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August 4, 2006 Swimming Pool News


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Summer days are cool at the swimming pool (The Palm Beach Post)
The smell of chlorine. Green streaks in the hair of your blond friends. The jingle of your pool tag safety-pinned to your swimsuit. Slipping, shoving, laughing at pool's edge.

Podcasts From the 2006 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships
USA Swimming is pleased to provide podcasts with behind-the-scenes information from the 2006 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships. USA Swimming and Speedo will produce and upload a youth-themed podcast featuring...

Man Pulled From Swimming Pool In Brockton (CBS 4 Boston)
BREAKING NEWS: A man was pulled from a swimming pool in Brockton Tuesday afternoon. We're told neighbors performed CPR until paramedics arrived. More Massachusetts News

The World Anti-Doping Code Prohibited List of Banned Substances in Sport
With the release of the Floyd Landis Tour de France "A" sample result drug test (a bit premature as there should be no judgement until the "B" sample test result...

Hansen Breaks World Record on First Night of National Champs
The word fast barely begins to describe the swimming on the first night of the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships. One world and one American record fell Tuesday and the...

The 2006 FINA World Masters Championships at Stanford
The 2006 XI FINA World Masters Championships will begin Friday, August 4, 2006 with swimming and water polo and conclude Thursday, August 17, 2006 with Synchronized Swimming. Opening Ceremonies will...

What is the Least Amount of Training Needed to Finish Your First Triathlon?
Ruth Kazez thinks it is about 5 hours a week, and she tells you how to plan your week to get the least amount of training accomplished to help you...

Swimming season could be extended to September, pool manager says (Marshall Democrat-News)
The Marshall Aquatics Center is having such a good year that it might extend the season as far as the end of September, according to Manager Lori Godsey.

Thimphu swimming pool to open in July 2007 (Kuensel)
1 August 2006- The only swimming pool in the capital has remained dry as a ditch for the past two years and it is most likely to stay that way for another 10 months.

Chlorine sales for swimming pools have risen with the heat (Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier)
By ANDREW WIND, Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO --- As the mercury has risen in the past few weeks, so has the demand for chlorine and other chemicals needed by owners of backyard pools.

NEW SWIMMING POOL FOR IOWA PARK (KFDX Newscenter 3)
With temperatures back in the triple digits, plenty of Texomans are cooling off at community swimming pools, except in Iowa Park, but that will soon change. City officials have announced plans to build a new community pool in downtown, near the recreation activities center.

Yvonne Zanos: Did this swimming pool contractor soak customer? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Q: I answered an ad and signed a contract for a $9,600 swimming pool. The contractor came to my house and I gave $4,500 with the understanding that he had to talk to my children first. He said if I didn't put money down right then, he couldn't guarantee the pool I wanted would still be available.

Safety and Ethics of Hypoxic Altitude Systems for Training Athletes - Add it to the Banned List?
Not too many swimming pools are built inside of an altitude tent, but some swimmers do train at altitude and/or recover (as in sleep) at altitude or use altitude tents....

Coughlin Wins 200 Free and Phelps Wins Two More at 2006 ConocoPhillips National Championships Day Two
Day 2 of the 2006 USA Swimming ConocoPhillips National Swimming Championships saw Michael Phelps add two more national titles to his previous total of 28, winning in the finals of...


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