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By Wayne Goldsmith
Every swimmer has goals or dreams. For some the dream is finishing their first event. For others it’s an Olympic Gold. The challenge is turning dreams into reality.
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By Wayne Goldsmith
Anything worth having is worth working to achieve. Talent is important, but there are many talented swimmers who don’t make it to the top. TOUGH, TENACIOUS TRAINING makes up for most talent limitations.
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By Gary Barclay
There were many close races, favourites won and favourites lost. Swimmers swam world records and still didn’t win. The relays were very fast, with the major upset in the relays, the Women’s 4 x 200 team came out of no where to win the gold medal.
This article covers the top 5 things that I learnt from watching the Olympics.
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By Gary Barclay
With the Olympics on our doorstep, there are many ways swimmers can use the Games to improve their own swimming. Swimming is one of the major sports at the Olympics and the television coverage will provide all swimmers, with the opportunity to watch and analyse the techniques used by the best swimmers in the world.
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By Wayne Goldsmith
OK. It’s 5:00 a.m. It’s still dark. You would probably rather be home in bed asleep. Your coach has come in as enthusiastic and motivated as ever and has written up a workout ....... what will you do that is better, faster and smarter than everyone else to give you the winning edge?
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By Wayne Goldsmith
High Performance Nutrition for Swim Meets, competitions and carnivals:
A Guide for Swimmers, Coaches, Parents and Clubs.
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By Wayne Goldsmith and Helen Morris
Follow the tips in this article and improve your swimming. It covers lots of tips an ideas on what you can do to improve your swimming.
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By Wayne Goldsmith
Speed is the most crucial element in the sport. It’s fundamental. The swimmer, who swims fastest, wins the race. But is it really that simple?
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By Wayne Goldsmith
There are no guarantees to success. You can however increase the likelihood of success by making training more demanding than you ever thought possible, attempting to so the impossible everyday and aiming to win every workout.
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Prohibited List World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) |
2009 Prohibited list published
The list will go into effect on January 1, 2009.
Along with information on the 2009 Monitoring Program and a Q&A listing, can be found on the WADA website here:
http://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibitedlist.ch2
WADA has also recently published revisions to the standards for
Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs). That revised international standard
can be found online here:
http://www.wada-ama.org/en/dynamic.ch2?pageCategory.id=373
The WADA Executive Committee has also approved a privacy standard, which
goes into effect on January 1, 2009.
 All underlined Technique Sheets are available to download in Adobe Portable Document Format |
