Word: swimmer
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...perhaps a virtual fence underwater? British defence firm QinetiQ has adapted its military underwater sonar system, Cerberus, into the private yacht market. It creates an underwater acoustic perimeter around a vessel that triggers an alert when broken. It "would identify an underwater swimmer, scuba diver or vehicle coming in under the water," said a company spokesman...
POOLMAN Laszlo Kiss was very disappointed when he failed to win a medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics. The 19-year-old Hungarian swimmer came up empty in the 200-m backstroke, but he got an unexpected consolation prize when U.S. gold medalist Mike Troy shared some of his training secrets with him. "I immediately saw the difference between the way Mike prepared and the way we did," says Kiss, now 67. "They trained more and harder, and the dry [land] training was very focused." For Kiss--and eventually for the world of swimming--that insight changed everything...
...Kiss's first successes came in the mid-1980s with 12-year-old Krisztina Egerszegi. Kiss had long wanted to try incorporating elements of the speedy crawl stroke into the pokier backstroke, but he never had a swimmer with the right flexibility. He recognized that Egerszegi was the talent he'd been waiting for and began teaching her the moves. That, however, required making minute but crucial changes in her technique--a very big deal in a sport in which fractions of a second count. So Kiss came up with inventive ways to help her learn...
...Michigan, earning numerous honors along the way. Last month, one of the Crimson’s most established coaches was recognized for her achievements as one of six former athletes inducted into the Michigan Hall of Honor. Allard’s fellow inductees include tennis player Michael Leach, swimmer Ann Colloton, synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson, and football players Bill Hewitt and Desmond Howard. Hewitt competed professionally for both the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Howard, currently an ESPN college football analyst, won the Heisman Trophy in 1991 and went...
...this time last year, Harvard men’s swimmer Geoff Rathgeber was enjoying monumental individual achievements. This year, though, the co-captain can feel even better, as those efforts produced a team championship and undefeated campaign for the Crimson (9-0). After losing to Princeton last season, No. 22 Harvard claimed the EISL title this weekend with 1564 points, besting the second-place Tigers by more than 300 points. As Athlete of the Week Rathgeber proved a huge part of that victory, although he deflected praise to the rest of the squad. “Everyone deserves...