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Pan American Maccabi Games Swimming Teams Donation Links

The 13th Pan American Maccabi Games will be held in Santiago, Chile. Below you will see the names of the swimmers on Maccabi USA’s Swimming teams at the Pan American Maccabi Games.

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Killer Abs Workout In Just 6 Minutes For Better Core Connection

What better way to tighten that core then to do a killer Ab workout in only 6 short minutes.

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The Post Workout Window

Whether or not to eat after practice has caused many debates. If you practice hard, then you are depleting glycogen, and tearing and ripping the muscles during training. If you want to repair your body and build up muscles, your body needs the fuel so it can recover from your workouts.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets of the Week: #3 Campbell Sibs Lose Some Teeth

Bronte and Cate Campbell are two of the deadliest sprinters in the world right now.

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Hamburg 2024 Releases Simulated Olympic Vision Ahead of Public Vote

Get a feel for what a Hamburg-hosted 2024 Summer Olympic Games could be like by watching a visual depiction of how the venues, parks and athletes’ village could appear.

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Tamsin Cook Wins West Australia’s Junior Athlete Of The Year Award

Tamsin Cook has been named ‘Western Australia Institute of Sport’s Junior Athlete of the Year’

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Aqualillies for JOLYN: October Lookbook

Photographer Hailley Howard – Producer Mallyce Miller – Makeup + Hair Marlaine Reiner – Models: Jeanie Joseph, Jane Kok, Ali Ziel and Diana Care – Coordinators: Kate and Carla Niis

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Former Dive Coach Sentenced To Up To 7 Years In Prison For Child Pornography

A former Pennsylvania high school swimming and diving coach has been sentenced to up to 7 years in a state prison for possessing child pornography and inappropriately touching a girl.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 87% Agree With Long Course World Cup Format in 2015

Maybe the only person not to benefit from the World Cup’s switch to a long course format is Katinka Hosszu, who has found it harder to rack up the $10,000 world record bonuses this season.

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Fighting Diabetes, One Lap at a Time: Carly Lenett and Kristy Kowal

Kristy Kowal teamed up with Carly Lenett to give diabetes a run for its money. For the fourth year in a row, the pair swam side-by-side for 75 minutes together, non-stop, raising funds (over $25,000) and awareness for the American Diabetes Association.

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Blood-Flow Drug Meldonium Added To WADA’s Banned Substances List

Anti-ischemic drug Meldonium has been upgraded to WADA’s banned substances list for 2016, and swimming federations have already started to warn athletes of its coming illegality.

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Former SMU Mustang Rangelova Up For ‘Miss Bulgaria In The USA’

Bulgarian-born Nina Rangelova is participating in the ‘Miss Bulgaria in the USA’ pageant later this month.

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Why Great Britain’s Olympic Qualifying Standards Might Not Be As Crazy As They Seem

Great Britain’s selection system will cut the team’s size, sure, but it shouldn’t affect any clear medal hopefuls and gives the federation flexibility to put together a roster it feels good about, two major pluses in Olympic selection.

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What Is A Performance Based Identity and How Does It Affect Athletes?

Dr. Ben Houltberg breaks down “Performance Based Identity” in this 26 minute presentation.

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Free speed- Introducing the Air Gallop for Open Water Swimming

Swimming is not golf, there are no extra points for the least amount of strokes taken. It is not diving, there are no extra points for pretty. Swimming is swimming.

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