See News10 For the past several months, Teri Wells has lived in a swimming pool preparing for one of the most grueling challenges known to swimming- cross the English Channel.
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“Swimmers ear is an infection of your ear canal. Not using q tips and keeping your ear canal dry can help prevent these infections. Do not put things in your delicate ear canal that will strip out the protective wax.”
In Manhattan Dance School by Alex Shchukin. Darn, why couldn’t we get some move with both feet on the ground!? :-)
The young man is making a name for himself on team with a large group of girls. Go Wyatt, you are braver that most boys!
“Four Birds A Boating crew member Sarah Weldon competes in her first ever open water swim.” Really nicely made video!
Promotion spot featuring Pieter van den Hoogenband and Alain Bernard. Excited yet? EUROSPORT : Promotion Spot SWIMMING BARCELONA from EUROSPORT – STARTEAM on Vimeo.
Read Shanghaiist Three men have been arrested after a company executive drowned in Guangzhou during an exercise in which he was repeatedly held underwater to help ‘overcome his fear’. The man, surnamed Huang, had paid 30,000 yuan for the training course. The three organisers have been held by police for accidentally causing the death of the man. The men avoided being charged for murder because they were apparently too stupid to realise that holding someone underwater repeatedly could kill them. 3000 Chinese Yuan is about 4900 US Dollars, see Google See also Shanghai Daily Huang, the boss of a local…
Just a photo from the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Mie Østergaard Nielsen (DEN, silver), Olivia Smoliga (USA, gold) and Simona Baumrtova (CZE, bronze), see the result list here. Fun trying to ‘catch a flash’ :-)
Photo of Ian Thorpe swimming in the ‘cool waters of the Bosphorus’, when backing the 2013 Bosphorus Cross-Continental open water swim in Istanbul and the Istanbul 2020 Olympic bid. Ian Thorpe BoÄŸaz'ın serin sularında! pic.twitter.com/a4dBQmGqFn— Ä°stanbul 2020 (@istanbul2020TR) July 6, 2013 Hürriyet Daily News writes that even if he just swam a short ‘show swim’, he said it was really hard to swim against the current and in the sea that was so cold, the 10-time Olympic medalist shivering after 15 minutes. National Olympic Committee has some interesting but for us non-Turkish speaking cryptic details (in Turkish) here about him…