February 2012
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2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships Promo:... →
Only 20 days to go… Network Ten is pleased to announce that the 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships will be broadcast live and exclusively on TEN and ONE from Thursday, March 15… Check out one of the promos that will run leading up to the 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships
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Maryland swim team retroactively loses county... →
A Maryland girls swimming team has had its county championship title retroactively stripped for one of the more bizarre retroactive punishments to come down in recent years: It was deemed that improper shaving had occurred.
By Cameron Smith
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No pain, no gain.
Anonymous asked: So , i havent raced fly for a long time and i have been working so my fifty would be down but it keeps going back up. One practice i will be able to swim a 33 and the next practice i saw a 39 -____-. I really want to get a 1:06 but i am not really sure i can make it what should i do ?
swim4ever1d asked: Any advice on how to strategize for 2 fly for the first time? Thankss x.
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Anonymous asked: Do you have an exercises to be able to go longer without breathing for strokes like butterfly/free(basically the only things you need to worry about breathing on)?
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spankbytchez asked: i'm really upset, we swam a 400 IM for time at practice today, and i was TWO seconds off my regional/divisionals cut and i age up in the summer :(((( but on the bright side i'm less than 10 seconds away from the senior cut.
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20 Questions with Eric Shanteau
What a difference four years makes: At this time pre-2008 Olympic Trials, Eric Shanteau was fighting to make the Olympic team, a fight he would win. And then he would fight cancer, another fight in which he came out victorious. Now, the Auburn alum, who trained at Texas for the 2008 run-up, is training with USC’s post-grad program. He lost his amazing father, Rick, to cancer, and has gotten...
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Matt and Annie: Swimming's Love Story
Last year at the Indianapolis Grand Prix, I pulled 2008 Olympic gold medalist Matt Grevers aside for a quick interview. I wanted to ask him a very important question. I wanted the inside scoop, the insider information. Being Matt’s personal friend since we were teammates at Northwestern, I felt entitled to this type of information. “So,” I said, acting very serious. “When are you going to pop...
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Tae-Hwan's Future As Professor Park
Australia/Korea: South Korean Olympic 400m free champion Park Tae-Hwan graduated from university today and is now to move up to graduate studies aimed at a future as an action-packed academic, his goal to become a professor of physical education. The day after clocking a national record of 14:47 in the 1500m free at the NSW titles in Sydney, Park celebrated another great result, graduation...
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Phelps using hyperbaric chamber to aid recovery
NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Phelps is the latest athlete to use a hyperbaric chamber to aid his recovery from training.
The 16-time Olympic medalist said Wednesday he had been sleeping “at 8,000 feet every night” for almost a year. The 26-year-old swimmer noticed he bounced back from workouts better when he trained at altitude, so he’s trying a device that simulates that.
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How do you solve a problem like Missy Franklin? →
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Apparently Missy loves The Sound of Music! And pasta, but that’s a given.
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Olympic hopeful Libby Trickett shows she's no... →
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Olympic swimmer proposes to girlfriend on medal... →
When Matt Grevers jumped into the pool prior to this last weekend’s 100-meter backstroke at the Missouri Grand Prix, he had diamond on his mind, not gold.
The two-time gold medalist had concocted an elaborate plan to propose to his longtime girlfriend, fellow national-team swimmer Annie Chandler, atop the medal stand. All he had to do was get there.
By:Chris Chase
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Weir Wins Second Gold on Final Night of Missouri...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (USA Swimming)—Olympian and U.S. National Team member Amanda Weir (Lawrenceville, Ga./Swim Atlanta) won her second event of the meet Sunday at the Missouri Grand Prix, taking the women’s 100m freestyle with a time of 54.41. Finishing behind her were Hannah Wilson of Cal Aquatics in 55.27 and Victoria Poon of Canada in 55.38. The win marked a clean sweep of the sprint events for...
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Grevers Proposes to Chandler at Missouri Grand...
Columbia, Mo. (USA Swimming) – Olympian Matt Grevers’ (Lake Forest, Ill./Tucson Ford) heart was racing a little more than usual Saturday, just before the finals of the men’s 100m backstroke at the Missouri Grand Prix.
It wasn’t so much the mid-season race that was making him nervous, it was what he planned to do afterwards that was making him sweat. First he had to take care of business, which...
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Tyler McGill Takes Gold on First Night of Missouri...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (USA Swimming) – Tyler McGill (Champaign, Ill./Auburn Aquatics) was the sole member of the U.S. National Team to win gold Friday at the Missouri Grand Prix, taking the men’s 100m butterfly in 52.58. “I’ve been working on some technical things in workout, and I wanted to do a good job of applying those to my race this weekend,” McGill said. “It worked out really well. It’s my best...
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Can't Miss Race at the Missouri Grand Prix
One of the most intriguing match-ups this upcoming Olympic Trials will be the women’s 100 backstroke. Two-time defending Olympic champion Natalie Coughlin will attempt to qualify once again. Superstar-in-the-making Missy Franklin will compete for a spot. T2 Aquatics’ Elizabeth Pelton will make some noise. But one swimmer slightly overshadowed – but who could potentially produce one of the biggest...
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Yoo Too: 12 & Under The Minute
A day after we reported the promise of a 58.66 s/c 100m free from 12-year-old Dutch schoolgirl Marrit Steenbergen, news reaches us of Chloe Yoo, a 12-year-old Australian who has cracked the minute three times long-course in the past season and now boasts a best of 59.64.
Even more special than the time itself is the way she did it: 29.48 off the dive, 30.16 on the way home. Perhaps young...
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Cruise missile wins in Sydney
World champion James ‘the Missile’ Magnussen has continued his 14-race winning streak in the 100m freestyle by cruising to gold in 49.02, at the NSW State Championships in Sydney.
The Sydney sprinter who was last beaten over this distance at the corresponding event 12 months ago turned first at the far end of the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre pool, before holding off the fast finishing Gold...
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When someone cheats and then stops when you stop,...
Happens to me all the time.
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p-h-o-e-n-i-x-f-e-a-t-h-e-r-s asked: Hey! So, I'm here wondering if you had any tips for improving my 200 yd and 500 yd freestyle. I'm not the best kicker, and when I swim, I don't really kick. But I have high school states next week, and I don't want to worry about improving that just yet.
omnomandswim asked: Any tips for pre-race nerves? I psych myself out so bad but I work so hard in practice that I want to do well and it all just makes me nervous.
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Staying Healthy at the End of the Season
The last training cycle before taper is the most important one to take care of yourself. It represents either one of the hardest training cycles of the year, or the culmination of months and months of hard training and competing without a break. The physical stress of such training raises the cortisol levels in the body and suppresses the immune system. In addition, the human body does not...
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5 Storylines to Watch at the Missouri Grand Prix
Anyone else get incredibly excited watching pre-Olympic marketing hype during last night’s Super Bowl? With football season over, let the Olympic year commence. Last night, NBC milked Beijing imagery of our sport’s Golden Boy charging to the wall, reaching and out-touching Cavic by .01 – and I loved every hundredth. Each time I hear Dan Hicks legendary call of the Phelps vs. Cavic 100m...
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James Magnussen sending rivals a message
WORLD 100m freestyle swimming champion James Magnussen believes his sizzling early-year form is ringing alarm bells among his overseas rivals.
Magnussen 20, who burst onto the international scene last year with his sensational world title win, clocked a blistering 48.05sec to win the South Australian 100m title in Adelaide last month.
He will have his final hitout before next month’s...
