Month: February 2016
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Ian Thorpe joins athletes calling for an end to homophobia in sport
Six champions united at the Mardi Gras Film Festival to share their stories of coming out and changes they want to see in their sporting codes. Audience members listened Sunday evening to Ian Thorpe, Matthew Mitcham, Sally Shipard, Daniel Kowalski, Shelly Gorman-Sandie and Casey Conway at a special screening of Out To Win: a film…
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Ian Thorpe to host new ABC exposé on bullying
Aussie Olympic swimming great Ian Thorpe will open up about his own experience of being bullied as a teenager in a three-part documentary which aims to tackle all sides of the issue of bullying in schools. “More than a quarter of school children in Australia claim to have been bullied on a regular basis, which…
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Mark your calendar: LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2017 in Copenhagen
13 -17 December 2017. These are the dates of the LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships in Royal Arena the new state of the art multi-purpose arena in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. When the Danish Swimming Federation, Sport Event Denmark and Copenhagen in the autumn 2015 won the LEN European Short Course Championships to…
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TCU Swimmer Evan Schmitzberger Overcoming Adversity
After a near death experience and diagnosis with a form of heart disease (ARVC), TCU swimmer Evan Schmitzberger has a new role with the team and a new look on life.
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How Moken children see with amazing clarity underwater – Inside the Human Body – BBC One
Moken sea gypsies in Thailand have an extraordinary ability to overrule an automatic reflex of the eye which allows them to see with amazing clarity under water. But recent studies show that any child can learn this trick.
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Freediving Sunken City
Amazing freedive through the ruins of a sunken city, performed by one of the last free-roaming Sea Nomads left, on the way back from a Project Moken Expedition.
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Racehorse Rebel Rover survives two-hour, 11km swim in Brisbane
A racehorse has survived a two-hour swim, covering 11km, after being scared during a training run on a beach in Brisbane, Australia. Rebel Rover was being trained in chest-high water at Sandgate beach when he unseated his rider and headed deeper. The five-year-old gelding was picked up by the Brisbane Water Police and a marine…
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LadyXsize talks about Swim London 2016
Radio and TV presenter, Nana Akua, (aka LadyXsize) has signed up to take part in the Swim London 2016 project which aims to give more than 200 adults who don’t currently swim, the opportunity to learn. She is also aiming to be part of a special relay event to be held during the London European…
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Close call with shark caught on camera
A swimmer got quite the surprise when he nearly swam into a shark. Sergey Sverdlov caught the encounter on camera. https://youtu.be/_qj-twRQUV0