Meet Britain's Olympic water babes

who've shed their inhibitions along with their costumes

Key to girls:

1 Monique Gladding, 29, from Sheffield: 10 metre high board, individual and synchronised;

2 Sophie Casson, 25, from Hest Bank, Lancashire: 10km open water swim;

3 Stephanie Millward, 29, from Swansea: Paralympic swimming;

4 Brooke Graddon, 23, from Plymouth: 10 metre high board diving;

5 Stacey Tadd, 21, from Bath: 200m breaststroke;

6 Lisa Gibson, 21, from Manchester: Water polo (centre-forward);

7 Robyn Nichols, 20, Manchester: Water polo (goal);

8 Katie Dawkins, 22, from Bristol: Synchronised swimming; 

9 Rachel Lefley, 20, from Gainsborough: Short course swimming;

10 Amy Smith, 23, from Kidderminster:  Freestyle sprint swimming;

11 Tonia Couch, 21, from Plymouth: 10 metre high board individual and synchronised;

12 Georgia Davies, 20, from Swansea: Backstroke

 

Arena

Arena Swimwear: Noah's Ark

From the pool deck to the world stage

Meghan Kinney is done watching.

Now, she wants a turn to be in the spotlight.
Following a rich Olympic experience in Beijing last summer as the team's replacement athlete for the U.S. synchronized swimming team, Kinney is stepping to the forefront and preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

As a replacement athlete in Beijing, Kinney, a native of Mission Viejo, Calif., was required to know every single technical and free routine of every swimmer, an arduous task. She also had to be ready to step in should one of her teammates suffer an injury. 

"It was definitely hard just to watch," Kinney said during a telephone interview from Columbus, Ohio, where she is finishing her freshman year at Ohio State. "It was a whole different mindset. I was thrown into different patterns and you have to always think on your feet really fast. It was a good learning experience.

Lochte & Phelps Head Strong GP Line-Up

 

America's top guns Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps meet at the Minneapolis Grand Prix on November 11-13, the event at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center that marks the first round of seven in the USA Swimming Grand Prix Series.
The meet will also feature Missy Franklin, who is defending her overall series title, Brendan Hansen, Dara Torres, Missy Franklin, Peter Vanderkaay, Katie Hoff, Garrett Weber-Gale, Ed Moses, Kate Ziegler. and Kara Lynn Joyce.
US-based overseas internationals entered for the meet include European champion Gemma Spofforth and British teammate Simon Burnett, China's Wu Peng, South Africa's Darian Townsend and from France Laure Manaudou, Fred Bousquet, Yannick Agnel and Camille Muffat.
The grand prix series ends June 2 next year in Santa Clara, Calif., with top points scorers winning $20,000.

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phelps music

Favourite Music for phelps

 

"I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them … DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD …whichever song really gets me going that night".

Michael Phelps

For The Mother RUSSIA ! 

Water Polo

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British Synchronised Swimming

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British Synchronised Swimming, powered by British Gas, is the discipline that develops the elite side of the sport. It identifies and trains athletes and sets long-term strategies and clear objectives for the sport.  

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Butterfly ...a different breed of swimmer

but.ter.fly (but' er-fli') n. 1. A swimming stroke requiring (in theory) super human strength and extraordinary coordination, but characterized (in actuality) by randomly placed arm movements and erratic breathing patterns. Performance of this stroke is usually accompanied by incessant yelling on the part of the coach, sheer hysteria on the part of the parent, and near drowning on the part of the ...swimmer.

Butterflyers or butterfliers are basically a different breed of swimmer. You would know if you are one of the few who love the feeling of a butterfly set!

We are a rare breed, but a proud one.

You know you're a butterflyer when:

1. You can do a set of 400's butterfly without breaking stroke

2. When you're often mistaken for a wrestler or gymnast because of your broad upper body

3. You know that staying underwater for the full 15 meters is the best way to swim any distance of fast fly

4. You've adopted side-breathing, or have experimented with it

5. You'd rather do a set of 200 or 300 flys instead of a distance free set

6. If you're short, you flat out suck at free and back, but breast is your 2nd best stroke

7. You're the strongest out of all the swimmers when it comes to dryland work (this is disputable, as breastsrokers are pretty damn strong too)

