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For love of the game ESPN Share     We live in a world where Peyton Manning walks off the Super Bowl field without shaking anybody's hand. Where Tiger Woods leaves the Masters without a word of thanks to the fans or congratulations to the winner. Where NFL lineman Albert Haynesworth kicks a man's helmetless head without a thought. So if you think sportsmanship is toast, this next story is an all-you-can-eat buffet to a starving man. More
Report finds a gap persists in swimming The Wall Street Journal Share
Evidence of a continued swimming gap comes as the economic slowdown has cut back opportunities for inner-city kids to swim. With the passing of Memorial Day, the official start of swim season, "some cities are cutting back on pool hours if not closing pools altogether, and they're also cutting public-safety budgets, including lifeguards," says Christiana McFarland, director of finance and economic development for the National League of Cities. The report, including interviews with children and parents in several cities, revealed that the biggest barrier to inner-city swimming proficiency isn't a lack of pools and instructors, but parents' fear of water. More
For the athlete who has it all The Wall Street Journal Share
Of the four strokes swum in competition, butterfly is almost universally regarded as more exhausting than freestyle, breaststroke or backstroke. And therein lies its allure. In an age of ultramarathons, Ironman triathlons and crowds chugging up Mount Everest, long-distance butterfly swimming is becoming a new and less-crowded frontier for fitness fanatics. It's also hugely advantageous, because fly swimming, as it's known, requires enormous strengthening of every muscle in the body, particularly the core muscles in the abdomen and back. Tom Boettcher, a high-tech entrepreneur in Chicago, recently swam butterfly from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco, a distance of 1.5 miles, across choppy waters. And summer after summer he competes in the Big Shoulders 5K—a 3.1-mile race in Lake Michigan—swimming every stroke butterfly. More
Drinking milk may boost benefits of a workout WebMD Share
Women who do weight-lifting exercise routines may be better off drinking two large glasses of milk than sugar-based energy drinks after workout regimens, a new study shows. McMaster University researchers in Canada report they found that women who drank two large glasses of milk after weight-lifting exercises gained more muscle and lost more fat than women who drank sugar-based energy drinks. The finding is published in the June issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise. More Olympic gold medalist works to close racial gap in swimming News One Share
With Memorial Day past us, this year's beach and pool season is has begun. But a new study released by USA Swimming shows that many Black Americans can't safely join the fun: 70 percent of African-American children have little to no swimming ability, nearly twice as many as white kids, the report found. In addition, Black children 14 years old and younger are 2.6 times more like to fatally drown than white children in the same age group. These disparities are what led USA Swimming to develop the Make a Splash initiative, which aims to reduce drowning statistics among minority youth by providing access to swim lessons at low to no cost for kids across the country. Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones is their primary spokesman, and will spend this summer touring several U.S. cities to raise awareness about water safety among minorities. More
Healthier fats replacing trans fats, study finds HealthDay via Bloomberg BusinessWeek Share
Fears that removing harmful trans fats from foods would open the door for manufacturers and restaurants to add other harmful fats to foods seem to be unfounded, a new study finds. A team from Harvard School of Public Health analyzed 83 reformulated products from supermarkets and restaurants, and found little cause for alarm. More British Olympic Association criticises British Swimming for Youth Games omission Telegraph Share
The event is the brainchild of International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge and aims to replicate the Olympic Games with young athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 competing in all 26 Olympic sports. But British swimmers will not be among the expected 3,500 athletes taking part following a decision by senior British coaches to concentrate on other events in the pool this summer. More |
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