Anthony Ervin gets ready for USA Swimming’s Golden Goggle Awards in New York City with a little help from the world’s foremost unknown swimming vloggers, @EveandCandace
Anthony Ervin preps for The Golden Goggle Awards w/ Eve & Candace
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Swimmers develop faster on land and in the water
Griffith University professor Robyn Jorgensen conducted a 3-year study that found young children (under 5 years of age) who learn to swim at a young age achieve a wide range of skills earlier than those who do not. The study was based on data provided by online surveys completed by parents of 7,000 children under the age of 5 in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and then widened with further studied 180 children between the ages of 3-5, finding ‘significant differences between the swimming cohort and non-swimmers regardless of socio-economic background’.
Read more here on The Daily News of Open Water Swimming
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Man controls ‘Call Me Maybe’ with his heart beat
A programmer’s project for the Music Hack Day MIT 2012. Something for Speedo et al to put in their MP3 players ? :-)
Heart Beats for Music Hack Day MIT
Via Mashable
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The Chartres 2012 Provisory Entry List
In case you haven’t found it already, the Chartres 2012 Europan Short Course Swimming Championships provisory entry list can be found here on SwimRankings. See also chartres2012.com and len.eu, the competition begins on Thursday morning 22 november at 09:00 local time, and ends on Sunday 25 november.
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Muffat and Agnel set textile marks in the 200 free
On the last day of the French nationals, the two champions of Nice both threathened the world records in the 200 meter short course freestyle, Camille Muffat with a 1:51.65 and 2nd best ever (first inside 1:52 in textile) and Yannick Agnel with a 1:39.70 and also 2nd best ever (first inside 1:40 in textile). Read SwimNews and see full results from Angers here.
Championnats de natation 2012 à Angers
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CC photo #323: The Berlin 2012 men’s 50 free podium
The men’s 50 free podium at the FINA / Arena 2012 Swimming World Cup 2012 meet in Berlin, Germany. Anthony Ervin 1st in 20.85, George Bovell (TRI) 2nd in 20.97 and Matthew Targett (AUS) 3rd in 20.12, see result list here.
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Julia Carta gives swimming hair and make-up advice for Speedo Sculpture
How to look your best in and around the swimming pool with celebrity hair and make-up artist Julia Carta and Speedo Sculpture.
Julia Carta gives swimming hair and make-up advice for Speedo Sculpture
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FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2012 Singapore Highlights
Including short interviews with Jessica Hardy and Christian Sprenger
FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2012 Highlights
See also this news segment
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Swim drills for the correct body alignment
Swim drills from Ben Titley and Liam Tancock to get the correct body alignment.
Swim drills for the correct body alignment