Rebecca Adlington qualified fastest for Friday’s 800m freestyle final at the British Championships to stay on course for her third title of the week. Double Olympic champion Adlington, who has already won the 200m and 400m, clocked eight minutes 35.99 seconds. Olympic 10km bronze medallist Cassandra Patten, who was third in the 1500m freestyle, was [...]
Britain’s golden girl Rebecca Adlington came from behind to win her second gold medal of the British Gas Swimming Championships in the 200m Freestyle. The event proved to be one of the closest battles of the competition with all girls qualifying for the final within 1.2 seconds of each other. At the halfway point 1500m [...]
Day Three of the British Gas Swimming Championships in Manchester saw Gemma Spofforth book her place at the World Championships with 100m Backstroke gold. Spofforth overhauled European silver medallist Lizzie Simmonds to touch home in one minute 00.52 seconds. Florida-based Spofforth, who had lost her 100m backstroke crown to Simmonds in 2010, described her win [...]
I discovered British Pathe earlier in the week and am absolutely loving some of its old swimming footage. As well as fantastic 60s shots of London Lidos and 1930s instructional videos showing you how to swim freestyle (before tumbleturns) there are also hidden gems, like this one from 1963. I must confess to having something [...]
Not content with re-using its LZR Racer swimwear at this year’s EcoBuild Show – see story here – Speedo has also unveiled a new fashion collaboration with award winning ethical fashion designers From Somewhere. Produced using surplus stocks of its revolutionary Speedo LZR Racer suit – the swimsuit banned by swimming’s governing body FINA in [...]
Just what do you do with a bunch of LZR Racer swimsuits which you can no longer sell? Recycle them, of course! Since FINA (Federation International de Natation), swimming’s governing body, introduced new rules regarding swimsuit design back in January 2010, Speedo has been left with 18,000 of its popular record-breaking swimsuits sitting on its [...]
Swimathon president and former Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew talks about this year’s Swimathon 2011which is raising money for Marie Curie cancer care. He also talks about the UK’s favourite pools – including Ponds Forge in Sheffield – and how to save your local pool from closure by going to a new British Gas sponsored website, [...]
In this video Olympic champion Natalie Coughlin tells us which are her most useful training aids and how she uses them. Want to read more about how to use the training aids? Click here to read Speedo coach Daniel Bullock’s article, courtesy of H2Open magazine.
After leaking, one of the biggest complaints we hear about swimming goggles at Goggleblog is the ‘Panda Eye’ effect - two big rings around your eyes appearing where the goggles have been rubbing your skin. It seems many women opt for larger face mask style designs (like Aquasphere Kayennes), in particular, to avoid that unpleasant [...]
Michael Phelps has broken his silence about Ian Thorpe’s dramatic return to competitive swimming, saying he is excited about racing him at the London 2012 Olympics. Thorpe beat Phelps and Dutch legend Pieter van den Hoogenband in the 200m final at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and Phelps is looking forward to trying to reverse [...]
