Year: 2014
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Local swim team ‘dives’ for food donations
See WHAS11 The Lakeside Seahawks swim team has joined forces with a local charity to make a difference in the community. Inside the Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center, there’s much more to the average swim meet. Young swimmers are groomed to become champions. “I already swam the 200 free and the 200 fly. I still…
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Behold baby elephants Baylor and Tupelo playing in a kiddie pool
See for instance zooborns.com, back in 2011 Recently, Houston Zoo keepers gave Baylor and Tupelo a big kiddie pool. Now that Baylor weighs more than 1100 pounds and Tupelo weighs more than 600 pounds, the small, inflatable pools do not last longer than 5 minutes without getting popped. The babies now get a family size pool which…
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Team Speedo – Race Your Dreams
“Don’t just chase your dreams — race them.” Featuring Tyler Clary, Jessica Hardy, Nathan Adrian, Dana Vollmer and Tyler Clary. http://youtu.be/s8BqJkwEZDs
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Canberra
Swimming Australia has been publishing videos pretty much every day last week, in anticipation of the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials. Last week was Canberra, featuring Alicia Coutts and James Roberts among others. Monday Memory Tuesday Tips
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Freediver Blacks Out During World Record Attempt | Barely Breathing With Annelie Pompe
See EPIC TV Annelie Pompe hates pool training. That’s unfortunate given that her occupation is professional freediving. Not long after summiting the lofty altitudes of Aconcagua in Argentina, she’s back in the pool preparing for another world depth record in freediving. The last time she was in this position she only had two months to…
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Freediver survives orca dragging him under for 40+ seconds
Read The New Zealand Herald Levi Gavin, 23, was collecting kina and crayfish at Horahora Estuary, 30km east of Whangarei on February 10, when an orca grabbed a catch bag attached to his right arm. It dragged him beneath the water for more than 40 seconds before a rope connecting him to the bag came…
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TODAY: Cyril Baldock 70 and swimming the English Channel
See ninemsn Cyril Baldock will soon be the oldest man to swim the English Channel at 70 years of age, 29 years after his first English Channel crossing which he took part in when he was 41.
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Grant Hackett in half-naked search for son at the Melbourne Crown
See for instance 9NEWS Grant Hackett was barefoot and shirtless when he burst into the foyer of Melbourne’s Crown hotel-casino, searching for his four-year-old son. The panicked moment, captured on a mobile phone camera in the early hours of Saturday morning, began when the troubled former Olympian woke to find his son Jagger had gone…