Funny video – The hecto-feet-first: Constant weight without fins, 100 feet down, feet first.
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3-time European junior champion Mirela Olczak suspended for doping
FINA has announced that 3-time European junior champion Mirela Olczak (POL) was tested positive to the substance Methylhexaneamine following a doping control test at the Grand Prix of Poland on November 12, 2011. The Disciplinary Panel of the Polish Swimming Federation has imposed a sanction of 6 months’ ineligibility on the athlete starting on November 12, 2011. Methylhexaneamine is commonly found in supplements as dimethylamylamine, which is not listed as a banned supplement, other swimmers to have drawn bans by this are Brazil’s Fabiola Molina and USA’s Sean Mahoney. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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Speedo Pace Club Poolside Chat – Natalie Coughlin & Jon Urbanchek
Get to know some of swimming’s best and brightest athletes and coaches in the Speedo Pace Club’s Poolside Chat series, here coach Urbanchek and 3-time Olympic gold medal winner Natalie Coughlin.
Coughlin and Urbanchek
Urbanchek
Coughlin
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On the Waterfront – a Professor Barrow’s Maths in Sports lecture
“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
