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Katie Ledecky Gets Emotional Winning Gold At Tokyo Olympics | Access
Katie Ledecky just made history at the Tokyo Olympics by snagging the first-ever gold medal in the women’s 1500m freestyle race. The 24-year-old swam 30 laps with the time of 15:37.34. She was a full 4.07 seconds ahead of fellow Team USA swimmer Erica Sullivan and she finished 5.57 seconds before Germany’s Sarah Kohler.
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Overcoming Obstacles: Brothers of Local Swimmer Share Unlikely Journey to Olympic Gold | 8 News NOW Las Vegas
Brothers of local swimmer share unlikely journey to Olympic gold
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Student Designs Pool Navigation Aid for Visually Impaired Swimmers | Loughborough University
Final year project design student, Mirthe Hofstede has designed Optic – a navigation aid for visually impaired swimmers that allows them to navigate in the pool efficiently and safely.
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South Korean Swimmer Hwang Sun-Woo Comes in Fifth in S. Korea’s First-Ever Men’s 100m Freestyle Final | Arirang News
Now we turn to the Olympics… where we are already getting Thursday’s updates… South Korean swimming sensation Hwang Sun-woo competed in the final of 100-meter freestyle but unfortunately fell short. For more on this and other news… we have our Kim Do-yeon standing by at the news center. Do-yeon, what an exciting few seconds that…
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Cochlear Aqua+ Helps Recipients Enjoy Swimming | Cochlear Americas
All her life Mary Grace wasn’t exposed to the water, but she wanted to learn how to swim. With the Cochlear Aqua+ she can now take swim lessons and hear her instructor underwater.
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Rio 2016 Olympian Nicholas Quinn Reviews Mona McSharry’s Olympic Final Swim | Swim Ireland
Mona McSharry became the second Irish swimmer ever to compete in an Olympic Final when making the 100m Breaststroke Final at Tokyo 2020.
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US Swim Star Dressel Takes Second Tokyo Gold in Men’s 100m Freestyle | France 24 English
US superstar #CaelebDressel flew faster than Kyle Chalmers to add the #Olympic #games 100m freestyle crown to his two world titles Thursday, as China’s women sparked a huge upset with a new world record to win the 4x200m relay. FRANCE 24’s Sport Editor Simon Harding tells us more.
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Penny Oleksiak Wins Bronze to Tie Canada Record With 6th Olympic Medal | 200m Freestyle | Tokyo 2020 | CBC Sports
Penny Oleksiak wins bronze in 200m women’s freestyle swimming event, becoming the most decorated Summer Olympian in Canadian history. Then the 21-year-old from Toronto swam a personal best time of one minute, 54.70 seconds.
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Shark Sighting Shuts Down Long Island Beach | WNT | ABC News
The town of Hempstead on New York’s Long Island closed all of its beach a day after a lifeguard was potentially bitten by a shark in the latest in a series of shark sightings.