Author: rokur
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Congo Swim 2013
“You are invited to support peace and justice in a location of your choice through CongoSwim. Learn more at congoswim.org. Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo learned to swim as an adult and braved the roughest current and waves during the crossing of the 22 mile length of Lake Tahoe in California with Keris Dahlkamp.…
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Shirin Gerami first female triathlete to compete for Iran
See The Guardian A 24-year-old woman from Iran will this weekend make history in London by becoming the first female triathlete to take part in a world championship under the green, white and red tricolour of the Islamic republic’s flag. Shirin Gerami will join 8,500 athletes from 83 countries taking part in the PruHealth world…
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Hannah Miley awarded Nancy Riach Memorial Medal, launches fleet of ‘Hannah’ vans
Read The Journal The 24-year-old received the Nancy Riach Memorial Medal in recognition of her three medals at the European Short Course Championships and her first 400 IM World Short Course Championships gold in Istanbul last December, where she improved on her European record. Ahead of the awards, Miley launched the new ‘Hannah Fleet’ of…
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CC photo #622: First meet of the season 2013-2014
The very first heat in the very first meet, three young girls readying themselves for the launch of the 2013-2014 swim season here in the Faroe Islands.
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Man dies after rescuing child from hotel swimming pool
See ABC13 Investigators found that Hernandez, 27, died after receiving an apparent electric shock in the hotel pool. Witnesses tell investigators he saved his 10-year-old brother and his mother, after they and other guests felt what they believed to be a series of shocks and could not swim. Police say Hernandez went into cardiac arrest…
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Driver trapped under water survives in air bubble
See 9News Early Thursday morning, Roy Ortiz was driving to work when the world literally crumbled underneath his car. He went nose first into the rising flood waters and was trapped fearing the worst. “I’m completely stuck right there. So, I have to wait,” Ortiz said. He could not get out of the car, but…
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The Devil’s Pool
Via Laughing Squid In the short film “The Devil’s Pool,†filmmaker Casey Neistat recounts his single-minded mission to swim in Devil’s Pool, a notoriously dangerous natural pool at the edge of Victoria Falls in Southern Africa.