Category: Health
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Kieren Perkins reveals panic attack that almost cost him Olympic swimming glory at Atlanta 1996
Read 7NEWSÂ and ABC Swimming great Kieren Perkins has revealed a panic attack nearly led him to abandon an Olympic gold-medal-winning race that became one of the most enduring moments in Australian sporting history.
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Swimming Pool Chemicals Send Thousands to ERs, CDC Says
Read NBC News Each year thousands of Americans are injured by the chemicals designed to keep swimming pools safe, a new government report finds. In 2012, 4,876 people landed in the emergency room after being injured by pool chemicals, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate.
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Kieren Perkins to reveal post-swimming struggles on Australian Story
Read news.com.au Gold medal hero Kieren Perkins is taking the plunge into second-time marriage later this year, but first is diving into his own post-swimming struggles on Australian Story. Perkins, 40, has been an exemplar among the few Australian swimmers in recent history to manage the difficult transition from national sporting idol to relative anonymity.…
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There’s more to chlorine than just swimming pools
Listen to Marketplace It keeps your pools clean and safe, it’s half of the compound that makes up table salt, and — in its purest form – it can kill you. And those are only three of the things chlorine can do. “There are something like 15,000 chlorine-based chemicals that are used in industry,” says the BBC’s Justin…
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Swimming: the worst job in the sporting world
Read The Sydney Morning Herald It is actually pretty amazing there is not more former Olympic swimmers snorting coke and ice and Stilnox because if there is a sport tailor-made for producing sociopaths and depressives, it has got to be swimming. Imagine spending endless hours staring at the bottom of a pool, gulping chlorinated water,…
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Don’t drink the mud: Tough Mudder participants fall ill after swimming through feces-tainted water
Read The Vancouver Sun It turns out the toughest obstacle of a Tough Mudder-style race might not be dodging live electrical wires, hoisting logs or leaping over a wall of flames. It might be the nasty stomach bug that can come from swallowing the muddy water. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a memo Friday warning…
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Why sports stars mix with drugs
Read Courier Mail Huegill’s achievement and the healthy lifestyle message that he marketed set him up for life. Then came the news this week that he and his wife Sara had been charged with possession of cocaine following a day at Randwick races. While the charges have yet to be heard by a court, as…
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Give swimmers more post-career support, urges Brenton Rickard
Read The Sydney Morning Herald Two-time Olympic Games medallist Brenton Rickard has implored officials to build a post-career support network for Australia’s swimmers to help them transition to life out of the pool. Rickard is helping Swimming Australia create a new program to prepare athletes for retirement as three of the sport’s golden boys –…
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Ian Thorpe released from Sydney hospital after battling serious infection
Read for instance The Independent Ian Thorpe has been released from hospital in Sydney following an infection, his manager has revealed. The five-time Olympic champion swimmer had contracted the infection in his shoulder during surgery earlier this year. The 31-year-old’s manager James Erskine told the Australian Associated Press: “It looks as though the infections have…