8. You own, or have owned a mono-fin

9. Lady butterflyers: You hate your huge upper body and wish you were better at backstroke or freestyle

10. You have severe shoulder problems

11. Even with shoulder problems, you're still fast

12. Your fly times just as fast--if not faster--than your free times

13. You kill everybody, even backstrokers in underwater kick

14. Old school flyers: your triceps, rear deltoids, and back are ripped to shreds

15. New school flyers: your quads, ass, and abs are ripped to shreds

16. You have really flexible shoulders, even though they're huge

17. You're so flexible that you can do a butterfly stretch all the way around your head

18. You slack off on a set after a fly group set

19. You know how to do a warm down set doing butterfly. And the other swimmers think you're crazy b/c they think "easy fly" is impossible

20. You have neck like bulldog.

21. Soreness in the shoulders and triceps doesn't exist anymore

22. You can talk about, and go through the motion of moving your hips in a "pelvic thrust" without laughing about it

23. You've been in a cheesy competition where you swam 200 fly, and you were the only one in the heat...or in the whole race!

24. You know you're a Butterflyer when you always have to wait FOREVER for the relay guy in front of you, with his painfully slow and clunky Breaststroke.

25. You know you're a butterflyer when you always manage to get (and sometimes lose) an insane early lead in the IM.

26. you know you're a butterflyer when you're always the most exhausted after a choice set

27. You know your a female flyer when your arms are the same size as some of the guys!

28. you know your a butterflyer when you can do the hundred fly, turn around and swim a 500 free in competition.

29. You know you're a flyer when you get excited for backward 400 IMs...cuz you're the only one who can sprint the last 100

30. You know you're a butterflyer when nobody wants to swim behind you in practice because they'll swallow your ridiculously huge waves

31. You know you're a flyer when you've sprained your finger/wrist at least once because you hit somebody else's hand while swimming fly (our hands are moving at the highest velocity out of all other strokes)

 

Swimming isn't just a sport..it's a lifestyle

For all the people who can't imagine their life without swimming and who have friends who just don't get it.

SWIMMING. Its part of us, its something welive for. we live for the 5 a.m practices, pasta parties, cheers, long bus rides, invitationals, countless swim caps, chlorine, and coaches you hate but appreciate later. we live for the way it feels when you beat the person next to you by a tenth of a second and you know those 2 extra laps you did in practice were worth it. It's the feeling you get at the end of a hard practice, when you've pushed yourself to the limits, and it's the way the water feels when get back in after time off, it's knowing that you don't have to shave for months at a time, and thinking of 7:00 am practice as sleeping in. It's muscle cramps, swimmers ear, and 11 practices a week. It's when your coach knows you better than your father, and your teammates are your brothers and sisters. It's seeing everyone else cheer you on during a race, and knowing your team is behind you. It's borrowing caps and sharing shampoo, and It's hearing people at school say "It's must be a swimmer thing,” It's a collection of T-shirts and ribbons, and not really being able to put into words how the meet went. It's knowing that you got up and did something you love, and something you hate, and something you can't really explain. It's the way you walk, and the way you talk. It's something that no one else really understands because they haven't felt the felling you get every time you step up on the blocks, that swimming isn't just a sport... it's all the friends and coaches over the years, all the practices and inside jokes, all the memories, all the fun times and all the road trips. But it’s also swimming for pride and honor. It’s the pain, sweat and tears it takes to make the cuts. It’s sacrificing everything, your body, your time, your sweat and your tears. Its knowing how it feels win, but also how it feels to lose, to want to cry, to want to never get up, But its also never quitting because your life would be empty without it. Because swimming is more than just a sport... 

You know you're a swimmer ... if ..

*If whenever you hear an electronic beep, and you instinctively jump, you might be a swimmer.

*If you have rings around your eyes unrelated to the amount of sleep you got, you might be a swimmer.

*If waking up before dawn to exercise seems normal, you might be a swimmer. (You might also be crazy)
...
*If jamming a piece of Styrofoam between your legs is not a kinky sexual activity, you might be a swimmer.

*If bugs die of chlorine poisoning when they land on your skin, you might be a swimmer.

*If you sport long, curling hair with split ends on your legs, you might be a swimmer.

*If the phrase "This set with fins" is better than hearing "You just won $1000," you might be a swimmer.

*If you answer, "I don't need to" when someone asks when you showered last, you might be a swimmer.

*If you love a good lightning storm when you have outdoor practice, you might be a swimmer.

*When you learn how to squirt water 15 different ways, you might be a swimmer.

*When your long term goal is to slap your bicep on your lat, you might be a swimmer.

* When you wake up before six for the free doughnuts, you might be a swimmer.

