Grampa scoring a perfect ten here ! :-)
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Gary Hall Sr interviews Paul Asmuth and Jack Roach
Gary Hall Sr sits down with USA Swimming Open Water Coaches Paul Asmuth and Jack Roach, discussing the recent trends in open water swimming including safety and an increasing popularity.
I have to try one of those beach chair interviews one day, back here in the Faroes, only need someone with a gun to fend off polar bears, and maybe long trousers :-)
Via The Race Club
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The Shanghai 2011 Trailer (2)
First trailer here, now only 50 more days to go ! :-)
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LEN highlights of 2010
Video from the LEN Congress 2011. Warning, it is very pro-european :-)
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Keating and Sir Branson to swim the Irish sea for charity
Cancer Research UK’s ‘The Swim’ is a celebrity-led relay challenge where a group of eight swimmers and celebrities will team up with two members of the public to take on the 56-mile stretch between Wales and Ireland, including Ronan Keating and Sir Richard Branson. The gruelling stretch is almost three times the length of the English Channel, several degrees colder, deeper and more treacherous. With tides taken into account, the distance is more likely to be 80 miles, taking an estimated 40 hours in the water. Everyone who raises £100 by 15 July 2011 and can swim more than 3,000m will be entered into the ballot for the two public places on the team, and for this they hope to raise £1million to help fight cancer. Read more here on swimming.org, and visit www.the-swim.co.uk
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The Voice of Swimming
5th video in the “Swimmers†web series: “The Voice of Swimmingâ€:
They often go unnoticed, though their voices are (literally) ringing in your ears. They are the puppet-masters, the dictators of the pace, tone, and excitement of swim meets. And while you casually watch each race, they scramble behind the microphone, calculating splits, learning pronunciations, scanning facts and forecasting the race – all at the same time.
They are swim meet announcers.
Read more here on usaswimming.org
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Embarrassing moments in the pool
Australian swim stars admitting to their most embarrassing swimming moments, including Grant Hackett revealing that he ended with a tumble turn at the end of his still 1500 meter short course world record 14:10.10 from the Australian Short Course Championships in Perth 2001. Via the17thman.
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Szczecin 2011 is coming along nicely
The Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships will be the biggest sports event organised in Poland in 2011, costing about 1 million euro plus the brand new “Floating Arena” venue. Swedish website simma.nu/se visited the venue last weekend, posting photos and sounding very positive about the outlooks.
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The death of a swimming pool
When the Dagenham swimming pool in East London, England was to be demolished after 32 years in service, they chose a rather different end to its history. Relaunched as a BMX park, Nike 6.0 “The Pool” provides free access from May 16 to June 12, when the venue will be demolished. The pool was closed for swimming last month to make way for the new Becontree Heath Leisure Centre, including a 25 metre, 10 lane swimming pool, learner pool, four badminton courts, café 100 station fitness suite and two workout studios, due to open at the end of May. Via www.simma.nu/no
The Pool – The Full Story from Nike 6.0 on Vimeo.