Month: April 2015
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Floyd Mayweather Jr takes training for Pacquiao fight to swimming pool
Floyd Mayweather Jr. took his training for his upcoming megafight against Manny Pacquiao to the pool. Mayweather posted an Instagram video of himself doing boxing exercises in the pool before going for laps to swim with his strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, a former member of Pacquiao’s corner, overseeing his training. The WBA and…
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Finally Learning To Swim
It’s a life-saving skill many people learn as kids, but an alarming number of Americans say they don’t know how to swim. CBS2’s Alex Denis speaks with some people who are overcoming their fears and finding out the water is just fine.
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Hungry sea lion drags fisherman overboard
A man posing for a picture Sunday while holding his “trophy fish†was attacked by a sea lion which hauled him over the side of a boat into the water, a San Diego Fire-Rescue official said. The 62-year-old victim, who was not identified, was holding a fish posing for a picture near the Hyatt Mission…
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#AusChamps15 – Coaches Raving
Pool deck? Or dance floor? You be the judge… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRN0XHv0yuY #AusChamps15 #TeamGreenAndGold Posted by Australian Dolphins Swim Team on Monday, April 6, 2015
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Mieko Nagaoka: 100-year-old Japanese swimmer sets 1,500m record
A Japanese woman has become the first 100-year-old to complete a 1,500m freestyle swim in a 25m pool. Mieko Nagaoka, who only took up swimming at the age of 82, already holds the record in her age category for the same distance in a 50m pool. She completed the latest feat in just over one…
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Coming Soon – Beyond the Black Line
Beyond the Black Line is a program for our young female & male swimmers, teaching them the importance of a young persons journey through their teenage year growing up on pool deck.
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#AusChamps15 – Day 2 Highlights
Highlights from Day 2 of the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships.
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Michael Phelps will qualify for Rio Olympics: Cathy Bennett
Swimming legend Michael Phelps’ return to the sport is clearly not going as per plan, with the 29-year-old currently excluded from the USA swim team for the World Championships in Russia and the Pan-American Games in Toronto later this year after he was found guilty for a drunken-driving offence in September last year. However, Cathy…
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Grant Hackett finishes fourth in 200m final to claim relay spot at world titles
Grant Hackett missed out on a medal in the 200 metres freestyle final at the Australian swimming championships in Sydney on Sunday night, but his swim felt as good as a win for the Queenslander with his fourth place and time assuring he will go to the world championships. The former two times Olympic champion’s…