Month: August 2015
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How Captain Matthew Webb Made Swimming Cool
The 19th-century swimming sensation loved water so much it eventually killed him. But first, 140 years ago today, he swam the English Channel, catapulting himself into fame and his favorite sport into respectability. Read Atlas Obscura via Neatorama
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Live Stream and Results from the Singapore 2015 World Junior Swimming Championships
Live Stream:Â eurovisionsports.tv/fina Start lists & Results:Â omegatiming.com Live Timing: omegatiming.com Web Site: fina-singapore2015.com FINA Page: fina.org
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Rovio Partners With SwimOutlet.com For Angry Birds Line Of Aquatics Products
SwimOutlet.com, the web’s most popular swim shop, and Rovio, creators of Angry Birdsâ„¢ have agreed to a licensing partnership that will see SwimOutlet.com create a range of swimming and aquatics products for both boys and girls starting in Fall 2015. The products will highlight Rovio’s Angry Birdsâ„¢ line for boys and will emphasize the Angry…
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Schooling Joseph Schooling
The parents of Singapore’s top swimmer Joseph Schooling tells the Straits Times why they sent Joseph for lessons and recounts the day they started taking his swimming seriously.
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Google doodle pays tribute to Duke Kahanamoku
See google.com/doodles The story of Duke Kahanamoku–the Hawaiian who, in 1912, first drew the world’s collective gaze upon the art of surfing–reads like mythology. Born in Honolulu in 1890, he is credited in over a dozen feature films, surfed the world’s most imposing swells before Californians knew what surfing was, won five Olympic medals in…
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Ridgewood teen makes history by becoming 1st to swim 21 miles across New York Bight
Open-water swimming sensation Charlotte Samuels made history on Saturday by becoming the first person to swim 21 miles across the New York Bight. Samuels, 17, began her journey at approximately 7:20 a.m. on Long Island’s Atlantic Beach and finished on the northern edge of Sea Bright, N.J., at 4:50 p.m. Though the Ridgewood teen had…
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Joseph Schooling’s quest for perfection
It was Aug 8, the day of the 100m butterfly final, his last race at the Fina World Championships and that was when Joseph Schooling came closest to the perfect swim he had been chasing in his career. But the most extraordinary day of his 20 years had begun just like any other day. Said…
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Mama bear, 5 cubs take over backyard swimming pool
 A family of bears threw a pool party in the backyard of a New Jersey home earlier this week. The mom and five cubs splashed around in the pool, played with rafts and checked out the swing set. “I thought they would get a drink or just drink out of it for a minute and…