I'm still hacking my way through Плавание, the official magazine of the Russian Swimming Federation. It is work reading Russian, although reading swimming vocabulary is more fun than, say, reading politics or current events.
The majority of the magazine covers the Russian National Team, and their successes since, I suppose, the last issue. The Russians did pretty well at the World Cup in Dubai. The cup was SCM in a newly built natatorium. The organizers opened up the Cup at 10:10.10 on 10/10/10. Perhaps that was lucky for the Russians; for the first time in history, they earned second place in a World Cup.
They earned 10 medals: 4 golds, 4 silver and 2 bronze. They were beaten only by, yes you guessed it, the U.S.! Our team earned 12 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze for a total of 25. Our guys broke some records. Ryan LOCHTE broke the world cup record in 200m free in 1:41.08.
The Russians broke some records, to include a new (as of Oct 10) world record in the 4 x 200: 6:49.04. Stanislav DONETS broke two world cup records, one in the 50m back in 22.93 and in the 100m back in 49.07.
The Russians have a section called Pride of the Nation as well as a section dedicated to Trainers. I haven't read in-depth those articles yet. The training article on vertical kicking was a good read, but there is another training article on, I think, VO2 Max. That will take a bit of study.
