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  • Coach Salo explains why the ISL is such an important evolution in the sport!

  • Swimmer David McCagg won the 1978 World Championship in the 100-meter freestyle. He won two more golds at the 1979 Pan-Am Games.

    After his competitive career, he decided to step away from the pool. But when came back more than three decades later he knew he had to help change the sport.

    “I got back into swimming after 37 years of being out of it. I walked out onto the deck, and basically, they had the same type of resistance training,” said McCagg, founder and CEO of GMX7. “So what we came up with is a device that is like inventing the Apple iPhone back with the payphone.”

    He’s talking about the X-1 Pro. It’s a six-inch-long weighted device that’s hooked on a line (that stretches the length of the pool) and provides water-resistance while swimmers tow it behind themselves in the water. It doesn’t look like much, but it’s changing how world-class athletes train.

    See ABC Action News

  • Miz enlists the U.S Olympian to help to teach his daughter how to swim, thus winning his bet with Maryse.

  • Barceloneta is to have the happiest Christmas

    Barceloneta can put three wins under the Christmas tree as the Spanish team offered a brilliant performance against Brescia. Shutting out the Italians for more than 13 minutes, the 2014 champions won their third game with their great defending in the first place – so they will restart their Champions League campaign from the top spot in Group B. In the other games, title-holder Ferencvaros equalled Recco’s season scoring record of 19 goals from yesterday, while Dinamo surprised Jadran in the clash of the underdogs.

    • 1 Marco del Lungo BRESCIA
    • 8 Giacomo Cannella BRESCIA 4 Alberto Munarriz BARCELONETA
    • 1 Marco del Lungo BRESCIA 12 Niccolo Gitto BRESCIA
    • 8 Giacomo Cannella BRESCIA 6 Marc Larumbe BARCELONETA
    • Head coach Jesus Martin BARCELONETA
    • Bench Barceloneta
    • 1 Dani Lopez BARCELONETA
    • Head coach Alessandro Bovo BRESCIA
    • 1 Marco del Lungo BRESCIA 5 Maro Jokovic BRESCIA 5 Alexandre Bodegas BARCELONETA 7 Milan Aleksic BARCELONETA
    • 1 Dani Lopez BARCELONETA
    • 11 Edoardo di Somma BRESCIA 4 Alberto Munarriz BARCELONETA 9 Miguel del Toro BARCELONETA
    • 10 Giorgi Magdrakvelidze DINAMO 3 Uros Vucurovic JADRAN
    • Zurab Rurua Head Coach DINAMO
    • Team Dinamo Tbilisi
    • Petar Radanovic head coach JADRAN
    • 5 Andria Bitadze DINAMO 10 Dusan Banisevic JADRAN
    • 10 Dusan Banisevic JADRAN
    • 8 Jovan Saric DINAMO (right), Gela Tukvadze assistant coach DINAMO
    • Head coach Zsolt Varga FERENCVAROS
    • 6 Aleksandar Radovic HANNOVER 13 Kevin Goetz HANNOVER 12 Nicolas Constantin-Bicari FERENCVAROS
    • 9 Vendel Vigvari FERENCVAROS
    • 9 Vendel Vigvari FERENCVAROS
    • 8 Nikola Jaksic FERENCVAROS 13 Soma Vogel FERENCVAROS
    • 10 Denes Varga FERENCVAROS
    • 9 Ivan Nagaev HANNOVER 13 Kevin Goetze HANNOVER 10 Denes Varga FERENCVAROS

    Group B – Budapest (HUN)
    Round 3: Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO) v Jadran Herceg Novi (MNE) 11-8, Waspo 98 Hannover (GER) v FTC-Telekom Budapest (HUN) 6-19, AN Brescia (ITA) v Zodiac CNA Barceloneta (ESP) 6-8
    Standings: 1. Barceloneta 9, 2. Brescia 6, 3. Ferencvaros 6, 4. Dinamo 3, 5. Jadran 3, 6. Hannover 0

    Barceloneta spends the winter as the leader of Group B after bringing down Brescia in the battle of the last two unbeaten sides in Budapest. It was an even game in the first half, with some luck Brescia took the lead twice but Barceloneta hit back with a double in 89 seconds for 2-3. The Italians equalised for 3-3 but Alberto Munarriz gave back the lead for the Spaniards shortly before halftime.

    The landscape changed dramatically in the third as the Spanish defence got even tighter and they killed one man-down after the other. And it was a real defensive masterpiece as Brescia stood 1 for 8 in man-ups after three periods and Dani Lopez didn’t even have to save a single shot in man-down since his mates blocked the shots or forced errors from the Italian offence. At the other end, Munarriz was simply unstoppable, he netted two in a span of 52 seconds in the third for 3-6 and added his fourth in the last quarter for 3-7, a magnificent blast from action.

    To join the show, Lopez came up with two saves in back-to-back man-downs in the fourth – he finished with an amazing percentage of 68.8% (13 saves on 19 shots) – before Angelos Vlachopoulos broke Brescia’s long silence of 13:09 minutes with a smart action shot from the distance. But they couldn’t come closer as they missed their 10th 6 of 5 after a time-out and Alvaro Granados’ brilliant goal from the wing decided the outcome (4-8). Though the Italians pulled two back in the dying minutes, this time Barceloneta could overcome its nemesis – in the Champions League prelims they played 6 games since 2014, Brescia won 4 and two were tied. Now it was Barceloneta’s turn so they are the only team leaving Budapest with three wins after the first tournament.

