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3 Tweet Tuesday
Our favorite swim tweets of the week.
3 Tweet Tuesday
People tweet 20 million times per hour. Here are my 3 swimming gems of the week...💎💎💎
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Significant swimming news: Tokyo Olympic medalist Regan Smith is turning full-time professional, leaving Stanford and moving her training to Arizona State under Bob Bowman, who coached Michael Phelps and is amassing a large pro group in Tempe. Story to come.
— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde)
2:13 PM • Aug 9, 2022
Breaking news! Looks like UVA is going to win another National Championship in Swimming.
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Summer reading pivot from books to academic research: THE MUNDANITY OF EXCELLENCE—AN ETHNOGRAPHIC REPORT ON STRATIFICATION AND OLYMPIC SWIMMERS by @DanFChambliss (with a @RowdyGaines reference)“Excellence is mundane.” (HINT: Read the next tweet for the great content)…
— Greg Sankey (@GregSankey)
12:57 PM • Aug 8, 2022
“Excellence is accomplished through the doing of actions - ordinary in themselves - performed consistently and carefully, habitualized, compounded together, added up over time…The action, in itself, is nothing special; the care and consistency with which it is made is.”
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This is the best thing you’ll see today
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano)
2:31 AM • Aug 9, 2022
Swimming can only dream of this kind of marketing genius.