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This weeks theme on SevenSuperGirls is Expectation vs Reality! Kaelyn shows you a bunch of different expectations and realities about competitive swimming, since she’s a swimmer! From waking up super early, to crazy hard sets at practice, to forgetting things in her gear bag, stay tuned to find out all the crazy different things Kaelyn talks about! https://youtu.be/QeS8ZuYfrCE

Life as a professional athlete (Swimmer) is incredible but it’s not all glamour – here’s a story about my latest drug testing experience! I highly support drug testing though as I want to compete in a clean sport! https://youtu.be/HpAx9WEwBK0

We’ve teamed up with Eurosport to raise awareness of the benefits of incorporating swimming into regular physical training routines. The ‘Swim2Run’ four-part mini documentary series follows the journey of amateur runners Sarah, and Kerry, as they prepare to run the London Marathon 2017. Three-time British triathlon champion, Annie Emmerson, has created training programmes for the runners and leads the marathon coaching. https://youtu.be/1TU43suYcoU https://youtu.be/beQTobVUL9E https://youtu.be/I3AlR_T1xsM

A 17-year-old boy died Tuesday morning after he was injured while cliff-diving at a lime rock quarry in Ocala on Monday, making him the second teenager in two months to die from injuries they suffered while trespassing to swim at Marion County swimming  holes, deputies said. Trey Austin Dagwan Cardozo, of Largo, was found unresponsive at the quarry on Northwest Gainesville Road around 3:45 p.m. Monday before he was taken to Ocala Regional Medical Center, where he died from his injuries Tuesday morning, deputies said. Read Click Orlando https://youtu.be/hBp2LPFydsE

Dramatic cellphone video shows strangers linked, forming a human chain. Five people grew to 15 and eventually, around 80 joined hands to reach exhausted victims of a current and pass them, one by one, to safety. Mark Strassmann reports. https://youtu.be/6DOTIH6E4Q8 https://youtu.be/bMyXSxwWEus https://youtu.be/h5I6lecv9JY

My main focus for the year, what my girlfriend is doing, cinematic swimming, my first race of the year and possible merch? https://youtu.be/YMabqV51VlQ

Published on Jul 4, 2017 – Last week I went to Eindhoven to capture part of the Dutch Swimming team on their way to the World Championships in Budapest. https://youtu.be/VR_l9PvpTCM

The minutes tick away in swimming’s equivalent of purgatory: it’s the last call room. For some it must feel like hell. But for Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú this is a space of serenity. This is a space where she starts to embrace victory, drawing strength in her pursuit of gold. Why? Because the 28-year-old believes races are defined by mentality, to the extent that they are largely settled before swimmers have even entered the pool. “I do believe that basically in the last call room before the race … it’s pretty much done,” Hosszú tells CNN Sport ahead of the 17th…

Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 23 Olympic golds and 39 world records in the pool, will test his speed against a Great White Shark. Phelps said, “I guess it was more exhilarating than really anything that maybe I’ve done outside of a pool, and I think that was something that surprised me the most.” To prepare for the show, Phelps swam with the team of the Bimini Shark Lab to give him a crash course to “teach him how to safely dive with sharks — including how to stay calm when a hammerhead swims two feet…

Budapest, Kazan, Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong have submitted bids for the 2022 and 2024 World Swimming Championships (25m), the International Swimming Federation (FINA) has announced following a meeting of its ruling Bureau in Budapest. The FINA Bureau also awarded Hungarian capital Budapest, which pulled out of the race for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games earlier this year, the 2018 World Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships. The four candidates for the two editions of the World Swimming Championships (25m), known as the World Short Course Championships, are also bidding to host the FINA World Aquatics Convention. The host for each…