Category: Health
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Canadian Paralympic ad is awe-inspiring (and shot in one go)
Absolutely fantastic 2010 Paralympic Games video ad made by BBDO Toronto for the Canadian Paralympic Committee, featuring an athlete with a prosthetic leg running on a track littered by elements of his story of recovery – a car crash, a hospital and physical training. Via Mashable. The video itself is also a major feat, shot…
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Robbie Renwick on the tragic death of Dale Oen
Nice blog post here on the Scottish Sun, by Olympic qualified Robbie Renwick, with an important message too: The scary thing is there seems to have been a trend just lately for fit young athletes to have heart problems. First Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba collapsed, then the Italian player, Piermario Morosini, dropped dead on the pitch.…
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Winter swimmers in Copenhagen
Around 20,000 Danes swim in the sea during the winter, and swim even when the water is frozen over and dry. Warning, almost NSFW outside of Scandinavia and France.
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Dale Oen’s autopsy inconclusive, shock waves near and far
The autopsy conducted on Alexander Dale Oen Tuesday found no evidence on how he died, no anatomic cause of death and no trauma associated with the death, additional test are running but it could take eight weeks or longer to get final test results. The Japan Swimming Federation is reconsidering altitude training ahead of the…
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Swiss swimmer in an icy lake at 7600 feet in the Alps
This is Swiss Ernst Bromeis in the ice cold Toma Lake at 2345 meters altitude altitude above sea level, near Disentis, Switzerland. He plans to swim, wade and user other means for the 1240 kilometers from the source of the Rhine in Switzerland to the water mouth near Rotterdam in 2012, to make people aware…
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Jessicah Schipper recovering after emergency surgery
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Jessicah Schipper survived an emergency surgery this weekend after being rush to the hospital Sunday night with “extreme abdominal pain”. Initially diagnosed with the need to remove her appendix, surgeons discovered that she had a ruptured cyst on her ovary, which they then repaired. Read The Herald Sun via SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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Alexander Dale Oen has died, aged 26
According to a press release from the Norwegian Swimming Federation, world champion Alexander Dale Oen was found dead in Flagstaff, Arizona, this morning. He had been talking on Skype to his family back in Norway, just moments before being found lifeless in the shower. They rushed him to Flagstaff Medical Center, where he was pronounced…
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Natalie Coughlin on her latest passion: Food
Elliot Almond of SJ Mercury interviewing Natalie Coughlin. “If they gave medals for being a foodie, Olympic swim champion Natalie Coughlin would win a gold. She’s even appeared on Iron Chef.”
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We are U.S. Masters Swimming
“Promoting Health, Wellness, Fitness and Competition for Adults through Swimming.”