- Red China, gold China: with the 2008 Olympic Games on
the horizon, development in Beijing is booming. China's evolving
aquatics industry is a star in its own right.
Amid the bustle of Tiananmen is a large sign that once displayed a digital countdown of the seconds left before Hong Kong's return to China. Today, the neon numbers are ticking off the moments until the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, when Beijing takes the world spotlight. The city's selection by ......
- Engineered to win: The science behind ski and snow at the Olympic Winter Games
For the 2002 Winter Olympics, German Georg Hackl enlisted Porsche to design a faster and tighter luge sled, named Porsche 1. He took home silver, and made history as the first athlete, summer or winter, to medal in the same individual event at five consecutive games. US speedskater Casey FitzRandolph ......
- Golden opportunity: with the 2008 Olympic Games on the
horizon, the spotlight is on the nation's swimming and diving
athletes. But China's evolving aquatics industry stands to be the
big winner.
Amid the bustle of Tiananmen Square is a semitrailer-sized digital sign that once counted down the seconds before Hong Kong's return to China. Today, the massive neon numbers are ticking toward another momentous event: the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, when Beijing takes the world spotlight. Besting international powerhouses such as ......
- Olympic swim coach Haines passes
away.
George Haines, coach of swimmers such as Mark Spitz and Donna de Varona, passed away at the age of 82. His health had been declining after suffering a stroke in 2001, and he died in a nursing facility near Sacramento, Calif. Haines' Santa Clara Swim Club athletes won a total ......
- Reunion raises the bar for master-planned community
Mississippi's largest master-planned community, an upscale residential development featuring a 400-acre lake, sand beach with water sports, 18-hole golf course, tennis and swim club, village playground, equestrian center, walking trails and a brand new elementary school, would not have been possible if Nissan North America had not located an automotive ......
- CTS signs China contract.
Colorado Time Systems, headquartered in Loveland, Colo., signed a four-year agreement to become the official timing and scoring sponsor of the China Swimming Association. The contract, signed in January in Beijing, stipulates that the CSA agrees to utilize only CTS equipment for every major national swimming competition in China through ......
- Swimming Canada names new CEO.
Swimming Canada (SNC), the country's national governing body of swimming, appointed Pierre Lafontaine as its new CEO, effective April 18. At his new home, Lafontaine will try to lead Canada's struggling swim program to more victories. Beginning his coaching career in Montreal, Lafontaine later served as head coach of the ......