Month: March 2021
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How Clean Are Our Public Pools? | Talking Point | Full Episode
We are all too familiar with stories of people jumping into the pool without showering or peeing in the pool. But we have never paid much heed to poor hygiene behavior at swimming pools because our pools contain Chlorine right? Chlorine is meant to disinfect our swimming pools and is rigorously checked as part of…
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Swimmers ‘Can’t Stop Smiling’ as England’s Outdoor Sports Venues Reopen
Swimmers flocked to the UK’s outdoor pools on Monday (March 29), as England’s stay-at-home lockdown order ended.
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UK’s First Cold Water Swimming Championships
The first UK Cold Water Swimming Championships, held over the weekend of 21-22 January 2006, launched the centenary celebrations for the Lido and the South London Swimming Club. The event had been inspired by a trip to Finland the previous year by a small group of intrepid SLSC swimmers who took part in the ice…
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Ice Swimming in Finland
Ice swimming paired with Finnish sauna is very popular in Finland! I decided to cut a hole in the ice and give it a try myself! Heating the sauna and cutting the hole in the ice was the easy part, now I just had to gather the strength to jump in the ice-cold water for…
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Massive Gator Gets Trapped on Lanai Before Taking a Swim in Family’s Pool
Tim Kelly had quite the surprise Friday morning when he heard growling while getting his morning cup of coffee. He turned around to see a massive alligator — between 7 and 9 feet — on the lanai of his Pinellas County home.
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Philly Tough: This Swimmer Is Putting in the Work To Achieve Her Olympic Dream | NBC10
NBC10’s cameras got to see the grueling workout that swimmer Ally McHugh puts in as she strives to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. NBC10’s Keith Jones shares Ally’s Drive for Gold and how a “Philly mentality†shaped her.
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US Swimmer Who Went Missing Weeks Ago Found Naked and Shivering in Storm Water Drain
A swimmer has been found alive in a storm water drain almost 50km from the body of water where she went missing – three weeks ago. Lyndsey Jane Kennedy, 43, was last seen on March 3 in a canal near her boyfriend’s home in Palm Beach County, Florida, The New York Post reported. On Tuesday around 9…
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Louisville Native Brooke Forde Captures Fourth National Swimming Title
Louisville native Brooke Forde is getting ready to dive into the familiar waters of Lakeside Swim Club. The Stanford star has been coming here for her whole life. “To come right back here, it’s sort of easy to reflect on my journey,” Forde said. It’s one that’s led her to four national titles as a…
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France’s Arthur Guerin-Boeri Sets World Record Swimming Under Ice | AFP
French freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri sets the world record for the longest distance traveled under a sheet of frozen ice with a single breath, swimming 120 meters in Finland’s Lake Sonnanen, north of Helsinki. Read for instance CTV News