Month: September 2019
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LSU Swimming HC David Geyer is excited to see freshmen swimmers making waves this season
LSU Swimming Head Coach David Geyer sees big potential in team this season.
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Saving the pool to save the community | The Pool
Heywire winner Lauren Paynter, Nyah, Vic Across Australia, small towns are dying out. Unfortunately, so is mine. But when my local pool, the community hub for so many, was under threat of closure, I knew I had to do something. I still remember the first time I touched the bottom of the deep end and…
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The Fight For Parramatta Pool | The Pool
In its peak, Parramatta pool was open year-round and bringing in more than 1,100 people on a hot summer’s day. But in 2017 Parramatta’s only pool was demolished to make way for a $300 million football stadium. A new pool was promised by the state government, but Parramatta is still waiting. Join Parramatta resident Suzette…
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‘Magic’, ‘medicinal’ water keeping tourists and towns afloat | The Pool
Taking to the waters of a mineral pool is a human tradition stretching back thousands of years ago. Today, it’s often grey nomads seeking out the reputed healing powers of mineral pools and their bubbling waters.
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The way that athletes use pools for rehabilitation | The Pool
Every weekend our football stars run onto the turf across the country and battle. They collide at break-neck speed, tackles are made, marks are taken, there are winners, there are losers. Most of all there are many, many sore bodies and many, many sore egos.
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The ladies chain baths of the Illawarra | The Pool
By 1840’s the Ladies Chain Baths were a significant local tourist attraction in the Illawarra and a common subject on early twentieth-century postcards of Wollongong.
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Paradise – What is beneath the water? An ancient dreaming story | The Pool
Is there more to your local swimming hole? Located in the centre of Tamworth is “Galala†– Paradise, home to “Gariya†the rainbow serpent. Marc Sutherland shares the ancient old story of Gariya. Told since the beginning of time, passed down through generations this story tells of the importance of Aboriginal Lore and care for…
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Canoe polo in outback Australia 🛶 | The Pool
Benjamin Erin from Alice Springs’ Central Desert Canoe Club talks about a sport that “makes you go ‘what?’” https://youtu.be/t_2OfRJwju4
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