Author: rokur
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Hundreds brave the 2013 Cheltenham Lido Christmas Swim
See Clouchestershire Echo With temperatures around to around 3C (37.4F), more than 250 swimmers stripped down to brave the freezing pool. The water registered at 6.5C (43.7F), surprising colder than last year’s 7C (44.6F) considering the clear skies and sunny weather. Famous names took to the pool, including Gloucester Rugby’s Dan Murphy and Cheltenham mayor…
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Fancy a ‘perishing’ swim? – ITN coverage of the 1965 Serpentine Christmas Swim
See Channel 4 Covering the news on Christmas Day is always challenging – and was equally so in 1965 when ITN sent their roving reporter John Shearer to Hyde Park to interview [and join] the regular Serpentine race swimmers.
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UK cold water champ Colin Hill happy to take Siberian sub-zero pool plunge
Read The Westmorland Gazette “To go across to Siberia for a winter swimming race and compete against swimmers from South Africa, USA, Estonia and South America was amazing,†he said. “I have done a lot of cold water swimming in the Lake District but this was an extension of what I have done before, it…
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Brooke Bennett returns to competition, calls Janet Evans her inspiration
Read The Examiner Three-time Olympic gold medalist Brooke Bennett announced that she would return to swimming in an effort to qualify for open water swimming at the 2016 Olympic Games. Bennett was last seen competing at the Olympics in 2000, where she won gold in the 400- and 800-meter freestyle events. Before that, Bennett won…
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Season’s Greetings from Speedo
Featuring Tyler Clary, Michael Jamieson, Daryna Zevina, Mireia Belmonte, Jessica Hardy, Melani Costa and Cullen Jones.
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The Independent: Meet Ruta Meilutyte ‘our secret world and Olympic star’
Read the Independent Robin Scott-Elliot meets the Plymouth schoolgirl who is the fastest breaststroker ever – famous in Lithuania but unknown here.
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Happy Holidays 2013
Yeah, a pretty lousy photo of a whale, taken from our car yesterday, near Ãir in the Faroe Islands. Four more sperm whales had gotten themselves almost beached on the banks of HvalvÃk (‘Whale Bay’), here in the Faroes, like those that died a few weeks ago, one ending up exploding. This time the weather…
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2013 Duel in the Pool Interviews
Courtesy of British Swimming, Conor Dwyer, Jeanette Ottesen, Michael Jamieson, Eugene Godsoe, Sophie Allen, Tom Shields, Fran Halsall and Mireia Belmonte being interviewed.