Author: rokur
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MarTar Swim School to fight childhood obesity
See CBS Baltimore September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. At the Mar Tar Swimming School in Elkridge, parents are looking out for their children’s health by allowing them to swim toward fitness. “A swimming pool makes your body lighter no matter what, so the weight is usually not an issue,†Girch said. In 2010, more…
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Scottish Swimmers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Featuring Kathryn Johnstone, Robbie Renwick and Lewis Smith
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Swimming Australia launch GO Swim Month 2013
“October 2013 is being transformed into GO Swim Month, a national campaign aimed at promoting swimming through registered GO Swim centres. A GO Swim Day is a great introduction to a local swim club or a chance for existing members to get together and celebrate everything they love about swimming and their club. Head to…
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Tens of thousands swim across Sun Moon Lake at annual event
Read Focus Taiwan Tens of thousands of people joined an annual mass swimming event on Sunday across Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan’s largest fresh water lake. Over 25,000 swimmers attempted the 3,000-meter swim across the lake in the central county of Nantou, including 237 disabled people and 1,088 foreign swimmers from 30 countries, organizers said.
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Ben McKenzie to star in ‘The Swimmer’, a film about extreme swimming
Read Deadline Southland‘s Ben McKenzie is set to star in The Swimmer, about an American extreme swimmer who sets out to conquer one of Norway’s wildest rivers and in doing so must confront his inner demons. The Swimmer is backed by the U.S.-Norway Film Development Project as well as the regional film funds of Norway and will also star Norwegian…
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Gerhard Zandberg hits out at Swimming South Africa
Read Eyewitness News Swimmer Gerhard Zandberg on Monday told Eyewitness News Sport that he is hoping his Swimming South Africa appeal hearing will be a catalyst for change in swimming. Zandberg was served with a R5,000 fine and ordered to do community service after switching rooms at the recent World Championships without consent. He lodged…
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Sneak peek: ‘A League of Their Own’ featuring Eamon Sullivan
“I look like a Hungarian tennis player!” :-P Post by Australian Swim Team.
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Diana Nyad to meet marathoners who doubt her Cuba-to-Florida swim
The media world is exploding in news about how a community of marathon swimmers is now questioning whether Diana Nyad actually accomplished the feat to swim the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. See for instance philly.com, 10News, Ocala.com, ABC Action News, pnj.com, Las Vegas Guardian Express, The Vancouver Sun, ESPN, cbs12.com, … On social…
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