Category: Organization
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Actively Northwest teams up with Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors
See King5.com Olympic swimer and world record holder Ariana Kukors joined guest host Meeghan Black to talk about why she’s teaming up with LifeWise Health Plan of Washington to launch Actively Northwest, an online lifestyle magazine that features stories, tips and other resources to help people live healthy and fit lives. Ariana hopes to use…
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Swim The Island – The Ultimate Sea Water Experience
“Be fast, be wild, be cool. A great water experience.” See swimtheisland.com
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Chris DeSantis moves on to Gentofte Swim Club
Gentofte Svømmeklub announces today that Chris DeSantis will be their new head coach starting 1 August 2013, now with their current head coach Stefan Hansen moving on to become assistant head coach at the National Training Center. DeSantis is well known also as blogger for instance at The Swim Brief. ‘Chris will get to use his…
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Sean Conway Interview – Swimming Britain with Speedo
Sean is aiming to do the never been done before and swim the entire length of Britain. Sean will start his 1000-mile round trip in Land’s End and will need to swim further than the channel every day to stay on track. Follow his Swimming Britain adventure here on speedo.co.uk
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Rumbo Solidario “Gibraltar Strait Crossing 2013”
“Rumbo Solidario†is a sport association which offers us the human side of sports through sport challenges and it pursues charity aims. This summer they will swim across the Strait of Gibraltar to build a school in India and get a caravan of food for the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). “Rumbo Solidario†collaborates…
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Wahoo Swim Bands detect if a swimmer has been under for too long
See story on KSTP.com and wahoosms.com It looks like a headband and if a child that’s wearing one gets in trouble- parents and lifeguards will know. If a child is submerged for 20 seconds, a light flashes on a tower. If a child is under for 30 seconds or more, an alarm goes off. A…
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Stupid Swim 30 May 2013 – Strode Swimming Pool
36 Hour Charity Swim – A great feat achieved by these two young gentleman (Rich Hill and Greg Kyd) raising over £4000 for two brilliant charities. 36 hours of swimming whittled down into just 3 minutes of footage that is well worth a watch. From the article on avalonleisure.co.uk: By the end of their mammoth…
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Former swim coach Greg Winslow should have been fired sooner
Read MercuryNews and seattlepi The University of Utah should have fired former swim coach Greg Winslow by no later than early 2012 for alcohol abuse that was corrosive to the entire team, an independent investigation has found. According to the findings revealed Tuesday, during his first two years, Winslow used psychological manipulation against his swimmers to motivate by fear. While…
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III Marnaton de la Lluna. 2013
‘On the 01/06/2013, the Lluna Marnaton III was held, an event with its own personality. It is not just a journey, it is a 360° experience, a whole day full of activities for all the family in the Camping International De Calonge: children’s activities, swimming clinics, courses and racing kayaks.’