Private club LA Fitness has joined forces with Community Swimming (part of British Swimming) in an initiative to get more of us taking the plunge. We caught up with former Olympic swimmer and Freestyle world champion Mark Foster to talk about his involvement in the scheme and also the upcoming London 2012 Olympics Goggleblog – [...]
All images: Press Association David Walliams celebrates as he completes his 140-mile charity swim along the River Thames in Westminster, London. The Little Britain funnyman, who has raised more than £1 million for Sport Relief, finished his extraordinary journey in eight days as thousands of fans -including Team Goggleblog – gathered at Westminster Bridge to [...]
You’ve got to admire the guy’s courage. Most people would have given up by now. But Little Britain star David Walliams is battling on with his Sport Relief Thames swim, despite debilitating stomach cramps and vomiting yesterday caused by swallowing water from the river. He’s been unable to eat very much, just a slice of [...]
It may not be the cleanest river in the world to swim, but it’s all for a good cause – to raise money for Sport Relief, a charity providing education, food, shelter and healthcare to some of the poorest people in the world. This morning Little Britain’s David Walliams set off on the 140 mile [...]
Name: Speedo Aquacoach Type: Swimming Computer Lap Counting watch Key features: • Automatically counts laps • Automatically times laps • Calculates average strokes per lap • Calculates calories burned • 100m water resistant • Works in all pools over 15m in length • Works with tumble turns and pushing off the wall • Pause function [...]
Goggleblog talks to Olympic and World swimming champion Rebecca Adlington about her 800m freestyle victory in Shanghai, her prospects for London 2012 and her love of chocolate! Goggleblog – First of all congratulations on your 800m freestyle victory in the World Championships in Shanghai. That was some race! Where on earth did you get the push [...]
With exactly one year to go until the London 2012 Olympics the Aquatics Centre has been unveiled. Costing £269 million, the Zaha Hadid designed building is undoubtedly impressive, but then so it should be given the original budget was a more modest £75 million. I only hope that at some point I get to at [...]
Highlights from Day One at FINA World Championships, Shanghai. Includes interview with Rebecca Adlington who won silver in 400m freestyle despite being placed in lane 1 after poor heats.
Just goes to show what can be achieved with a bit (well probably quite a lot) of effort – and some very decent quality coaching. When I saw Gadget Show presenter Jason Bradbury swimming a couple of months ago in the Serpentine, Hyde Park I had serious concerns about whether he would be able to [...]
Push The Limit, the Xbox 360 Kinect game starring half man/half fish Olympian Michael Phelps, has made its public debut at Shanghai’s FINA Swimming World Championships. While keeping their feet firmly on dry land, the attending vistors and media were able to get in the virtual pool for the first hands-on sessions with the game. [...]
