An attorney has filed a defamation lawsuit against Hamilton Southeastern School Corporation and a local YMCA director on behalf of former swimming coach Ken Stopkotte accused of stealing nearly $17,000 from the YMCA. Stopkotte resigned in August 2010 as head swimming coach at Fishers High School after admitting he falsified swimmers’ times. USA Swimming subsequently banned him for two years. Stopkotte is also known for appearing on 20/20 to say that sexual abuse was a problem in the sport of swimming.
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CC photo #400: Tórshavn 2013 FINA Swimming Official Schools course participants
There we are, 2 from Great Britain, 2 from Slovenia, Carol and Søren, and a whole lot of Faroese. Mission accomplished! :-)
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Michael Phelps Aiming For PGA Tour?
http://youtu.be/nuF4fYAZWkU
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Scottish Swimming Annual Report 2012
“This is the Annual Report 2012 of Scottish Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in Scotland. We represent clubs, swim schools, aquatic disciplines, athletes, coaches and thousands of talented and committed volunteers across the entire swimmer pathway from development and participation through to performance. Our vision is to ensure is to ensure that every single person in Scotland has access to quality swimming programmes, regardless of age or ability.” Via the17thman
http://youtu.be/kXVOg3njbrc
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Fast Swimming Techniques – Butterfly Body Position
In this first of five webisodes on how to swim fast butterfly, Gary Hall Sr discusses body position and how it correlates to a strong kick and a low driving breath. Featuring footage from the Race Club‘s “Life is Worth Swimming†their newest DVD Starring Bobby Savulich and George Bovell III.
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CC photo #399: FINA Swimming Officials School in Tórshavn, today
FINA Technical Swimming Committee Chairman Carol Zaleski (USA) and Honorary Secretary Søren Korbo (DEN) in charge of the first FINA Swimming Officials Schools course in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Saturday 2 February 2013. This site yet again a bit quiet, today and tomorrow, because of this :-)
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Ian Thorpe on getting back in the pool
Read interview in The Scotsman
“During competition you have to go into yourself, but you have to have the same kind of spatial awareness of the crowd, the arena, and how that can pull into your performance. The energy from the crowd or your competitors can contribute in a very positive way to your performance. It can also be detrimental. The best technical swimming will never be done in competition. The evolution of swimming happens in training.â€
A gold medal swim, then, isn’t necessarily someone’s best performance, just their fastest? “Sometimes you’ve been very successful and it wasn’t, technically, your best performance. I look back at some of my competitions and there are huge mistakes. You have to be good enough in training so that on a bad day in competition you’re still good enough to be able to perform.â€
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WetLab – A Waterlust film about students in water
“Our friends in the MPS program (mps.rsmas.miami.edu) at the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science bring cameras into the field to document a day in the life of a graduate student. Filmed entirely with GoPro Hero 2 and Hero 3 cameras. Underwater shots taken with the Blurfix lens by Snake River Prototyping. Spread the lust at www.waterlust.org”
http://youtu.be/w4joiyM7gbY
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Dolphins help young seal find its way home
Because, y’know, seal pups are generally clueless
Via Buzzfeed