Month: September 2018
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From Freestyle to Free Time: Federica Pellegrini
Sometimes you get used to people being part of the landscape, their presence is a constant, immutable and irreversible. Sport gives that illusion from time to time, only for time itself to enjoy the last laugh. The outpouring of sadness that greets footballers leaving the stage for the last time seems to be most poignant…
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Overcoming Injury with Amanda Weir
Amanda Weir talks about her path back from injury and the mental challenges she faced on that journey.
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The USA Olympic Training center | Cody Miller Vlog_55
The knee situation… The Olympic Training Center. How did I get here? What I’ve been up to.
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Chad Le Clos opens Swimming Academy | Youth Olympic Games
South Africa’s most decorated Olympian and YOG Ambassador Chad Le Clos is now opening the CleC Academy. Le Clos wants to give something back and created an academy for the next generation in Swimming. This academy wants to speak to the changing needs of the young people today but most importantly, keep up the fun…
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Mental Health for Athletes with Stacy Michael-Miller
Stacy Michael-Miller of USA Swimming discusses the importance of mental health for athletes.
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Cullen Jones Teaches His Mom How To Swim
Cullen Jones had the opportunity to teach his mom to swim. This moment came years after his mother put Jones in swim lessons to make sure he was water safe.
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Why is there an Arctic beluga whale swimming in the Thames?
The people of Tilbury in Essex received a shock this afternoon as a beluga whale was spotted making its way up the River Thames. The mammal was seen off Coalhouse Fort near Gravesend and Kent’s Shorne marshes, where ecologist Dave Andrews tweeted his sighting. “For anyone twitching the beluga, it’s been feeding around the barges for the last hour and hasn’t…
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Hannah Miley dropped from world-class squad and loses funding
Hannah Miley has been dropped from British Swimming’s world-class performance squad, dealing a huge blow to her hopes of reaching a fourth and final Olympics at Tokyo 2020. The 29-year-old, who loses her Lottery funding, was the biggest name missing from the 54-strongsquad list which is headed by Olympic champion Adam Peaty and Scotland’s 
European…
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Former West Fargo coach used training methods incorrectly, swimming coach says
A swimming coach whose training methods are at the center of a controversy involving the West Fargo girls swim team has issued a response. On Sept. 14, Ronald Hehn was fired as the girls swimming and diving coach at West Fargo High School, after he posted a Facebook video of a student manager attempting a…