti-doping code for two and a half years from November 30, 2012,” the agency stated on its website.

Lovtsova was a member of Russia’s freestyle relay squad at last year’s London Olympics.

It was a second doping ban in the space of just two days for Russian swimmers.
Woohoo, a mention in the New Yorker (!)

Mar 17, 2013

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rokur

in Fun, Swimmer’s Daily, Wow

Awesome find by Bartal, from August 2012 …

Until he set that record, Sun had flown under the radar. He shouldnâ€™t haveâ€”his time from the meet in Australia was a sign heâ€™d dominate in London. But swimming news is hard to come by. I read about Sunâ€™s feat onÂ Swimmerâ€™s Daily, a blog run by two brothers on theÂ Faroe Islands. Only in Olympic years do most Americans find out whatâ€™s happening in the pool, and even then the news is broad and reductive.

Read more here on The New Yorker

(How we feel tonight, picture from back in the days when life itself was Instagram filtered)
CC photo #441: The Istanbul 2012 women’s 400 free medal podium

Mar 16, 2013

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

Medal winners in the women’s 400 meter freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Chloe Sutton (USA, silver), Melanie Costa Schmid (ESP, gold) and Lauren Boyle (NZL, bronze). See the result list here.
Inside look at the Harlem Shake done by the UGA Men’s Swim and Dive Team

Mar 16, 2013

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rokur

in Fun, Organization
Michael Phelps on retiring before 30

Mar 16, 2013

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rokur

in Gossip, History

Michael Phelps, the Olympic-medal winning swimmer, is trying out a different kind of stroke in the Golf Channel’s “The Haney Project” starting Monday night. But as he explains to WSJ’s Matt Futterman, golf is only one of his post-retirement hobbies.
Gautier and NÃ©ry’s film “NARCOSE” completed and available soon

Mar 16, 2013

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rokur

in Freediving

Via Dive Professionals

Julie Gautier and Guillaume NÃ©ry short film â€œNARCOSEâ€, the follow up to the smash hitÂ â€œFree Fallâ€, has been completed and will be available to the public before the summer 2013.
Sir David Attenborough talks about the plastic pollution

Mar 16, 2013

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rokur

in Nature

Via MerNetwork
Robotic swim buddy Swimoid snaps your stroke from below

Mar 16, 2013

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rokur

in Equipment, Technology

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NOT feeling your front crawl? Breaststroke a little off-kilter? Not to worry, a robotic swimming buddy can help you out.

SwimoidÂ is a robot that glides along the pool floor underneath you as you swim, monitoring your form and providing real-time feedback on a 50-centimetre LCD screen.

Two cameras, one built into the front and one at the back of the robot, capture images of your stroke from below. A poolside coach can view these images on the screen and draw instructional diagrams over them for the swimmer to see as they swim â€“ much like a football pundit does on television.
Swim team honoring boy killed by father

Mar 16, 2013

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in Organization, Safety, Wow

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An 11-year-old boy who was the victim of a senseless tragedy, will be honored by his swim team this weekend.

His swim team with take part in a 12-hour swimming marathon to honor the little boy’s life that was taken too soon. Eleven-year-old Stefan Zuniga was shot and killed by his father Carlos Zuniga last month in their Miami home. Carlos also shot his wife and sister, but they survived. Carlos then took his own life.

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