Month: April 2014
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Ingvild Snildal retires
See nrk.no, there is a nice video interview with her also, in Norwegian. Ingvild Snildal can’t find the motivation again. Therefore, one of Norway’s best swimmers ever retires at the age of 25. ‘The last half year I have felt that I am comfortable as a normal person who isn’t an elite athlete, Ingvild Snildal…
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Star or moon, 13-year-old Japanese swimmer aims to shine in pool
Read The Japan News There are high hopes that a new swimming star will emerge at this month’s Japan national swimming championships, although “star†might not be the appropriate word for 13-year-old Runa Imai. Imai, whose first name is based on the word Luna, the Roman goddess embodying the moon, finished third in the women’s…
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Parents and student defend bear crawl coach
See KENS5 A group of parents and students came to the defense of a high school coach who they said did no wrong in making swimmers do bear crawls on the track. In a story KENS 5 brought you first on Monday, a former swimmer at Reagan High School in the Northeast ISD said the…
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63-year-old woman killed by shark during daily swim
Read for instance CTV News and see Brisbane Times A large shark killed a woman near her terrified husband and friends as they took their daily morning swim Thursday off a popular Australian east coast beach, police said. Christine Armstrong, 63, was taken by the shark as she attempted to swim the 600 metres between…
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Terrifying video of man trapped in cave as it fills with water
Panic sets in as getting wedged on a radged rock inside a narrow tube underground, while its filling with water, is a proper stupid thing to do… Worst caving experience ever….
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Norwegian Teens Rewrite Record Books On Day 1 Of SC Champs
See tv2.no The Norwegian Short Course Champs started with a bang Thursday, with youngsters clocking a total of six Norwegian records, nine Norwegian junior records and two world records for disabled people. 17-year-old Henrik Christiansen demolished Gard Kvale’s 7:50.45 Norwegian record in the 800 freestyle from back in 2005, with a time of 7:43.26 now.…
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Grant Hackett’s former coach says team officials gave Olympian Stilnox
Read The Guardian Grant Hackett’s former coach says the Olympic swimming champion’s Stilnox addiction is the price he paid for his success in the pool. Hackett’s long-time mentor Denis Cotterell says the triple Olympic gold medallist was given the sleeping medication by team officials who didn’t tell him it was addictive until he’d been taking…
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Grant Hackett back on track after Stilnox rehab: ‘I’m proud I got help’
See Sydney Morning Herald, ninemsn, ABC, news.com.au Olympic swimming champion Grant Hackett has left rehab saying he feels proud he had the courage to seek treatment for a sleeping pill addiction.The triple gold medallist spoke about his experience at Los Angeles Airport on Wednesday for the first time since checking himself into a US rehab…
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2014 Australian Swimming Championships – McEvoy & Coutts
Highlights from the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships, here Cameron McEvoy talking about the men’s 200 meter freestyle and Alicia Coutts talking about the women’s 100 butterfly.