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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Swimming & diving
Kaitlin Sandeno was one of the world's greatest and most versatile
swimmers. Competing at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, she was a part
of the world record breaking 4x200-meter relay team and is one of
an elite few to medal in three different strokes. In Golden Glow:
How Kaitlin Sandeno Achieved Gold in the Pool and in Life, Dan
D'Addona recounts Sandeno's amazing swimming career, including her
spectacular Olympic performances, and details the impact she has
made in the world outside the pool. Breaking into the Olympics at
seventeen years old, she became the face of the team with her
enthusiasm and bubbly personality. She returned to the Olympics
four years later to have one of the most dominating meets by an
American woman in history. But Sandeno's legacy in the pool is
nothing compared to how she has used her platform to help those
around her. She is the national spokesperson for the Jessie Rees
Foundation and spreads joy around the country to children with
cancer. She has emceed Olympic trials, hosted multiple shows for
USA Swimming, and has given back to her sport, working for USA
Swimming and coaching youth teams. Golden Glow is not only the
story of how hard work and perseverance led Sandeno to Olympic
gold, but also how she has used her success in the pool to inspire
those around her.
This conference book includes contemporary reports and
corresponding studies on swim starts conducted by young scientists
from around the world. The various topics relate to individual
starts from the block, backstroke starts, and relay starts,
highlighting different aspects and phases of the corresponding
movement behavior. Most of the reports published in this book have
been presented during the 2015 Young Experts Workshop of Swim Start
Research supported by the Federal Institute of Sport Science in
Germany.
Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku
(1890-1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon,
waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their
splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of
Waikiki to become America's first superstar Olympic swimmer. The
original "human fish" set dozens of world records and topped the
world rankings for more than a decade. Kahanamoku used his Olympic
renown to introduce the sport of "surf-riding," an activity unknown
beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. No American athlete has
influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he
remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned
Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance
long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie
Robinson. Kahanamoku's connection to his homeland was equally
important. He was born when Hawaii was an independent kingdom; he
served as the sheriff of Honolulu during Pearl Harbor and World War
II and as a globetrotting "Ambassador of Aloha" afterward. In
Waterman award-winning journalist David Davis examines the
remarkable life of Duke Kahanamoku, in and out of the water.
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