Category: Organization
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SwimTrek: Open Water Swimming Holiday, Montenegro
Open water swimming holiday in Montenegro Riviera. Activity based travel swimming holidays & vacations with SwimTrek Adventure Holidays.
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Record Day for Swim Across America
See It’s Relevant Saturday marked seven years for Swim Across America’s Stamford swim — and lucky seven it was. Saturday the swim set a new bar, raising over $475,000 for cancer research. “[We’re swimming for] good friends — one who passed away, and another who has cancer,” said Ed Linekin of Ridgefield.
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Swim Meet to Honor former Founder
See wjbf.com The Springlakes swim team has hosted a relay meet in Augusta for the past 25 years. The meet annually draws the best competition from around the region. This year’s meet will be extra special. The club has renamed the event after its founder, Pete Igel. Igel passed away last year at the age…
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Pan Am Aquatics Centre, a closer look
See Daily Commercial News Construction progress on the new Pan Am Aquatics Centre is approximately halfway complete as it is slated to finish up in July 2014. Located at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus, the facility will be home to swimming events during the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games in Toronto.
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2013 World’s Largest Swim Lesson – Brendan Hansen at Aquatica San Antonio
“Aquatica San Antonio participated in the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson on June 18, 2013. We were joined by special guest Brendan Hansen, six-time Olympic medal winner and former world record holder.”
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Worlds Largest Swim Lessons
Setting the Guinness World Record for the single largest simultaneous swim lesson. It was an international effort that brought together over 35,000 participants on five different continents. See
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Scott Miller (AUS) arrested, charged with possessing drugs and stolen goods
Read for instance 9News and news.com.au Disgraced Olympian Scott Miller has been embroiled in a drug scandal after he was arrested by the police allegedly in possession of several grams of ‘ice’ and AUS$17,000 in cash. The Atlanta 1996 dual medallist was arrested at a home in Mascot, in Sydney’s south, and charged with two…
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Adults find out it’s never too late to learn how to swim
Read Lancaster Online Wanda Gregg is 56 years old, and she is learning how to swim. The Lancaster woman never learned the skill as a kid. Now she has two grandsons and she wants to be able to be in the pool with them. “We started with breathing, blowing bubbles — the basic stuff. That’s…
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Ex-Utah swim coach Greg Winslow won’t face sex assault charges
Read USA Today and The Washington Post The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it will not pursue sexual charges against Greg Winslow, a former swimming coach at the University of Utah and in Arizona. Winslow was suspected of kissing and fondling a 15-year-old female swimmer at a Tempe, Ariz., swimming club, where he…