Public swimming can be quite difficult…and at times frustrating! It’s important to know the etiquette when arriving for your swim session, So James and Mark are here to talk you through a few ways you can make it more enjoyable and beneficial!
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Olympians and Paralympians Call on World Leaders to Ensure Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines | IOC
In a video produced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), athletes are calling on world leaders and decision-makers to ensure free and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. The call comes a few weeks before the start of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, which will take place from 4 to 20 February.
Launched today, the video features more than 20 Olympians and Paralympians from all corners of the world.
These include Olympic champions Federica Pellegrini (swimming, Italy) and Seung-min Ryu (table tennis, South Korea), three-time Olympic medallist Pau Gasol (basketball, Spain), two-time Olympic medallist Maja Martyna Włoszczowska (cycling, Poland), and Humphrey Kayange (rugby, Kenya), who are all members of the IOC Athletes’ Commission.
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Orthodox in Greece Swim for Cross on Epiphany | AP
Hundreds of faithful watched Thursday as dozens of swimmers rushed to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by a priest into the water in a ceremony marking Epiphany near the port of Piraeus outside Athens.
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Swim Faster: Swimming Drills, Swimming Technique, Swimming Tips | Inside With Brett Hawke
We’ve taken hundreds of the best clips from over 200+ Inside with Brett Hawke interviews and mashed them all together to make the first 24 hours non-stop swimming channel.
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How This Tennis Court in the Great Barrier Reef Is Helping End Plastic Waste | Today Show Australia
Aussie Olympic stars Ian Thorpe and Jess Fox have teamed up with Adidas to help end plastic waste as a tennis court made from recycled marine plastic and recycled polyester is launched on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Creating Training Programs for Juniors | Laurie Lawrence
Here is a simple way to create hundreds of programs for Junior swimmers concentrating on technique and teaching them the importance of working hard. The programs are all created around:
1. Warm up
2. Main set
3. Kick set
4. Pull
5. Cool downGet each one right then you can mix and match for countless programs
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Mother’s Warning After COVID-19 Stopped Kids Swimming | A Current Affair
A mother of five is warning other parents to check their pool gates ahead of the summer, after her daughter almost drowned. (Broadcast November 30, 2021)
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Steven Tigg on Duncan Scott’s Development, the 200 Free, and Peaty’s Swagger | Inside With Brett Hawke
Steven Tigg is the Head Coach at the National Swimming Academy at the University of Stirling (Scotland) where he coaches Olympic and World Champion Duncan Scott, among others.
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Swimming – Open Turns for All Strokes | U.S. Masters Swimming
Today we’re going to be talking about open turns. Open turns are the most common turns for swimmers, and the proper motions and timing take a lot of practice. Recreational swimmers default to open turns over flip turns. It is one of the most important skills to perfect if you compete in many different events outside of freestyle at the elite competitive level. Today, we go over how to do the perfect open turn.