Month: August 2018
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With pools closed for the summer, swimmers head to ponds and swimming holes
Many public pools have already closed for the season, but temperatures in the 90s had people heading to local ponds.
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Meet Jack: champion swimmer
Jack is a champion swimmer and all round great guy. We love having him as part of Autism Swim’s community.
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Epic Channel swim ends with plastics warning
Record-breaking endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has revealed he only saw “a few fish†during his 49-day swim of the English Channel, with plastic plaguing every beach he saw from Land’s End to Dover
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Goggles
New goggles ‘usually’ have an anti-fog coating inside the lenses. Who knew? When cleaning their goggles, swimmers often rub the inside of their goggles with their finger or a towel to clean them to help prevent fogging. This de-fogging method may actually do more damage than anything to the anti-fog coating. What should you do…
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12-year-old Baltimore girl drowned in ‘no swimming’ area of Sandy Point State Park
A 12-year-old Baltimore girl drowned Tuesday at Sandy Point State Park after being pulled under by a current in a “no swimming†area, Maryland Natural Resources Police said Wednesday. Rescue crews found Kaniya Kenly’s body about 40 yards off shore at about 11 p.m., after nearly five hours of searching. At a news conference Wednesday morning…
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Olympic Champion Swimmer Uses Dogsitter, Comes Home To Find Two Shirtless Guys On Couch With Lube And Camera
Former Olympic swimmer and two-time gold medalist Klete Keller used the app Wag to find a dogsitter, and very much regretted it when he came home to find two shirtless men on his couch with “personal lubricant†and a camera. Keller spoke with Colorado Springs–based Fox 21 News and described the scene when he arrived home. His…
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Lewis Pugh becomes first person to swim English Channel length
The 48-year-old finished the 560km (348 mile) gruelling swim from Land’s End in Cornwall to Dover in Kent in 49 days. He was greeted at Shakespeare Beach by Environment Secretary Michael Gove. The environmental campaigner and UN Patron of the Oceans began the challenge on 12 July, swimming 10 to 20km (six to 12 miles)…
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WILD SWIM | In collaboration with Teepee Films
In a world of increasing pressures, it’s easy to let problems manifest. German triathlete Liz Kellerer takes us to the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands to show us how wild swimming can help lead to both a healthy body and mind.
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12-year-old boy! The youngest-ever swimmer to cross Lake Ohrid
‘Marko Pejcinoski, the youngest swimmer who swam the Lake Ohrid (Sveti Naum – City port).’ https://youtu.be/lLTW5Wem3-s