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Interview: Lewis Pugh talks extreme swimming and the environment
Extreme swimmer Lewis Pugh swam 1km across a glacial lake on Mount Everest to highlight the issue of climate change The first person to swim long distance in every ocean, Lewis Pugh, 40, has just...
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Interview: Lisa Irlam, Inventor of the Swimovate swim computer
A keen swimmer and triathlete, Lisa spotted a gap in the market with a watch that can automatically count your laps Swimovate’s Pool-Mate is a fabulous new gadget for swimmers. It may look like a watch...
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Interview: Bill Furniss, Rebecca Adlington’s coach
Bill Furniss, Rebecca Adlington's coach Just what goes into producing a top, world record breaking Olympic swimmer ? Goggleblog‘s Chris Price was put through his paces with Rebecca Adlington’s coach,...
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Interview: Liam Tancock, the world’s fastest backstroker
Liam Tancock puts the much less muscled and less tanned journalists through their paces! The world’s fastest 50m backstroker with a time of 24.04 seconds, 25 year old Liam Tancock is one of our...
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Interview with Sean Kelly, open water coach
Goggleblog's Chris Price (left) with Speedo sponsored coach Sean Kelly (right) Goggleblog headed down for a dip in London’s Serpentine Lido to talk to Speedo coach Sean Kelly about swimming in open...
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Interview: Mark Foster on LA Fitness/British Swimming partnership
Six-times world champion swimmer Mark Foster attends an event to highlight the 2012 Schools Games finals, at the 2012 Aquatics Centre, London. Image - Press Association Private club LA Fitness has...
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Interview: Charlie Boldison, 2012 Swimming Champs finalist
Goggleblog catches up with Barnet Copthall Swimming Club‘s brightest young talent, Charlie Boldison. Just 19, he recently competed in the British Gas National Swimming Championships at the Aquatics...
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Paralympics 2012: Sport doesn’t care who you are.
Not long to go until the 2012 London Paralympics and we’re looking forward to seeing James O’Shea competing in the SB5 category in the 100m breaststroke. James lost his legs in a horrific teenage...
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Interview: Olympic Gold Medallist Duncan Goodhew talks about Swimathon 2013
Goggleblog editor Chris Price holds Olympic Gold Medallist Duncan Goodhew's gold medal Duncan Goodhew became a household name when he won Olympic Gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, swimming 100m...
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Sean Conway talks about his Land’s End John O’Groats swim
Sean Conway is attempting to become the first person to swim from Land's End to John O'Groats On June 30th adventurer Sean Conway will set off on a swim that has never before been tried. He will...
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Interview: Kathy Watson, author of The Crossing
Goggleblog catches up with Kathy Watson, author of The Crossing, a book about the first person to swim The Channel, Captain Matthew Webb Kathy Watson, author of The Crossing What inspired you to write...
View ArticleMichael Phelps: 'swimming is the complete workout'
Michael Phelps talks about the benefits of swimming, about how it uses every muscle in the body, but is much lower risk than other sports. “It’s a total body workout and not very taxing on the body,”...
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Is King’s Cross really getting its own swimming pond?
The proposed King’s Cross Swimming Pond, but is it for real? It sounded unlikely when I first read this in The Evening Standard last night, but apparently the developers of Kings Cross have put in a...
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REVIEW: SWIM BRITAIN 2014, LONDON FIELDS LIDO
I must admit when I first heard about Swim Britain a couple of years ago I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t quite get my head round what it was and thought other people might struggle too. Is it a charity...
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Goggleblog talks to Planet Swim’s open water coach Leigh Harvey
Swim coach Leigh Harvey (right) gives a safety briefing ahead of swimming in Merchant Taylors Lake, Northwood, Middlesex What does it take to be an open water coach? Chris Price talks to Planet Swim’s...
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