Swimming Pool Headlines
Reader Question: How Does The Olympic Timing System Know who Finished First?
What is the mechanism that tells the automatic timer which swimmer finished first? It appears to be some kind of pad that the swimmers have to touch, but I can’t...
Swimming Roundup: Phelps's epic eighth gold wraps up pool competition (People's Daily)
Beijing's bubble-shaped Water Cube will long be remembered as the birthplace of an epic story - Michael Phelps and eight Olympic gold medals. Nine days, 17 races. American superfish Phelps carefully measured every step and went through his Beijing adventure with flawless performance, placing eight gold medals under his name. By doing so, Phelps beat legendary Mark Spitz' seven-gold mark, and ...
USA Swimming Ends 2008 Olympic Competition At Water Cube With 31 Medals for US Swimmers
The United States swimmers wrapped up the final session of 2008 Olympic pool swimming Sunday at the National Aquatics Center with a gold medal and a world record in the...
Trade pool for one of these great swimming holes (Contra Costa Times)
Cool off on a warm summer day by lugging the ice chest to Shadow Cliffs in Pleasanton, hiking to the Garden of Eden in Felton or trying one of these other natural wonders.
US Men's Olympic Water Polo Team Downs Top Ranked Croatia 7-5
The US Olympic Team for Men's Water Polo garnered their biggest win thus far of these Olympic Games toppling the number one ranked team in the world in Croatia 7-5...
Ghana to enforce swimming pool regulations (Ghanaweb.com)
Accra, Aug. 15, GNA - The Ghana Tourist Board has put in place measures to enforce regulations to ensure the safety of people who patronize swimming pools at hotels and public places and to improve standards in the hospitality industry.
Olympic Swimmers Natalie Coughlin and Dara Torres - Not Too Shabby!
With the close of the 2008 Olympic pool swimming events, Michael Phelps moved into a whole new world of athletic achievement. Gold medals, total medals - and he should still...
USF Polytechnic Wants Swimming Pool (The Lakeland Ledger)
LAKELAND | The people in charge of the planned new USF campus would like an intercollegiate-quality pool to go along with their poly.USF Polytechnic's new campus will be built near the interchange of Interstate 4 and the Polk Parkway in eastern Lakeland, and university officials would like a swimming pool as part of the campus.
Secrets of Fast Swimming in the Beijing Olympic Swim Pool Revealed? Not so Secret!
My daughter and I were chuckling on the way home from morning practice, listening to a radio story on the Olympic swimming pool in Beijing. The angle of the story...
Tullos Pool swimming lessons to be relocated (Aberdeen City Council News)
Sessions to arrange the reallocation of swimming lessons for users of Tullos Pool, which is currently closed for health and safety reasons, are to take place next week. 2008/08/15 00:00:00
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