Month: August 2019
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Mom says 12-year-old boy got E. coli after swimming in North Carolina waterfall
A 12-year-old boy who should be in school right now, is instead in isolation at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta battling E.coli.
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Danielle Kettlewell on The Stuart Watkins Podcast
Danielle Kettlewell is an Olympian, synchronised swimmer, author, speaker and coach. She has just released a new book called THE UNLIKELY OLYMPIAN: Step into your Fears to Achieve your Dreams.
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Eurosport links up with International Swimming League
Eurosport’s approach to telling the stories of Olympic athletes all year round will continue in the lead up to Tokyo 2020 with the acquisition of rights to the new International Swimming League (ISL) competition for the next two years. Two-year deal will see Eurosport screen the new International Swimming League All seven matches to be…
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Man Swimming at Ocean City Beach Struck and Killed by Large Wave
Ocean City officials say a 76-year-old swimmer died in a beach accident when a large wave knocked him down. Ocean City communications manager Jessica Waters said authorities responded to the beach Sunday for a report of a distressed swimmer. Waters said the man was in knee-deep water when he was knocked down by a large…
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Is it OK to swim in a river after heavy rain?
Swimming in a river after rain is something I’d always warn against, because run-off from fields and water from over-flowing drains end up in our waterways. Why then didn’t I heed my own advice? What happened? How did I get on swimming in the River Stour near Wimborne?
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Migrant drowns trying to ‘swim to England’ wearing plastic bottles to keep him afloat
An Iraqi migrant has drowned trying to swim to England wearing an improvised buoyancy aid made of plastic bottles. The unnamed man’s body was found at a wind farm off the coast of Zeebrugge in Belgium. He was identified using fingerprints and officials said they thought he had been refused asylum in Germany. West Flanders’…