Year: 2014
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet performed ‘in’ the Govanhill Baths
See glasgow.stv.tv We recently brought you the news that the Baths’ training pool will reopen at the venue next month, and events like Hamlet are designed to help reinvigorate the building and remind people of its potential. Mr Downie said: “We’ve got a lot planned here to help regenerate and restore the building. Hamlet and…
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Former Buffalo swim star confirmed dead after hot-air balloon crash
Read The Buffalo News The third body from a Virginia hot-air balloon crash was recovered this morning, making it a certainty that Natalie M. Lewis, a record-setting swimmer from Buffalo’s Nardin Academy, was among those who died in the disaster. Lewis, who went on to star in college competition, had been missing and presumed dead…
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Underwater aviation, flying to the ‘edge of darkness’
See CNET Strapped in with a five-point harness, and crammed into a space hardly bigger than me, I was comfortable, actually, and so off we went. Down, toward the edge of darkness. It was a gorgeous Thursday earlier this month, and I was sitting in the rear seat in the DeepFlight SuperFalcon, a two-person submersible…
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Mooresville woman bitten by shark while swimming with kids in SC
See wbtv.com A Mooresville woman is recovering after she was bitten by a shark while in the ocean near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Kimberly Popp says she was in the water about knee-deep on Tuesday afternoon at Coligny Beach when something hit her foot and she felt the bite. When she lifted her…
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Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel holds lessons for Grand Strand swim team
See WBTW A group of young swimmers on the Grand Strand got a chance to learn from an Olympic athlete Friday. 2012 Olympic silver medalist Elizabeth Beisel is in town for a clinic with the Myrtle Beach Riptides. WBTW-TV: News, Weather, and Sports for Florence, SC
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Scotland’s Dan Wallace suspended by Florida, faces Games axe after peeing on a police car
You might have read this story for instance on SwimVortex May 8th was suspended indefinetely due to a violation of team rules. “We are disappointed in some of the choices Dan Wallace made,” head coach Gregg Troy said in a statement released by Florida Athletics, without any nearer explanation of what caused the suspension. Now…
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SwimMAC coach David Marsh’s methods are challenging traditions
Read Charlotte Observer SwimMAC Carolina head coach David Marsh follows an unconventional training path that could help change the sport of swimming. A half-century of tradition has had swimmers in the pool by 5 a.m. to swim hundreds of laps daily. But Marsh doesn’t think it’s important to spend hours in the pool each day, amassing…