    Ferencvaros bounced back from its second round defeat to Brescia and enjoyed a comfortable cruise over F8 host Hannover. Though the Germans had some fine players in their line-up, it was visible that, due to the home lockdown since September, they couldn’t get into shape to play three matches in as many days. Also, their young reserve goalie Kevin Gotze was unable to handle the Magyars’ skilled shooters who tricked him a couple of times. Hannover could score its first goal late in the second, after 13:05 minutes at 0-6, so the match was just as calm as the empty Duna Arena. While the title-holders equalled Recco’s scoring record from yesterday – also set against a German side Spandau –, one might also note Champions League rookie Vendel Vigvari’s 4 goals in the match: the 19 year-old was among the last youngsters raised and educated by the late Magyar legend Tibor Benedek.

    A bit surprisingly, Dinamo upended Jadran in the game of the underdogs. Jadran was perhaps mentally fresh from beating Hannover in the previous evening but the young players looked a bit tired since they had approximately 16 hours to recover. Still, they were in the game, led 3-4 and looked settled when a silly mistake pushed them into a downward spiral. After a turnover foul, they got the ball but the old instincts kicked in and a defender passed back towards the goalkeeper though the new rules allow taking the free throw wherever the ball is – Sandro Adeishvili, the centre whom the fault was called against, thanked the gift and finished the one-on one.

    From that point Jadran fell apart, lost the third 3-0 and could hit next after a drought of 10:35 minutes. Though in the fourth they managed to narrow the gap to 7-6 but a huge blast from Marco Jelaca right from the next possession put Dinamo back on track. A minute later it was 9-6 and there was no way back for the Montenegrins. This was the second win for Dinamo in the league, last season they beat Marseille while losing nine, now they look more composed and being ready for even more in springtime.

    Champions League is to return on 1-5 March 2021 with four rounds in both groups.

    More details:
    http://len.microplustiming.com/lenchampionsleague/

    Press release courtesy of LEN

    Photos courtesy of Deepbluemedia/Aniko Kovacs

  • Athletes and anti-doping groups have reacted with outrage after a four-year ban on Russia for state-sponsored doping offences was halved – and its athletes were told they could compete at next year’s Olympics and the 2022 World Cup wearing red shirts with the word Russia on them.

    The British Olympic gold medal cyclist Callum Skinner said the ruling, by the court of arbitration for sport, meant “the biggest doping scandal in history had gone unpunished”.

    The ruling was also greeted with astonishment by the US anti-doping agency head, Travis Tygart, who called it a “weak, watered-down outcome” for “robbing sport and clean athletes”. Tygart said: “To once again escape a meaningful consequence proportional to the crimes, much less a real ban, is a catastrophic blow to clean athletes, the integrity of sport, and the rule of law.”

    Under the ruling, official Russia teams will still be barred from next summer’s Olympics in Tokyo, as well as the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as a punishment for covering up a massive state-sponsored doping programme. Russia will also be unable to host world championship events for two years and its anthem and flag will be banned too.

    Russian athletes will be able to compete as neutrals in international competition – either as individuals and in national teams – so long as they are not banned for doping offences. They will also be allowed to wear red kits with the word Russia on it, providing “neutral athlete” appears as well. In effect this meant, said Skinner, that “Russia hasn’t been banned, they’ve been rebranded as Neutral Athletes from Russia”.

    Read The Guardian

  • For the final Propulsion Swimming Podcast of 2020 we are talking with German Superstar Marco Koch!!! Marco is a former world champion and world record holder in the 200m Breaststroke!

    Marco talks through with us all the tips he would give Breaststrokers out there, from not perfecting one stroke but finding a nice variety that works for you on any given day, to how to find your race pace!

    He discusses his ISL experience; missing out on the 200m SC WR, those controversial dolphin kicks, and swimming through a groin injury. We also look forward to Tokyo 2021 and how he’s in a much better place thanks to the year delay.

    This is the podcast you really don’t want to miss!!

  • A high school teenager from Hinsdale, with dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer, is dead.

    Kendall Pickering, 15, and her father Robert, 59, died in a car crash in North Carolina.

    They were visiting colleges when their car went off the road and hit a tree Tuesday night on Interstate 85 near Kannapolis, North Carolina.

    Kendall Pickering swam on the varsity swim team at Hinsdale Central and broke school records.

    See CBS Chicago

  • SWIMVICE | Pro Analysis Series – 200 Meter Breaststroke 2012 London Olympics Rebecca Soni // This video is dedicated to analyzing Rebecca Soni’s breaststroke technique in her 2012 London Olympic’s 200 meter breaststroke event.

  • Meet Ben. He is a 5-year-old boy who experienced an infection at 18 months leaving him with a spinal cord injury. His first pool visit was full of tears. His mother’s goal was for him to learn to swim and become as independent as possible with the physical limitations of a spinal cord injury. Due to his infection, he has no functional use of his legs but has almost full use of his arms to push his wheelchair. Aside from his physical impairments, Ben is a typical 5-year-old boy with a strong ability to learn. He LOVES to be a daredevil and the pool provides the perfect space for him to move!