Category: Health
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Danish triathlete European champion Camilla Pedersen still in critical condition
Read for instance Berlingske The Danish European triathlon champion Camilla Pedersen is still in induced coma at Odense University Hospital after a bad bike crash during training Wednesday. Doctors had hoped that the triathlete may be awakened from her coma over the weekend. That is now completely dropped. Camilla Pedersen’s condition has not changed and…
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Whole World calling on injured triathlete Camilla Pedersen
Read Jyllands-Posten (in Danish) “It’s been a storm without equal. It has gone around the world, and my phone has been red hot since Tuesday, says Michael Krüger, national coach of the Danish Triathlon Federation, now at third day waiting for news about the Danish European champion Camilla Pedersen, who crashed her bike Tuesday night.…
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Water quality delays, moves London, Copenhagen open water events
Two major open water events in European capitals today had to be either moved or delayed because of water quality. In Britain, the Great London Swim was moved from the Royal Victoria Dock to its contingency venue, Millwall Dock, as unexpected activity related to construction work in the immediate area has resulted in the reduction…
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Swimming lessons saved baby born with half a heart
Read The Telegraph Charlie Cobb, had to undergo open heart surgery just hours after being born and surgeons warned he might not pull through. Even after the op he suffered a huge heart attack – underwent two more operations – and was hospitalised countless times to fight off infections. But ever since mothrer Louise Bushby,…
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Fanny Lecluyse on SpartaNova
Fanny Lecluyse (GOLD Swimming Team), her physiotherapist Manu Wemel (Callewaert-Wemel) and coach Wauter Derycke on SpartaNova. Fanny Lecluyse on SpartaNova (subtitles) from SpartaNova on Vimeo.
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Raising An Olympian: Eamon Sullivan
Eamon Sullivan and mom Pam on how he started swimming because of asthma, on his swimming and on his many injuries. Raising An Olympian: Eamon Sullivan (Australia, Swimming) from Karoliina Tuovinen, Editor on Vimeo.
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12-year-old Kali Hardig third ever to survive brain-eating parasite Naegleria Fowleri
Read for instance Huffington Post and MailOnline The 12-year-old Kali Hardig of Arkansas is now the third survivor of the rare but nearly always fatal infection caused by the brain-eating parasite Naegleria fowleri. Kali was brought into the Arkansas Children’s Hospital on July 19 with a fever, not long after she went swimming at the…
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Swimming and granny’s remedies keep Putin young
Read Fox News The secrets of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s buff physique and youthful appearance are the result of herbal health remedies and swimming regularly to combat stress, his doctor revealed Monday. Putin “doesn’t look his age,” the Kremlin’s top doctor Sergei Mironov told Russian weekly Itogui, chiefly because the 60-year-old is “sceptical about medication.”…
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Asthma Society of Ireland on Swimming
“Traditionally we used to recommend swimming as a good sport for people with asthma because the environment in a swimming pool is warm and humid, and those conditions are good when you are breathing hard. They generally don’t tend to cause the type of breathing problems that we see with the field sports.” “We want…