Category: Health
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Ian Thorpe to host new ABC exposé on bullying
Aussie Olympic swimming great Ian Thorpe will open up about his own experience of being bullied as a teenager in a three-part documentary which aims to tackle all sides of the issue of bullying in schools. “More than a quarter of school children in Australia claim to have been bullied on a regular basis, which…
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TCU Swimmer Evan Schmitzberger Overcoming Adversity
After a near death experience and diagnosis with a form of heart disease (ARVC), TCU swimmer Evan Schmitzberger has a new role with the team and a new look on life.
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Iceland creates PSA to help visitors avoid ‘hot tub awkwardness’
Iceland is doing everything it can to convince tourists to visit. Icelandair offered free Icelandic “stopover buddies” to give travelers a local experience, and now the official tourism board has created an entire curriculum to teach foreigners how to fit in. The first lesson: How not to be awkward at the public spa. Gudmundur, the…
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An Important Swimming Secret for Weight Loss
This is a point that was recently printed in Australia’s ABC online news by writer Cathy Johnson who says that some believe that you are better off walking around a pool than swimming in it if you hope to lose weight. Part of the problem is that if you are overweight, then you are more…
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Teenage boy survives 42 minutes trapped six feet underwater
A teenage boy who became trapped six feet underwater in a canal in Northern Italy for 42 minutes has spoken for the first time about his recovery, which doctors say modern science is unable to explain. The boy, named only as Michael, dived into the Naviglio Grande in Cuggiono, near Milan, on a warm spring…
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Cate and Bronte Campbell behind Uncle Toby’s Join the Outsiders campaign
The Campbell sisters are challenging Queensland kids to ditch the screens and rediscover the joy of living outside. The 2016 Olympic swimming hopefuls spent so much of their childhood outdoors they had no idea how a television worked until they were in primary school. “We didn’t even know that you could turn on the TV…
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Singapore national swimmer Roanne Ho survives brush with death
Roanne Ho’s hopes of qualifying for August’s Olympics may have suffered a blow, but the swimmer is just happy to be alive after surviving a life-threatening condition. On Wednesday, the SEA Games 50m breaststroke champion went to Bukit Batok Polyclinic to seek treatment for what she thought was “a very bad cough”. But an X-ray…
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Pregnant women warned not to travel to the Rio Olympics
Pregnant women are being warned not to travel to the Olympics in Brazil after a virus causing thousands of babies to be born with unusually small heads swept through the region. Researchers have linked the rise in Microcephaly, a neurological disorder in which infants are born with smaller craniums and brains, to the Zika virus,…
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Deadwood man to swim for 12 hours on his 70th birthday
Jim Phillips is a Deadwood local, who is raising money for area swim teams, by doing something not many of us could. Next Monday, Phillips will swim from sun up to sun down at the Deadwood rec center. But, it’s not just a Monday… it will be his 70th birthday. See Black Hills FOX