Category: Health
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Young swimmer with dwarfism racking up the medals
See USA Today At only 10-years-old Mia Towl has won three gold medals, set world records in the breast stroke and butterfly and was named “most promising athlete” from Sportswomen of Colorado. Mia was also born with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. She was a star at the 2013 World Dwarf Games, where she won…
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1936 Olympian Adolph Kiefer still gets a kick from swimming
See Chicago Tribune Adolph Kiefer, a 96-year-old Chicago area swimmer who won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, talks about his lifetime of swimming. Kiefer is also an inventor and innovator of new products related to aquatics competition. http://youtu.be/XWBa-X4z4D0
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Amy Van Dyken ‘Going to Get Through It’
See ABC News The six-time Olympic Gold medalist swimmer who severed her spinal cord in an ATV crash says the surgeon told her to say her goodbyes to her husband after the crash. “There’s a good chance I wasn’t going to make it out of surgery,†Amy Van Dyken-Rouen said Wednesday. “I looked at my…
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Video: Amy Van Dyken Speaks To The Press, Surgeon Explains Injury
See SwimmingWorld While lying on a stretcher just a few feet from the airplane set to transport her to Craig Hospital in Colorado, Van Dyken said her memory of the day she was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle in Show Low, Ariz., is very fuzzy. Most of what she knows was described to her after…
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Man turns into ‘zombie’ after swimming
See CBS Sacramento A Stockton man claims he got severely ill and nearly died after swimming in a popular lake, losing 28 pounds in just one week. Luis Lopez swam at the Woodward Reservoir Regional Park in rural Stanislaus County. “I couldn’t move; I couldn’t look around, like I was a zombie,†Lopez said.
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Amy Van Dyken out of ICU
Read for instance The Gazette and KDVR Olympic champion swimmer Amy Van Dyke-Rouen has been moved from intensive care to a regular hospital room, nine days after severing her spinal cord in an all-terrain vehicle accident. Hospital spokeswoman Jamie Grimm says the six-time gold medalist was in good condition and moved from the ICU on…
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Dave Denniston is sure Amy van Dyken will be fine
Read Classicalite and CBS Six-Time Olympic gold medalist Amy Van Dyken is in a hospital after an ATV accident last weekend. She is paralyzed after suffering a severed spinal cord. The former Olympic swimmer has put on a brave face for news and social media, although it has been obviously a difficult time for her…
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What Athletes Eat Before They Compete
Including Michael Phelps. And phew, we dodged the Bacon / Chicken McNugget / 2 Boiled Cabbages menus.
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Natalie Coughlin – Prescription Drug Awareness
12-time Olympic medalist Natalie Coughlin warns consumers that “One Pill Can Killâ€. Find more information at http://www.mbc.ca.gov http://youtu.be/1gju5yhnFMc