Month: February 2014
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ICEA ROTTO SWIM 2014
The 2014 Rotto Swim is fast approaching and it is time to show your support to the ICEA Team. With your support we aim to raise $40,000 to fund the 2014 ICEA Waves Program in the Perth Metropolitan Area and inspire a greater understanding of Aboriginal people and culture in the local community. Click the…
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Riverton High School Swim Team Saves Lives
“As we reported earlier this week the Riverton High School team are being called heroes are saving the lives of 2 people who where in a head collision with an 18 wheeler on saturday. K2’s Michael Sevren spoke with them students… coaches and bus driver who put their lives at risk to save complete strangers.”…
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Brent Hayden – From Olympic Swimmer to Photographer
“Brent talks about his journey from retiring after the London 2012 Olympics to pursuing his photography.”
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Midmar swimmer’s body found
Read Sport24 The body of Herman van Straten who went missing during the Midmar Mile swim has been found, KwaZulu-Natal police said. “At about 16:20 (the body) surfaced about 800m from the starting line,” Captain Lolly Moodley said. He said the rescue dogs had respond “positively” just before the body was found and pointed in…
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Japanese widower learns to dive in bid to find remains of wife lost in 2011 tsunami
Read Mainichi On March 11, 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife Yuko to the tsunami. Almost three years later, he remains determined to find her, getting his diving license and planning to scour the Tohoku seaboard for her remains. “I will find my wife on my own power. I will bring her home,” says Takamatsu,…
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Behold how Derek Amato hit his head in a swim pool and became a musical savant
“Derek Amato is one of the world’s only acquired savants after a brain injury left him with the amazing ability to play piano.”
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Hungary reveals first pictures of the Budapest 2021 FINA World Champs Swimming Pool Complex
See FINA Aquatics World Magazine on Facebook Exclusive: here are the first pictures of the wonderful, new swimming pool complex in Budapest where the 6. FINA World Junior Swimming Championships (2017) and the 19. FINA World Championships (2021) will be held. The city’s would-be modern architectural icon will stand by the river Danube across Margaret…
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Watch how 4 East Germans swam to freedom with a police boat in pursuit
Incredible video via 22 words In 1961, the first person to ever be killed by the East German police as he attempted to escape was shot as he swam across the Spree, a river along a portion of the erstwhile Berlin wall. Over the years, hundreds of others tried it, too, risking death by drowning…
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British Swimming to appeal Olympic funding cuts
Read BBC and British Swimming British Swimming has notified UK Sport of its intention to appeal the withdrawal of funding from the women’s Olympic sports of Synchronised Swimming and Water Polo. UK Sport announced the decision to remove funding as a result of its annual investment review of summer Olympic and Paralympic sports, and British…