Tag: Ryk Neethling
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Chad Le Clos can dominate freestyle – Ryk Neethling
Chad Le Clos has dominated the butterfly events since the London 2012 Olympic Games, but South African swimming legend Ryk Neethling believes the country’s golden boy can become a force in the 100m freestyle, too. The 23-year-old has dabbled with the 200m freestyle on a few occasions but demonstrated he has the speed to drop…
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Don’t rush greatness
In their first Olympics, in Barcelona in 1992, Penny Heyns came 33rd and 34th in her events. In his Olympic debut in Beijing in 2008, Cameron van der Burgh did not make it out of the semi-finals. Ryk Neethling took fifth in the 1500m freestyle in Atlanta and Sydney, and eighth in the 400m freestyle…
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Japanese swim team threatens SA – Ryk Neethling
We caught up with Olympic gold medalist, Ryk Neethling, he tells us why he thinks the Japanese swimming team should be on every professional swimmer’s radar. Neethling tells us that at the moment Chad le Clos is among the top two swimmers in the world, but he has to be careful of the Japanese swimmers…
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Ryk Neethling – “Chad le Clos best swimmer in the world”
Ryk Neethling believes “Chad le Clos is the best swimmer in the world at the moment”.
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Nedbank : Small Business Friday with Ryk Neetling
Ryk Neethling is a four-time Olympian but has now turned his skill into a business. We talk to Ryk about how and why he started Swimming Stars, a swim school as well as his management of recent Olympic gold medallists Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos. We focus on a sportsman turning his…
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“Ryk and I used drugs,” says ex-girlfriend Amanda Beard
South Africa’s Ryk Neethling today dismissed claims by his ex-girlfriend, American Amanda Beard, that they abused drugs during the time they were together, a relationship that began in 1999 and lasted until they both won Olympic gold at the Athens 2004 Summer Games. Read The Star
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Ryk Neethling in fight with former assistants over clients
Olympic gold medallist Ryk Neethling is seeking a court order to stop his former swimming instructors Lizette Botha and Uschi Dahlmann from “soliciting” his clients and competing with his swimming schools, allegedly by having gotten hands on his client database. Read The Star
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Ryk Neethling’s swimming academy robbed
Olympic gold medalist Ryk Neethling’s swimming academy in Garsfontein, Pretoria has been broken into and equipment to the value of R50,000 (6,300 USD) stolen. Read iolnews. “It is very sad to me. You try so hard to make a difference in your country. Then it is one step forward and two steps back,†Neethling told…
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The Muscular Princesses, a Hungarian Fairy Tale
Júlia Farkas is the woman behind this beautiful 2009 graduation film from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Via cartoonbrew.com. Why this is swimming relevant. Well, Neethling tweeted this, didn’t he. And by the way, I think that the girls were right to work out :-P Maybe now that Charlene is becoming…