Year: 2014
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Swim coach Mark Walker notified of pending lifetime ban
Walker was the former CEO and head coach for Excel Aquatics. After USA Swimming notified Walker of their intention to ban him, he was terminated from Excel in May. A spokesman for USA Swimming would not comment on why they intend to ban Walker, but a spokesman for Metro police confirmed that in January two…
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Panic as hammerhead shark charges swimmers at Florida beach
A Florida beach cleared out – with the exception of a woman and lifeguard who tried to save her – when a shark was spotted heading straight toward swimmers on Tuesday afternoon. The panic of the 10-foot shark and people screaming from the pier was caught on tape. “This just happened off Navarre Beach Pier……
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Virginia swimmer fights bacteria eating away at his leg
Doctors say a Stafford, Virginia man will be able to keep his leg after contracting dangerous bacteria while swimming in the Potomac River. For the Fourth of July holiday, Joe Wood and his wife Jeana visited family near Callao, Virginia and swam in a Potomac River inlet. “We were jumping off the dock, throwing sticks…
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Dan Wallace: cries of freedom were not a political statement
Just a few months ago Dan had ended up in a US jail overnight after urinating on a police car while celebrating his birthday. It could have spelled the end of his Commonwealth dreams but instead the brush with the law spurred him on to win. Dan said: “There were cries of ‘freedom’ when I…
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‘You never swim a perfect race’
With the conclusion of the swimming for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Cameron McEvoy and James Magnussen are already looking to improve their strokes for the Pan Pacific championships in mid-August. See brisbanetimes
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German scientist starts four-week swim down Rhine river
A German chemistry professor started on Monday a gruelling four-week solo swim down the Rhine river for the benefit of science and the environment. Self-confessed “mad professor” Andreas Fath, who set off on his 1,231-kilometre (764-mile) adventure with a splash into Switzerland’s Lake Toma, plans to swim through Germany and France to reach the river’s…
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Three siblings’ attempt to swim the English Channel falls short of a first
In the end, the odds were too much for the three Wahls. Devin and Danielle Wahl completed their English Channel swim Sunday. The 21-mile crossing in 64-degree water was more harrowing and painful than they expected. Their younger brother Dustin was forced to quit 13 miles in, overcome with cramps and nausea. The goal of…
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High dive fails terribly as swimmer changes mind
Footage taken from Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, USA, shows a girl on the edge of the middle board, about to dive in to the swimming pool below. But in a last-second change of heart, she grabs onto the railings to stop herself – even though she’s already too late to stop. What happens next is…
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Prince George Learns to Swim
It’s the biggest little secret and now it can be revealed: Everyone’s favorite prince is learning to swim. Like his father and grandfather before him, Prince George is experiencing the royal splash-about with his mother at the world’s most exclusive gym, the Buckingham Palace pool. Kate was seen driving in to the grounds of Buckingham…