Year: 2019
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Concord Swim Team Learns It Will Need To Find A New Home
Susie Steimle reports on HOA ordering East Bay swim team to find a new community pool for its home base in 60 days
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Adam Peaty (Loughborough University) and British Swimming. Interview in Tenerife Top Training.
Adam Peaty (Loughborough University) and British Swimming. Interview in Tenerife Top Training. Today we have a chance to follow the training session of Adam Peaty and Loughborough University team. Adam George Peaty, MBE (born 28 December 1994) is a British competitive swimmer from England who specializes in breaststroke. He has represented Great Britain at the…
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Dive Into These Five Stories About Swimming
Ready to take the plunge? We’ve got five stories about swimming to share, including a trio about swimming with manta rays, whales and even jellyfish; one about a Navy SEAL who swam the entire length of the Mississippi River; and another about an Olympic gold medalist who is teaching kids how to swim in hopes…
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A suspected shark attack has been reported off the coast of North Carolina
Authorities say a 17-year-old girl was attacked while swimming at Fort Macon State Park and rushed to the hospital with severe injuries.
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Escape from Alcatraz: 76-year-old Naples man swims from famous prison for second time
Jim Zinger prefers swimming in frigid waters without a wet suit near a famous prison over confined and chlorine-infused pools. The Naples man — who turns 77 on June 12 — completed the same feat May 25 that he did 12 years prior by swimming the two-mile stretch of water that connects Alcatraz prison to mainland San Francisco. Zinger…
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Japan Swim Star Kosuke Hagino to Miss 2019 World Championships
Kosuke Hagino will not compete at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The 4-time Olympic medallist pulled out of the Japanese nationals in April and now he’ll miss the Worlds in July, a year before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. “Kosuke Hagino will not be competing at the World Championships this year,†Hagino’s management agency communicated…
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Vacationers Find Alligator Lounging on Alligator Pool Float at Their Miami Airbnb
Here are some places in Florida where you can reasonably expect to encounter an alligator: a storm sewer, the end of an airport runway, your local golf course. But this might be a first — while in town for a wedding, Georgia resident Dave Jacobs and his family spotted a gator casually chilling on an alligator-shaped pool float at…
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