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British Olympic Swimmers Visit Hospital

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The Olympic swimmers Duncan Goodhew and Mark Foster visited Christ’s Hospital school as part of a promotion for the Sport Relief Swimathon. This year there are 644 pools around the UK taking part in the swimathon.

OLYMPIC swimmers, Duncan Goodhew and Mark Foster, and BBC Breakfast sports reporter, Mike Bushell, joined Christ’s Hospital school pupils for a swimathon promotion to be broadcast on BBC Breakfast show.

The swimmers joined pupils at Bluecoats Health and Fitness Club to recreate some of the swimming categories of the 1900s, including the plunge, the under water swim and the obstacle, which have now been dropped from the Olympics.

Ben Way, who organised the swimathon said Christ’s Hospital have been one of the biggest school supporters of the Sport Relief swimathon over the last few years.

He said: “Considering there 644 pools around the country taking part, to be one of the biggest school pools involved is a big achievement.

“People who do a 2.5 to 5KM swim will be doing it for Marie Curie. This is the first time we have had a swimming option as well as a running option and we already have a few thousand people involved and we are hoping that’ll be tens of thousands by the time of… continue reading

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Olympic Coach Unimpressed With Phelps

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Olympic coach Bob Bowman was left unimpressed with Michael Phelps’ performance at the Indianapolis Grand Prix on Thursday. Even though he won the 100m butterfly and was runner-up in the 100m freestyle, Bowman felt Phelps did not prepare mentally for the competition.

INDIANAPOLIS, US – Michael Phelps won the 100m butterfly and was runner-up in the 100m freestyle at the Indianapolis Grand Prix on Thursday, but the Olympic swim star did not impress coach Bob Bowman.

Nathan Adrian managed to ignore his torn swimsuit to hold off hard-charging Phelps in the 100m free final, winning in 48.62sec. Phelps was second in 48.74.

Phelps bounced back with his 100m fly victory in 52.23, but Bowman said the 14-time Olympic gold medallist was not paying enough attention to the details.

Bowman said Phelps’s seventh-fastest qualifying time in the freestyle was due to lack of mental preparation.

And he was unhappy with Phelps’s glide to the finish in the fly final, ahead of Poland’s Marcin Tarczynski (52.92).

“I can’t stand those finishes like that. He’s got to start making that important,” Bowman said. “We’re at a point now where the details are important and you can’t just keep blowing them off till later. It is later.”

Phelps, who reigned over the Beijing… continue reading

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