Month: June 2013
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British Gas Swimming Championships 2013 – Day 1
British Gas Swimming Championships 2013 – Day One: heats and live finals recorded at Ponds Forge on 26 June 2013.
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Lessons help prepare swimmers for water emergencies
Experts who teach swimming lessons say it only takes 20 seconds for a swimmer to run into trouble in the water — and what happens in those 20 seconds and make the difference between life and death
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Phoenix police officer saves swimmer in Hawaii
Woman was being pulled out to sea by current. Police released showing the woman jump into the water then almost immediately begin to struggle. See azfamily.com
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Learn to Swim as an Adult
Atlanta Swimming very own Matt Murphy and Friend of Atlanta Swimming Brenda Tran sat down with Tacoma Perry of Fox 5 Atlanta to talk about why it is never to late for every adult to learn to swim.
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Tyler McGill aims for Rio 2016
Read WSFA and The News-Gazette Olympic gold medalist Tyler McGill says he hopes to swim in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But it’s not as if the 25-year-old Champaign Central product has booked a hotel suite in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. “I’m just going year by year. It’d be really difficult to…
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Bob Bowman, Coach and Cook, Puts Swimming Back on the Front Burner
Read The New York Times After Phelps won the last 6 of his 22 overall medals at the 2012 London Games, Bowman took a nine-month sabbatical from coaching. He passed the time he normally spent in the broiler oven that is the pool deck over a hot stove, trying to duplicate the meals he watched…
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Stephanie Rice to concentrate on business venture after Celebrity Apprentice victory
See The Herald Sun Stephanie Rice has put off deciding about her swimming future until the end of the year after winning Celebrity Apprentice Australia. Instead, Rice, the Olympic champion will concentrate on her Freestyle kids’ swimwear business venture for the remainder of 2013.
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California man spends 7 hours in ocean to avoid drug arrest
Read Fox News and see The Huffington Post A California man wanted on a felony drug warrant surrendered to authorities Monday after spending more than seven hours swimming in the ocean off the coast of San Diego to evade arrest. Fox 5 reports 46-year-old John Michael White was approached by police officers Sunday night while…