Tomorrow Thursday May 12 at 6:20 PM Eastern Time (22:20 UTC), Cullen Jones and Josh Schneider will fight for the last spot on the US World Championship team, in a 50 meter freestyle swim-off at the Charlotte UltraSwim. With an official webcast transmitting live on Ustream, we are all ready, for instance on swimmersdaily.com/live. Read more here on wcnc.com.
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USA Today segment on Missy Franklin
At 16, swimmer Missy Franklin is rapidly rising through ranks, leading Michael Phelps and everyone else in this season’s Grand Prix standings. Read a lot more here on USA Today.
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Lee Memorial on drowning prevention
Informative video by the Lee Memorial Health System, advocating these layers of protection: Supervision (“water watchers”), pool gates, alarms and having an emergency plan. View More Health Matters video segments at leememorial.org/healthmatters/
Drowning Prevention from Lee Memorial Health System on Vimeo.
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Baby seal hitching the wrong ride
“Excuse me, but could you go any more slower?” :-)
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Exercise may get you higher grades
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 4.74 in 2009 and 3.80 in 2010. They say that it is too early to make any firm conclusion, but think that all programs should consider incorporating exercise and sports, as a win for the students but also to society that may have a better and healthier population. Via dsr.dk.
[Image courtesy of Mike Baird, CC BY 2.0]
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Highlights from the Fran Crippen SafeSwim Event
Todays edition of the Morning Swim Show featuring highlights from last weekend’s Fran Crippen SafeSwim event. Watch the full show in the video player below and visit SwimmingWorld.TV for more video interviews. Via SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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Tahiti – Ocean Voyage
Not so much about swimming, but that’s beside the point.
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Jones vs Schneider for last spot on US Shanghai team
Josh Schneider and Cullen Jones tied each other in the 50 freestyle last summer at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships and World Championships Trials, setting up the need for a swim-off now 9 months later at the Charlotte UltraSwim on Thursday May 12, 2011, to determine the last spot on the US World Championship team. Read more on speedendurance.blogspot.com and wcnc.com.
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The most beautiful swim photo I ever saw
Adelaide Now brings this story about some row in Australia over who should host the 2012 Australian Olympic Trials, the brand new State Aquatic Centre at Marion in South Adelaide, an upcoming venue in Brisbane, or “Australia’s premier swimming venue”, Sydney’s Olympic Park. I don’t know, but their picture of swimmer Whitney Ireland at the Marion Aquatic Centre is just amazing.
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