Month: December 2022
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Swimmers Run Into Cold Suffolk Sea for Christmas Swim | The Independent
Brave swimmers braced themselves for the cold as they ran into the sea in Suffolk for the Christmas Day swim. This footage shows the festive scene on Lowestoft beach as locals dressed up as elves and in Santa hats splashed into the water. Hardy revelers across the country took part in the traditional dip on…
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Swimmers Take the Plunge at Freezing Ardrossan Beach Raising Money for Charity | The Scottish Sun
Grey Dippers raise over £24,000 by swimming in the Firth of Clyde at Ardrossan South Beach. A team of wild swimmers brave the bracing Boxing Day cold to complete the last of more than 300 charity dips to raise more than £22,000 for a food bank. Members of the Grey Dippers fundraising group have been…
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People Dive in for Boxing Day Winter Swim in Prague | Arirang News
And finally over to the Czech Republic, where the capital Prague hosted its annual Boxing Day swim. Hundreds of winter swimmers braved the chilly waters of the city’s Vltava River on Monday. Participants swam races of 100, 300, and 750 meters in the river, where the water temperature was around 5 degrees Celsius. The Boxing…
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File: Men Can Compete in Artistic Swimming at 2024 Paris Olympics | CGTN Sports Scene
Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday. Approval from the International Olympic Committee means a maximum of two men can be selected among eight athletes in the team event that is due to include 10 nations. Artistic swimming, formerly known as…
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Indian Olympic Swimmer Maana Patel Shares About Her Meet With Prime Minister Narendra Modi | A Night Before
India’s Olympic Swimmer Maana Patel talks about things that she wants to feel as a human and not as a swimmer. She talks about the time when she met our honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reminisces about the time when she became the youngest and fastest swimmer in backstroke swimming across the country. Not…
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Champion’s First Swimmer Tabbed Student-Athlete of Week | WKBN27
Some sports can act as a stress release for many student athletes. “To be able to come here, and no matter what I’m dealing with mentally or physically, I can put my face in the water and I can swim and I can kind of forget about all my troubles,” Champion Senior Riley Robinette said.…
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True Story | The Swimmers | Netflix
An inside look at the incredible true story that inspired The Swimmers film and the process of bringing it to cinematic life on screen.