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Chloe Sutton Wins Fourth Gold to Wrap up 2010 Missouri Grand Prix Swim Meet
The 2010 Missouri Grand Prix Swim Meet wrapped up Monday morning with timed finals of the women's 1500m free and the men's 800m free. USA Swimming National Teamer and 2008 Olympian Chloe Sutton won the women's 1500m free in 16:56.98, ahead of Taylor O'Brien (17:09.91) and Gillian Ryan (17:30.12).

Chloe Sutton Wins Fourth Gold to Wrap up 2010 Missouri Grand Prix Swim Meet originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 19:12:14.

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Hydrofloors' Swimming Pools Belong In the X-Men's Danger Room [Swimming Pool] (Gizmodo)
# swimmingpool I don't know who has the pockets and the space to install Hydrofloors—mechanically operated tiles that sink into the ground slowly, revealing a swimming pool already full of water—but I want to meet them. Watch them in action: More »

2010 NAIA and NJCAA College Swimming Championships

The 2010 NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) men's and NCAA women's swimming and diving championship swim meets are among the many March Madness NCAA events. Don't forget about the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) and NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) college national championship swim meets.

March 2010 College National Championship Swim Meets:

2010 NAIA and NJCAA College Swimming Championships originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 00:01:56.

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Child grabbed near swimming pool (BBC News)
Police release an e-fit picture after a man grabs the arm of a child outside a swimming pool in Leicester.

2010 GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ SWIMMING PREVIEW:Mix of old, new hits pool (The Glendale News-Press)
GLENDALE — Area high school swimming has lost one star attraction, but regained another just as quickly.

When Zac Efron's swimming pool left his house flooded (New Kerala)
London, Feb 28 : Hollywood heartthrob Zac Efron woke up to a flooded house after his swimming pool overflowed due to torrential rain.

Pioneers hold home-pool edge for swimming and diving national championships (St. Lucie News Tribune)
FORT PIERCE — The swimmers and divers representing Indian River State College won’t have to travel far to defend their national championships.IRSC coach Frank Bradley’s teams host the National Junior College Athletic Association Swimming and Diving Championships, that begin Wednesday. A total of 17 teams will compete at the Ann Wilder Aquatic Complex in the four-day event that concludes Saturday ...

Olympians Natalie Coughlin, Aaron Peirsol, Rebecca Soni Swim at 2010 Austin Grand Prix Swim Meet
Natalie Coughlin of the United States, Women's 100m Backstroke Gold Medal at the National Aquatics Center on Day 4 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 12, 2008 in Beijing, China. Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty ImagesA star-studded group of US swimmers, including Olympic gold medalists Natalie Coughlin, Aaron Peirsol and Rebecca Soni, will headline the field at the 2010 Austin Grand Prix Swim Meet, March 4-6 2010. This will be Coughlin's first meet back in the pool since her medal record-breaking performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Photo of Natalie Coughlin by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images

Olympians Natalie Coughlin, Aaron Peirsol, Rebecca Soni Swim at 2010 Austin Grand Prix Swim Meet originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 at 00:44:49.

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The CADIZ Freedom Swim 2010 to Benefit the Vista Nova School in Capetown
Looking for a challenging open water swim for a good cause? Check the CADIZ Freedom Swim in South Africa on 2 May.Cold water, 7.5km of strong currents, and (while no one has ever been hurt) the possibility of a shark. The swim has both individual and relay divisions and follows English Channel Swimming rules.

The CADIZ Freedom Swim 2010 to Benefit the Vista Nova School in Capetown originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 00:47:10.

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Swim Better By Training The Muscles That Help You Breath
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown that swimmers can improve their swimming endurance and breathing capacity through targeted training of the respiratory muscles. Subjects who followed a resistance-breathing training program improved their respiratory muscle strength and their snorkel swimming time by 33 percent and underwater scuba swimming time by 66 percent when compared to baseline values.

Swim Better By Training The Muscles That Help You Breath originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 01:03:15.

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Carcass of 18 monkeys found in swimming pool (Press Trust of India)
Siliguri (WB), Mar 2 (PTI) The carcasses of at least 18 wild monkeys were found in a disused Army swimming pool at Bangdoba near here in Darjeeling district, police said.

The Swimmer's Catch-up Drill - Better Freestyle Swimming by Using a Drill to Improve Your Swimming Technique
To be a better swimmer, you need to improve your swim technique and you need to improve your swim fitness, two key elements of good swimming (you probably already realized they were needed!). Getting better at either could improve your swimming speed. Getting better at both could improve swim speed and efficiency. The catch-up drill is one of the many swimming drills that can be used to help a swimmer learn better freestyle swimming technique. Because it is a lot like regular swimming, once the catch-up drill is learned, the swimming drill can be used at almost any point in a swimming workout, at almost any swimming speed, at almost any level of swimming effort.

The Swimmer's Catch-up Drill - Better Freestyle Swimming by Using a Drill to Improve Your Swimming Technique originally appeared on About.com Swimming on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 01:10:14.

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Swimming pool floods Zac Efron's LA mansion! (New Kerala)
London, March 2 : Zac Efron had to mop up his Los Angeles mansion for an entire day after his swimming pool overflowed and flooded the house, it has emerged.


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