Category: Wow
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Becoming Men – Short film about the Grand Canal freestyle diving kids
“During a long hot summer in inner city Dublin, a man looks back on his own youth. Things haven’t changed much.” via The Irish Times, thanks John! Becoming Men from Motherland on Vimeo.
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Visually impaired student trains for long distance swim
Katie Cuppie an Northern Arizona University freshman is training for what may seem like the impossible. Being visually impaired isn’t something that holds Cuppie back, she plans to swim the distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco Bay.
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Sylle did it! – Fly across the English Channel in 16h41m
Impressive Post by Sylle's English Channel Butterfly Swim.
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Woman swims 500 yards to toast 100th birthday
Read NewsTimes Most people likely wouldn’t want to attempt a quarter-mile swim. Then again, Margaret K. Wachs isn’t most people. On Friday, to celebrate her 100th birthday, Wachs swam 10 laps in the Woodruff Family YMCA pool. That’s 500 yards — the equivalent of five football fields, and more than a quarter mile. “I feel…
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Anna Wardley completes Five Island Swim Channel with swim around Isle of Wight
See Express & Star and annawardley 37-year-old Anna Wardley from Gosport in Hampshire has become the first person in nearly 30 years to swim solo, non-stop, around Isle of Wight. She completed the challenge in 26 hours, 33 minutes and 28 seconds – more than three hours ahead of schedule – and completed then also…
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Sylle about to start his butterfly swim across the English Channel
Tomorrow at 9:30am, Swedish-based frenchman Sylvain ‘Sylle’ Estadieu plans to try to swim across the English Channel, only using the butterfly stroke. Awesome. You can support by texting him on first Irish number 00353-87-66-81-369 on the English side and then 0033-67-43-71-374 on the French side, or cheer him on here on Facebook. Go Sylle! Post by…
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Cathrin Carlzon and also hero Tobias Jakobsson explain how they saved that 2-year-old boy from drowning, Wednesday
Expressen has this video now where Cathrin Levander (Carlzon) and also hero Tobias Jakobsson explain how they saved that little boy from drowning, who yesterday went into a river in Uppsala, Sweden, fastened to his baby carriage, as reported by simma.nu/se and then reported here and on SwimmingWorld Magazine. See also Metro, UNT and SvD. Video and sources…
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Swedish 2004 Olympian Cathrin Carlzon saves 2-year-old boy’s life
See simma.nu/se and unt.se Swedish 2004 Olympian Cathrin Levander (Carlzon) was yesterday’s big hero in Uppsala, Sweden, when she while jogging in the cold winter night came by a crowd that was – to say the least – in distress. A baby carriage with a fastened two-year-old child on board had rolled down into the…
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Tudor Morris to swim the English Channel this September, behold his beautiful video
See Virgin Money Giving My name is Tudor Morris and when I was 13 years old I was diagnosed with stage 3 non-hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the immune system and lymphatic glands where white blood cells are produced. By the time I started treatment the cancer had spread and I had…