“The Quincy YMCA is on its mark, ready and set to revive its swim program. Its new competitive swim team has been practicing since January. But this isn’t the first time a YMCA team has made a splash. KHQA’s Kristen Aguirre introduces you to the kids and coaches, and shows you why this group is about more than swimming.”
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Sun Yang in trouble for skipping training and breaking team rules
Read SwimNews
Sun Yang, China’s double Olympic swimming gold medallist and world record over 1500m freestyle, has been suspended from all commercial activities for breaching a “series of team rules”, according to Xinhua.
The Zhejiang College of Sports, to which Sun is affiliated, has also withheld his monthly allowance after the 21-year-old, who won the 400m and 1500m at the London 2012 Olympic Games, skipped more than 40 days of training, the agency reported.
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Swim Team In Super Slow Motion
“The UConn Swimming and Diving Team has a strong tradition of athletic and academic excellence. The team has a combined 5 NCAA All Americans and both the Men and Women are recognized as Scholar All-American Teams by the College Swimming Coaches Association. The footage in this video was captured at their competition against Seton Hall on January 27, 2013.” Via the17thman
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Bad weather in the Faroe Islands
So this was yesterday, the day when Zaleski and Korbo were supposed to leave for USA and Denmark respectively, and our British and Slovenian friends also. I think they got away.
Another, a bit more crazy video
And another, dig the waterfalls going up in the air :-)
And this one, from the Sandoy ferry stuck in the harbor
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Therese Alshammar is pregnant
Read Speed Endurance, Swedish World Champion Therese Alshammar, 35, has announced that she and her coach and partner Johan Wallberg are expecting. She will therefore not be swimming the Barcelona World Championships this summer, but still refuses to draw a line over her swimming career.
“One of my greatest dreams is to continue to try to compete and see if I can still improve. I still have a longing to be the fastest in the World”
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ESPN The Mag: Ryan Lochte’s Nirvana Tribute
Go behind the scenes with Olympian Ryan Lochte as he prepares for his shoot for the upcoming ESPN The Magazine music issue.
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CC photo #402: Club Meet here in Toftir, Faroe Islands
Our local club FLOT arranged its annual club meet today (5 February 2013). We had our two sons competing and one of the daughters coaching :-)
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Rebecca Adlington retires
Great Britain’s double Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington has retired, the 23-year-old, who won the 800m world title in 2011 and two Commonwealth Games gold medals in 2010, picked up two bronze medals at London 2012.
“I love swimming but as a competitive element and elite athlete I won’t compete any more,” she said.
Read for instance BBC Sport and watch Sky Sports
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Ryan Lochte and Olympic Swimmers on the Slopes
“Olympic medalists Ryan Lochte, Aaron Peirsol, Conor Dwyer, Ous Mellouli, and Arkady Vyatchanin take to the sloes of Breckenridge CO. Lochte’s and Arkady’s very first time on the frozen kind of water. Virtually Ous’ first time.”
– Next stop Sochi !! :-P