“Swimming is, I always believe the most technical, scientifically technical of all the common sports”. I like you already, Mr. Professor! :-)
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Megan Jendrick interview on TYR
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This is London 2012: Swimming
According to this video, freestyle is “practical and powerful”, backstroke “elegant and graceful”, breaststroke “efficient but dirty sounding” and butterfly “flying but sinking”. Hmm.
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The Longest Swim – Movie Trailer
Based on a true story, The Longest Swim is a drama depicting one man’s struggle to save his best friend from a diabetic seizure and the journey of friendship that led them to this pivotal moment. While vacationing at a Vermont lake house, Matt is awakened by loud piercing screams and groans coming from his best friends Ben’s bedroom, rushes to it and finds him experiencing a very dangerous diabetic seizure. Now it is up to Matt to save his friend’s life – with no phone, no hospital within 30 miles and the closes inhabited house the one directly across the lake, Matt’s only option is to swim.
Read more about this low budget feature film on Kickstarter, written by Indie writer Nate Ohl will be brought to life by Director Andrew Bernard. Each member of FLEX-o-Lite Productions has been affected in one way or another by diabetes, main goal to show audiences how important friendship is, while also showing how diabetes is a serious disease with serious complications.
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Anderson Cooper tests if cats can swim
Fluffy cat Nimbus forced to swim a full length in the Anderson pool. That’s it … I’m calling the police ! :-)
Via NewNowNext
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“Ryk and I used drugs,” says ex-girlfriend Amanda Beard
South Africa’s Ryk Neethling today dismissed claims by his ex-girlfriend, American Amanda Beard, that they abused drugs during the time they were together, a relationship that began in 1999 and lasted until they both won Olympic gold at the Athens 2004 Summer Games. Read The Star
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CC photo #103: Seppälä winner of the Rijeka 2008 women’s 100 IM
Finland’s Hanna-Maria Seppälä happy with her 59.24 women’s 100 meter individual medley win at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. It was a new European Championship record, and it was her birthday.
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Swim Cup Eindhoven 2012 starts tomorrow
The annual Swim Cup Eindhoven will be held in the Pieter van den Hoogenband swim stadium from tomorrow April 12th until Sunday April 15th 2012, featuring world class swimmers from the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Slovenia and Brazil, the likes of Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Sarah Sjöström, David Carry, Peter MankoÄ and Bruno Fratus. See startlist here from the event site and follow their channel on YouTube, I understand that this is quite an important test for the Swedes, via www.simma.nu/se
Update: Lot’s of videos from the Eindhoven Swim Cup on Zwemsiten!
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Hugues Duboscq and coach Paparradopoulos part ways
According to SwimNews, French breaststroke Olympic medallist Hugues Duboscq has finaly parted company with mentor and coach of 15 years, Christos Paparradoupolos, after dissapointing results at the French Olympic trials in Dunkirk last month. Duboscq telling L’Equiope:
“I hardly saw Christos in Dunkirk … after the races, he disappeared. Just like last year in Shanghai, where after the 100 breaststroke, I didn’t hear from him for three days. For years, after each of my performances, I was left to myself. The role of a coach is to be there no matter what. He must be present at the pool and afterwards. The swimmer who fails always turns to self-reflection – but he also needs to talk.”
