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Open Turns While Swimming Freestyle
Many swimmers don't get to practice their butterfly or breaststroke turns often enough. This particular drill can be incorporated into any standard freestyle set. It provides the benefits of the distance training, and allows the swimmers to practice their breaststroke...
Memorial Fund for Namesnik's Children
A memorial fund has been established in Eric Namesnik's name to benefit Austin and Madison. Contributions can be made to SNIK'S KIDS, C/O United Bank and Trust, 2723 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104...
What makes you get to the swimming pool for your workout?
There is a special moment when I first get in the water and push off the wall that I use to get myself to the swimming pool. It feels just like flying. The only sound is that of the bubbles...
A look into the diary of an English Channel Swimmer
Ned Denison started as the first of six 2005 Irish Channel solo aspirants to swim in July but failed to get to France, pulled after 8 hours. The seas were rough, the skies dark, my feeding technique a disaster and...
FINA 2005 Men's World Swimming Rankings
FINA has released the World Swimming Rankings for 2005. The swim rankings list the top 150 swimmers in each event. Some of the men swimmers' highlights are listed here....
Florence park might lose swimming pool (Florence Morning News)
FLORENCE - The pool at Lynches River County Park might soon be history.
Pugh completes the Five Ocean Swim
British swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh became the first person to complete a long-distance swim in all five oceans of the world on 27 January. Swimming in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans is a feat considered to...
Is Bill a Bully?
Bill Sweetenham has been cleard of charges that he bullied British swimmers. Some claim that 13 British swimmers have retired because of his tactics. Others think he is on the right track. (The Age/Duncan Mackay - The Independent/Nick Harris)...
Swimming Pools, France to Get a Revolutionary, Chlorine Free, Alternative Water Treatment for Pools & Spas (PR Web)
The launch of a new non-chlorine treatment in the UK was inevitable after it's successful use in more than 600,000 pools in the USA over the past 10 years. Now available in France and throughout Europe PristineBlue will be officially launched at the Spatex exhibition in February. [PRWEB Jan 20, 2006]
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