Category: Charity
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Swimming The Solent 2019 – Ian Pratt Motor Neurone Disease Challenge
The Ian Pratt Motor Neurone Disease Challenge is an Annual swimming challenge between the Isle of Wight and Stokes Bay in Gosport. Staged to raise awareness of Motor Neurone Disease and funds to help support families affected by it.
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Michael Phelps in Mesa helping teach kids to swim, raise money for cancer research
Michael Phelps was in Mesa helping kids learn how to swim as part of Swim Across America. Part of the effort was to raise money and awareness for cancer research.
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Swimming Star Diana Nyad Leads ‘Liberty Walk’ From Philly To DC
The walk is part of Nyad’s endurance initiative aimed at getting people of all ages and skill levels active and moving.
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Man to swim across Chesapeake Bay for kids with special needs
A Virginia Beach man has spent months prepping to swim across Chesapeake Bay on Sept. 5 to raise money for people with special needs. Robert Cass said he will  swim between 11 and 14 hours from the Eastern Shore to Buoy 44 in hopes of raising $50,000 for a non-profit that helps people with special…
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Swimmers make waves to fight cancer
The Swim Across America’s annual Boston Harbor Islands Swim, a 22-mile relay around Boston Harbor Islands and the annual Pool Swim held at Harvard University, are part of the critical effort to fund pediatric hematology/oncology and related programs at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Since 2013, the MGHfC Cancer Center has received…
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Dutch swimmer raises nearly 4 million Euros to fight cancer
For more than a century – the Eleven Cities Race has been part of Dutch sporting folklore. Ice skaters would travel along frozen waterways – over a course that’s nearly two-hundred kilometres long. It hasn’t taken place since the late nineties – with some blaming global warming. Now – one competitor has decided to resurrect…
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My Intestines Got Sucked Out In A Swimming Pool | TRULY
A horrific swimming pool accident left a teenager without her intestines and unable to eat food for the last 10 years. When she was five-years-old, Salma Bashir was playing in a baby swimming pool in Alexandria, Egypt. She sat on the pool’s suction valve and the force was so strong that it ripped her small…