The YMCA has launched a national TV campaign in partnership with the SBS Foundation to urge Australians that it’s never too early or too late to learn to swim. The campaign highlights the fact that swimming is a skill for all ages, genders and ethnicities and is vital in order to enjoy and stay safe in the water.
Dont take the risk. Learn to swim today.
www.ymcasydney.org/learntoswim
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Ian Thorpe is one of our most popular and successful sportsmen. During his spectacular career ‘Thorpie’ broke records and won a total of nine Olympic medals including five gold medals. Ian has opened up about his journey for the first time in a revealing autobiography ‘This Is Me’. See ninemsn
Anthony Ervin on the FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup 2012 – Berlin (GER) podium, after winning the men’s 100 freestyle in 46.71, Tommaso D’Orsogna second in 46.99 and Darian Townsend (RSA) third in 47.02, see result list here. He looks a bit underdressed, me thinks, in his denim jacket and towel and slippers, bib missing and everything; but I guess you can get away with that if you swim below 47 in the 100.
Former swimmer James Hickman gives the low down on the transition from an elite swimmer to the working world, as now Global Sports Marketing Manager at Speedo International Ltd. Sounds like elite swimming is no work at all, eh?
Kazan is set to host one of the largest sports events in history in 2015 when for the first time ever the FINA World Masters Championships will be held alongside the the main event.
More than 12,000 competitors aged 25 and above are expected for the first time to join over 2,000 elite athletes taking part in the FINA World Aquatics Championships in what will be a massive celebration of the sport in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan.
“For the first time we are going to combine the World Championships with the Masters World Championships,” said Cornel Marculescu, the executive director of FINA.
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Here is Cornel Marculescu, Executive Director of FINA, presenting the plan
So this is me (Rókur) making a fool of myself at a carnival-themed swim meet in Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands, back in 2009. Also the closest I’ve been to water-boarding myself, trying to swim backstroke with that mask on. Heðin L. Olsen took the photo. Happy Halloween!
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, held a swimming workshop in the Clomplexo de Alemao slum of Rio de Janeiro today. He was visiting to Rio de Janeiro to promote the 2016 Olympic Games. See NBC News
Also, he said at a press conference there that he would come out of retirement, if he got the chance to represent the USA in golf. And made a few comments about Lance Armstrong
USA’s Anthony Ervin after winning the men’s 100 freestyle at the FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup 2012 meet in Berlin, Germany. His time was 46.71, ahead of Australia’s Tommaso D’Orsogna in 46.99 and South Africa’s Darian Townsend in 47.02, see result list here.
