Month: March 2014
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Magnussen in zone for world record at Games trials
Read globalpost New coach Jacco Verhaeren says a world 100-metre freestyle record is possible for James Magnussen in this week’s Australian Commonwealth Games swimming trials in Brisbane. Brazilian Cesar Cielo holds the world record at 46.91 seconds from the 2009 Rome world championships, but Dutchman Verhaeren says Magnussen is at a “fantastic level” ahead of…
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Why did swimming fall in the public eye?
Read The Roar I don’t think I’m showing my age too much, but surely you remember when swimming was Australia’s ‘it’ sport. I’m not just talking about our fascination every four years when the pool becomes our Olympic river of gold – or silver or bronze – but a time when everyone seemed to talk…
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Watch 15-Year-Old Michael Phelps Talk About Winning The Olympics
See digg A teenage Michael Phelps talks about his goal of winning Olympic gold medals like you talk about just finishing a 5K.
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GoPro-equipped kayaker Dane Jackson plummets down 60ft waterfall
Dane Jackson drops the 60ft La Tomata waterfall in central Veracruz, Mexico.
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Swimming instructor is committed to water safety
See The Reporter When Debbie Koenig was 4, she watched her younger sister crawl and fall in a pool. She could swim, so she jumped in and pulled her out. Her sister choked and threw up on her, and Debbie says she knew, even then, that teaching swimming and water safety would be a lifelong…
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Maurer (GER) and Ferry (NED) dominate Grand Prix race in Cancun
Press release from FINA FINA OPEN WATER SWIMMING GRAND PRIX 2014 A total 36 swimmers (14 women and 22 men) from 16 countries took the plunge in the third leg of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2014, organised in Cancun (MEX) on March 29. Powerful Angela Maurer from Germany took out the women’s…
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15 Danish swimmers qualified for Berlin 2014 Europeans
At the end of the Danish Open 2014 in Bellahøj tonight, the Danish swimming federation announced the 15 swimmers qualified for the LEN 2014 European Swimming Championships in Berlin. In another press release national coach Nick Juba commented: “I think that the trials have been efficient and successful, but also fairly predictable. Our ‘big hitters’…
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Mie Ø. Nielsen clocks two 50 back Nordic records in one day
At the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj tonight, Danish swimming prodigy Mie Ø. Nielsen shattered her own 28.51 Nordic record twice with first a prelim time of 28.28 in the 50 meter backstroke, and then a winning time of 27.96 in the final. Post by Mie Østergaard Nielsen.