You'd be forgiven for thinking in the build up to the Australian World Championship trials that the meet was more about who won't be swimming than those who will be giving their … Continue Reading→
Yearly Archives: 2005
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parry bows out with athens memories
Steve Parry, one of only two British swimming medallists in Athens and the pullbuoy swimmer of the year for 2004, today announces his retirement from swimming. The decision, which comes on the eve of Britain's trials for the world championships, was hastened by a recent back operation which had ruled Parry out of that … Continue Reading→
legg calls it a day
Karen Legg has become the latest of Britain's Athens Olympic team to call it a day, having announced that she will hang up her goggles after this weekend's Dorset County Championships. During her elite career, Legg won two world titles as part of the 4x200m freestyle team and picked up 7 Commonwealth medals across two … Continue Reading→
elka graham to miss worlds
Dual Olympian Elka Graham will miss this year's world championships in Montreal after she was forced to undergo arthroscopic surgery in Melbourne on Thursday on a nagging right hip injury and will now not compete in the Autralian World Championship Trials.
Graham, one of Australia's leading middle-distance swimmers who won Olympic relay silver in Sydney in … Continue Reading→
swimming: the fountain of youth?
PHOENIX, USA: THE fabled Fountain of Youth may be found in a pool near you, according to research by Indiana University's Dr. Joel Stager, an exercise physiologist, who has found that regular and fairly intensive swimming can substantially delay the decline of such age markers as blood pressure, muscle mass, blood chemistry and pulmonary function.
Last … Continue Reading→