Quote the Australian Swim Team on Facebook:
Geoff ‘Skippy’ Huegill’s second coming as an elite swimmer has ended today with the former world record holder and multiple Olympic and Commonwealth Games medalist announcing his retirement from competitive swimming.
Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte shares the foods and drinks he uses to fuel his training and race performance, including his favorite Friday night meal tradition since he was 8 years old. Via the17thman
The Berliner Bäder-Betriebe: Europa-Sportpark (SSE), venue of the annual FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany.
In the latest video offering from Effortless Swimming, Head Coach Brenton Ford explains that one of the main reasons swimmers have a bad training session, besides sickness and fatigue, is due to inflexibility. See PR Web.
French swimmer Laure Manaudou, the Olympic 400m freestyle champion at the 2004 Athens Games, will retire for a second time after next month’s European Championships, the Le Courrier Picard newspaper reported. Via the Bangkok Post
Nice and big, the advertisement for the FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup 2012 in Berlin, Germany, outside the Berliner Bäder-Betriebe: Europa-Sportpark (SSE).
FINA announces today that the national federations of China, Japan and Korea have expressed their intention to be involved in the bid process for the organisation of the 2019 FINA World Championships, and eventually for the 2021 edition, the specific cities to be confirmed later. Before 2019 and 2021, the 15th FINA World Championships will take place in Barcelona (ESP) from July 19-August 4, 2013, while the 16th and 17th edition will take place respectively in Kazan (RUS) in 2015 and Guadalajara (MEX) in 2017.
The video on NBC is restricted to users in the United States and U.S. Territories, but there is this short glimpse of the action on YouTube with a somewhat more seedy description: “Natalie Morales & Natalie Coughlin working out in tight spandex shorts.”
