Year: 2014
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Doctor’s weight-loss order pushed her into the pool; now she’s a champ
Her doctor’s words shook her like an earthquake: “If you don’t lose weight, you won’t get to your 60th birthday.” Vivian Stancil, a retired Long Beach schoolteacher, was 50. She stood 5 feet tall and weighed 319 pounds. “A bowling ball wouldn’t even describe what I was,” Stancil says. “I could barely walk. But I…
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Scientists Identify First Swimming Dinosaur
A rich horde of fossils from the Sahara has revealed that the largest known predator to ever walk the earth was also a superb swimmer, overturning the common view that dinosaurs were terrestrial beasts. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, an international research team described how it had uncovered the partial skeleton…
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Hundreds of swimmers take a dive for Dublin’s Liffey Swim
First man home was Ger Wilkes, from Malahide and a member of North Dublin swimming club. “The hardest bit thinking people are coming up behind you, thinking, ‘Am I doing enough?’ I knew I was in the lead from about the Hal’penny Bridge. It was only a matter of hanging on then. O’Connell Bridge is…
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86 year-old swimmer with MS defies expectations
Sudbury’s Derald Balson competes in swimming at a national le​vel at the age of 86. That’s pretty impressive but consider also that he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis more than 40 years ago. Swimming using only his arms, he won two gold medals last month at the Canada 55 Plus Games in Strathcona County, Alberta.…
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CCTV footage shows swimmer rifling through purse
Police are appealing for information about this man who was caught on camera rifling through a purse a Birmingham swimming baths. See ITV
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Ukraine’s combat dolphins begin swimming for Russia
Kyiv wants its combat dolphins back, but now they’re swimming for Russia. Read Foreign Policy via KiyvPost http://youtu.be/P0mJqjcfGwM
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81-year-old Veteran to Swim from Alcatraz to Raise Money for Korean War Memorial
An 81-year-old Korean War veteran is making a big push to raise money for a local war memorial by making the one and a quarter mile swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco in the 19th annual Alcatraz Invitational on Sunday. Wally Stewart got in some final training laps at the Finley Aquatic Center in Santa…
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Sun Yang still shining bright after troubled year
Sun Yang has always been different from China‘s other top swimmers, as much a maverick as a pioneer. And not just because he is the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. Or that he spent time in jail. While most of China’s best swimmers prefer to keep a low profile, Sun…
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Lewis Pugh – Showreel
Lewis is the first to complete long distance swims in every one of the world’s oceans – including the waters around the melting ice cap. He’s witnessed retreating glaciers, coral bleaching and changing patterns of migration, and now focuses on raising awareness of the fragile maritime environment. He’s also swum across a lake on Mount…