Category: Organization
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Safe Return To Swimming with Absolute Swimming Academy
We are pleased to be welcoming back all swimmers to our programmes and will be following all government and federation guidelines to ensure the safety of our community.
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Swim Out for Black Lives Matter
Juneteenth 2020 saw swimmers from the San Francisco Bay Area come together in solidarity with the fight against Social Injustice. A swim out to start actively elevating Black voices and committing to non-complacency.
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Local woman teaches swim lessons, neighbors want her to stop
“Miss Rita” as she is known, has been teaching young children how to swim, for more than 30 years. And some of Rita’s neighbors want her swim lessons shut down.
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Backyard Swim Lesson Forced to Stop
Rita Shalhope started the program when she and several neighbors in the area put in swimming pools. “So I just went around to all the parents and said I’m afraid one of these kids is going to climb a fence and fall in, and I’m just going to teach all the kids to swim, which…
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Swim instructors push for eased restrictions
Learning to swim while keeping up with physical distancing is a near-impossible task. As Erica Natividad reports, that has some GTA swim instructors worried about an increase in drownings this summer.
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Call to cancel Tokyo Olympics enters race for Tokyo governor
The contentious issue of the billions being spent on the postponed Tokyo Olympics has entered the debate in the race for governor of Japan’s capital. Incumbent Yuriko Koike is a strong favorite to be reelected — and a strong supporter of the Olympics — in a field of more than a dozen candidates. The campaign…
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Fiji Swimming Holds online course
With pools out of bound to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, Fiji Swimming has decided to start online course. https://youtu.be/DUktD1DnyoI