Swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker has had a golden year in the pool, with records as well as medals lighting up an incredible 2018! https://youtu.be/gvMGuJyoRb8
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A developing drama on YouTube … (I didn’t even realize that people kept hedgehogs as pets) https://youtu.be/zjz0A_HsbYU https://youtu.be/85FcxfjKqgI https://youtu.be/vjWj-Qg7Uz0
Sunday, September 2 marked 100 days to go until the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Hangzhou, China, December 11 – 16, 2018. Around 1000 elite athletes from 170 countries, thousands of visitors and spectators and many international media representatives will take part in this Championships, traveling from all over the world to join the most important FINA swimming meet of 2018. Read more in the press release from FINA https://youtu.be/rwtMrWBA_xg
Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee was named the Olympic Council of Asia’s Most Valuable Player at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang by the OCA on Sunday. Ikee, 18, won six gold and two silver medals at the GBK Aquatic Centre in Jakarta to become the first female athlete in any sport to win six gold medals at a single Asian Games. With eight medals in total, Ikee equalled the record medal haul in a single Asian Games held by North Korean shooter So Gin-man at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, India. She also became the first…
St. Lawrence River boathouse jumping https://youtu.be/WC-A-067jFY
Iraqi civilians who lost limbs during the government offensive against ‘Daesh’ group militants in the northern city of Mosul swim during a competitive sports event sponsored by the Kuwaiti government in Arbil, Iraq. https://youtu.be/ayYbtOwmGys
A record three hundred and seventy (370) swimmers turned up for the third edition of the Dolphin club organized “Fast and Furious†championship held at Gem Cambridge in Butabika. The one day event pits short swimming races with a view to give the swimmers an opportunity to gain experience in all versions of the sport. Thirteen clubs took part in today’s event that organisers believe was more competitive than the first two editions. https://youtu.be/vuvHOD19sss
They call themselves the Bold and the Beautiful, a group of hundreds of swimmers who gather every morning on Manly Beach in a small Australian coastal town near Sydney. Every member wears a hot pink cap and swims 750 meters to the neighboring beach of Shelly, and back again. For hours starting at 7 a.m., a sea of pink bobbing heads of all genders and ages, arching arms, and flutter kicks can be seen moving like a school of fish, stride by stride, across waves and around rocks and jagged bends. “I wish I could join them,†I whispered to…
North Carolina beachgoers are accustomed to seeing a lot of different creatures in the ocean, but an alligator turns heads. Numerous Facebook posts on Friday noted the presence of an alligator swimming in the surf at Oak Island. Chuck McCullen of Cary said he and his family saw a crowd of people walking down the shoreline watching something in the water. He thought it was a turtle. It wasn’t. Read The News & Observer https://youtu.be/KW8ZtAO0Uac
Indonesia will bid to host the 2032 Olympics following the success of the Asian Games held there over the past two weeks, President Joko “Jokowi†Widodo said in a surprise announcement Saturday that highlights the rising ambition of the giant but long underperforming Southeast Asian nation. Read The Washington Post https://youtu.be/6tGL27_WREc