*When you go through so much latex in one season you could wallpaper your room, you might be a swimmer.

*If a friend asks how a certain guy dresses and you reply, "I only see him without his clothes on" you might be a swimmer. [SPEEDOS!!!]

*If your friends have stopped asking you about your plans for the evenings, you might be a swimmer.

*If you go from store to store desperately trying to find your favorite sports drink, you might be a swimmer.

*If the first place you go when you're stressed out is a swimming pool, you might be a swimmer.

*If your daily apparel is held together by knots or is torn and see through, you might be a swimmer.

*If you have an inhaler in every color of the rainbow, you might be a swimmer.

*If the phrase, "50 double armed backstroke with a breast stroke kick makes you happier than anything, you might be a swimmer.

*If being fish-like is a compliment, you might be a swimmer.

*If your friends don't even call you anymore because they know that you have no time to do anything, you might be a swimmer.

*If your nightmares consist of a series of numbers ending in 0 or 5, you might be a swimmer.

*If you have hickeys on your neck, you might be a swimmer or you might be lucky.

*If you sweat chlorine even after showering, you might be a swimmer.

*If you just don't understand the charm of the swim suit edition, you might be a swimmer.

*If getting smacked on the butt doesn't bother you at all, you might be a swimmer.

*If someone asks if you have any siblings and you start listing teammates, you might be a swimmer.

*If you cut yourself every time you shave, because you only do it 3 or 4 times a year and are out of practice, you might be a female swimmer.

* If you are determined, strong, smart and tough, you might be a swimmer.

*If you shamelessly walk around the hallways at school in your bathing suit, you might be a swimmer.

*If you think bald heads are hot, you might be a female swimmer.

*If the person who sits behind you in you're math class always tells you that you reak of chlorine, you might be a swimmer.

* If land is your second home, you might be a swimmer.

* If you sometimes have trouble walking because you aren't use to it, you might be a swimmer.

* If you suck at running, you might be a swimmer.

* If your stronger than many of the guys and all the girls in your grade, you might be a female swimmer.

* If you have to try on 30 shirts just to find one that fits your shoulders, you might be a female swimmer.

* If your hair remains in a wet ponytail throughout the day, you might be a swimmer.

* If when the life guard tryouts say you have to swim a 500 in less than 9 minutes you laugh, you might be a swimmer.

* If you have a permanent suit, goggle, and cap tan, you might be a swimmer.

* If all you ever do is eat and sleep during school, you might be a swimmer.

* If all your saturday and friday nights are spent around water, you might be a swimmer.

* If The Toadies "I Come From The Water" is your theme song, you might be a swimmer.

* If the first thing you look at in a guy is abs, you might be a female (maybe even a male) swimmer.

* If you are at the school so early in the morning for practice that you beat the janitors there and the lights in the parking lot are off, you might be a swimmer.

*If a practice of only 5000 yards sounds like heaven to you, you might be a swimmer.

*If you practice 3 or more times a day during the summer, you might be a swimmer.

*If your used to takin a 2 miinute shower and rushing to get dressed just to make it to class a minute after the tardy bell rings, you might be a female swimmer.

* And finally, If every time someone complains about how early they got up to get ready for school, you turn around and bite their head off and almost beat the living **** out of them, you might be a swimmer.

*If your shoes always squeak when you walk down the hall, you might be a swimmer.

*If you walk around with minimal amounts of clothing on, you might be a swimmer.

*If the only thing you can talk about is swimming, you might be a swimmer.

*If you pee on the pooldeck then walk around barefoot, you might be a male swimmer.

*If there are wet towels over every door in your house, you might be a swimmer.

*If your siblings call you beefstick, man-shoulders, Amazon, or Behemoth (emphasis on the HE), you might be a swimmer

SWIMMERS ARE BETTER IN BED

Lets be honest. Circle Tans and goggle marks may not be sexy. And we might not look our best right when we get out of the pool looking dead with knappy ass hair. But in a recent survey, SWIMMERS WERE VOTED THE SEXIEST ATHLETES (Right above cheerleaders)... If you need more evidence that Swimmers are sexy, these are direct quotes from magazines...

"Swimmers make great lovers because of their stro...ng hip flexors and abdominal muscles that give then great stamina in bed.
- PlayBoy Magazine


"Because of physiological changes in certain hormone producing metabolic pathways during aerobic exercise, swimmers are the most sexually active athletes."
-Time Magazine

There you have it. We are just plain HOT.

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