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Category: Health

  • Keating and Sir Branson to swim the Irish sea for charity

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    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…

  • WADA launches CoachTrue

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    In order to meet the coaches’ learning needs and their demanding schedule, WADA launches CoachTrue, the computer-based, self-teaching anti-doping tool. It consists of a pre-test, evaluating the coach’s current knowledge, video tutorials, scenario-based activities, some fun test called ‘Who Wants to Play True’, post-test and certification. Read more here on fina.org.

  • Exercise may get you higher grades

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    Experience from University College South Denmark suggest that if exercise is an integral part of an education, fewer fail and more people get high marks. 40 nursing students got the opportunity to exercise 3 times a week during lunch hour, resulting in their overall module 1 grade point average jumping up to 6.51, compared to…

  • The Big Splash has launched

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    British Swimming announce today the launch of “the world’s largest celebration of swimming”, the Big Splash partnership between the BBC and British Swimming stretching 10 months, seeking to inspire the UK to get into the water. The first major event will be The Great Salford Swim on Sunday 15th May when thousands of swimmers including…

  • One in six British children cannot swim

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    A study of 1500 British children aged six to 15 reveals a generation turning its back on sport. One in six cannot swim, one in ten had not learned to ride a bicycle, and almost a quarter had never run 400 metros. British children are more than twice as likely to spend their free time…

  • FINA cancels Mexico OW race on health grounds

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    The FINA Executives have decided to cancel the Sumidero Canyon Event part of the FINA Open Water Swimming GP Series scheduled to be held on the 7 May 2011. The decision has been reached following the recommendation of the FINA Sports Medicine Committee on the Water Quality in order to ensure the Health and Safety…

  • Gary Hall Sr interviewing Ryan Lochte

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    It doesn’t get much more laid back than this. They talk about height and the myth that you need to be tall to be a swimmer, about Lochte’s knee surgery and about eating heathy, and other stuff.

  • Do we need age separated locker rooms now?

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    Surreal news here in the Boston Herald: Lorraine Jablecki often used the Sandwich High School swimming pool in the morning to soothe her aching back. Her doctor told her water aerobics would help her three bulging discs. And for the East Sandwich woman it did, allowing her to feel and function better throughout the day.…

  • See yourself swimming!

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    Nice campaign by Swimming Canada, to get people swimming “For Fun, For Life, For Glory!”. See www.swimming.ca/seeyourselfswimming