Year: 2014
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Every Child Can Swim – Team Scotland
Scottish Swimming would like to ensure that #everychildcanswim. Watch medallists from the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow talk about when they learned to swim and why it is important for every child to learn to swim.
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To school, here, involves daily swim for young Gujaratis
At 7 am, Geeta Baria, age 16, is ready for school. She is neatly dressed in a white-coloured salwar kameez, her long hair is braided. Now, for her daily swim. Along with a hundred of her classmates, Geeta is waiting on the banks of the river that separates villages like hers in Central Gujarat from…
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Ellie Simmonds Meets David Walliams
Paralympic double gold medallist Ellie Simmonds OBE meets up with David Walliams to talk about their shared love for swimming, her interest in dance and Little Britain David Walliams is taking part in SwimBritain this year, and anyone who signs up can be in with the chance to join his team at the London Aquatics…
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Michelle Wie & Chad Le Clos reveal their heroes
YOG ambassadors Michelle Wie and Chad Le Clos talk about their sporting heroes in the build up to the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.
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Happy dog helps people get into the pool
Lifeguard Lab “Toyo” helps people get into the pool. I know one or two swimmers who could use a dog like that, especially before morning practice. Seen on Google+ http://youtu.be/VVu4f5cl4n4
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See Carbon Dioxide Narcosis Hallucinations That A Freediver Experiences
Guillaume Néry is a champion freediver, and his sport exposes practitioners to carbon dioxide narcosis, which can lead to, among other symptoms, powerful hallucinations. This short film is inspired by Néry’s experiences and the things he thinks he sees during a deep water dive. See io9
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Surfing’s Got This Little Guy’s Seal of Approval
Mathew Stanley captured this GoPro footage of a baby seal climbing on his board and playing with him and a friend in the water. We caught up with Matt to get the low down on what happened: “Me and my friend Andrew Flounders were out enjoying some summer waves when this little guy came along…
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Polar bear cub goes for first swim
Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub explores the zoo’s Big Polar Bear Habitat for the first time and gets ready for his summer swim. Humphrey, born in November, seems a little shy about jumping in off the rocks, but he wades in and chomps on some rushing water like a pro. See USA Today See also…
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Funding risk for underperforming Kiwis at Glasgow 2014
High Performance Sport New Zealand, which allocates government funding for elite sport, will carry out a reviews of all the sports it funds that competed in Glasgow. Triathlon failed to win a medal in Glasgow and swimming relied on Lauren Boyle and para swimmer Sophie Pascoe to win medals. Both sports each received about $2…