Month: December 2011
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Swimming may improve bone resistance to impact
Taiwanese professor Huang Tsang-hai made rats swim for an hour a day, five days a week for eight weeks, and then measured and compared their bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) with a control group. The swimming rats lost both BMD and BMC, possibly because of weight loss, but when the femurs…
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Roland Schoeman tears forearm muscle, out for 4-6 weeks
Bad news on Roland Schoeman’s twitter account, he has somehow torn his pronator teres, putting him out of the water for 4-6 weeks. Via The Swimmers Circle. http://twitter.com/#!/Rolandschoeman/status/151221752830230528
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Stephanie Rice breaks up with Wallabies player Quade Cooper
After 12 months together the relationship between Stephanie Rice and Australian rugby union player Quade Cooper is now officially over. “Stephanie has officially split with Quade and will be focusing 100 per cent on her Olympic preparation,” Rice’s manager, Titus Day, told Confidential. Sources close to the couple say the split has been coming for…
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Thorpe back in love with swimming, aims for time not medals, beyond London
Mellow talk with Olympic legend Ian Thorpe here on The Australian, in Switzerland shortly after ‘disappointing’ at the Italian Open in Riccione. Lot’s of interesting details, like that he hasn’t read anything about himself since 2000-01, that he doesn’t compete against others but himself, that he (as Cotterell) thinks he’s left his comeback a bit…
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Peter Vanderkaay teaching kids in Detroit to swim
According to the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, six out of ten kids will never learn how to swim in the city of Detroit. But with the help of Olympic gold medalist Peter Vanderkaay and his brothers, a group is teaching as many kids as they can to be good swimmers. Read more here on wxyz.com.
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Michael Gross: There is too little money in swimming
(Sorry for my poor German-to-English translation here, but this is noteworthy, off swimsportsnews.de) … ) 20 years after his triple Olympic gold winning swimming career, Michael “The Albatross” Gross hardly ever follows swimming. ‘I’ve seen nothing from the last World Championships. It is pure coincidence if I watch any swimming.” Gross criticizes the lack of…
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13-foot python caught in South Florida swimming pool
A 13-foot Burmese python was captured in a private South Florida swimming pool today. They can reach up to 26 feet with a weight of up to 200 pounds, and live in the Everglades and Southern Glades, but since this was found so far from the Everglades, authorities believe this one was released by someone…
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Amp your workout with FIT Radio
FIT Radio is a web and mobile application that streams DJ-engineered music of all genres designed to amp your workout. A Pandora for gym rats with several channels to choose from, such as Top 40, Electronic and Dub Step. Free streaming app available for iOS and Android. Finally a way to get rid of that…