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Update from Youth Olympic Games, Singapore (Thu 19/08/10)
Jenni is under the weather, but no frogs for Mark!
Jenni: "Not feeling so good today - thought I had a cold developing last night and this morning I had a continuous running nose and sneezing - think it is the continual hot weather combined with the freezing air conditioning, hence one minute I am boiling hot and the next freezing cold, so dosing myself up with pills, keeping my distance from Mark and hoping to feel better soon.
Skipped breakfast, no appetite. Also thunder and lightning so had to delay Mark's training, but at 12.30 a break appeared in the clouds, so it was a quick walk over to the pool and Mark jumped in for his last training session. All went well - no frogs, so peaceful.
Then it was a quick lunch and back to our rooms for a rest before an early tea, a visit to see some photos that the 'young photographers' (volunteer photographers) took of Mark on Tuesday. Some great photos - hopefully they will be published at a later date.
Now in the TV room catching up with emails, checking up on results from the ASA Nationals and then to bed, early rise tomorrow to go to the Singapore Sports School for the 200m backstroke heats." » -
News from Youth Olympic Games, Singapore (Wed 18th Aug 2010)
Mark trained in the Nanyang Technical University pool this morning, which is where the Olympic Village (YOV) is situated.
He had rather a nasty shock as he found that, besides a few other swimmers, there were also several frogs! I now know that Mark is rather scared of frogs - it disrupted the training somewhat, especially when I said "What's that behind you Mark?! - he thought it was a frog, screamed and started splashing - he had everyone at the pool in fits of laughter. Thankfully, when we went later in the day to train, all the frogs had gone.
We visited the Athletics track today. It was very busy and enjoyable to watch, but ended up with heavy rain, lightning and thunder which, happily, did not last long.
Only two days to go now until Mark has his 200m backstroke, we are hoping for a good personal best and from what I have seen in training this looks very likely. » -
British Championships Day 1 - Monday 29th March 2010
Cameron Brodie 200m Fly – Heat 2.02.94 Read more »
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Recipe of the Week - Oriental Beef Stir-fry
The swimmers recipe of the week from Performance Nutritionist, Michael Naylor is Oriental Beef Stir-fry. The meal is stacked with protein (for recovery and rebuilding of muscle tissue), iron and B vitamins (for the delivery of energy to muscle tissue) and antioxidants (to boost immunity and health) with a great oriental taste! Read more »
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Matthew Strikes Gold
Matthew Henry from Liddaton, who is a member of the Kelly College Swim Squad, won in his first senior title at the Scottish Short Course (25m) Swimming Championships last weekend at the Tollcross Aquatic Centre in Glasgow. Find out how the rest of the Kelly Squad fared »