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Simone Manuel Is Pushing Barriers & Breaking Records | Milestones
Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel continues to push barriers and break records simultaneously. Growing up as a black swimmer in an overwhelmingly white sport, Simone always knew she would face adversity & unique challenges as she continued to pursue her dreams. In this episode of #Milestones presented by Toyota, Simone breaks down what gives her the drive to be great and stand up as a role model for black kids who want to grow up to be a dominant just like her.
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Man Nearly Drowns While Swimming Under Ice
Jason Clark is an adrenaline junkie who has a bucket list of crazy things to do before he dies. When he went out on a frozen lake in Utah attempting a point to point swim, things went terribly wrong!
https://youtu.be/ACBUzb-fMl8
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World champion Scott Miller says addiction destroyed his life | 60 Minutes Australia
A world record breaker, Olympic silver medalist and once the most popular Australian swimmer, Scott Miller had it all. But with incredible success comes the opportunity for temptation, and quickly Scott had replaced training with hard partying. Now, after leaving rehab, Scott Miller is facing the greatest comeback of his life.
https://youtu.be/EzXpjKvSbZ0
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Why You Should Take Up Swimming – Ger Carty’s Story
“People are always afraid of trying something new. Especially adultsâ€
Ger Carty is a successful long-distance swimmer and also the water safety officer for Dublin City.
But just like you, before Ger achieved anything, even he had to start somewhereâ€
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Turkish gold-medalist Paralympic swimmer Sümeyye Boyacı joins Barbie’s ‘Role Models’ line
I may not have arms but I have wings no one else sees.†These are the words of 17-year-old world paralympic swimming champion Sümeyye Boyacı, the kind of inspirational figure you would want your kids to look up to.
Mattel seems to think so as well, picking Boyacı as one of its “sheros” for young girls in this year’s line of Barbie dolls in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8.
Modeled after Boyacı, the doll is one of the many created as part of Barbie’s pledge to spotlight female role models in sports.
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3 Killed After Dry Ice Used for ‘Visual Effect’ at Instagram Influencer’s Party
According to the Moscow Times, Instagram influencer Ekaterina Didenko was celebrating her 29th birthday at a pool and sauna complex this past Friday when her husband, 32-year-old Valentin Didenko, dumped 55 pounds of dry ice into the pool to create dramatic “visual effect.â€
You can see the moment when the dry ice was unloaded into the pool in the Russian news report below:
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Hypoxic Swim Set… It’ll get you | Cody Miller Vlogs
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Ian Thorpe campaigns against religious discrimination bill, saying it will remove Australia’s ‘fair go’
Ian Thorpe has visited MPs at Parliament House to lobby against the Government’s religious discrimination bill, saying it goes against the Australian notion of a “fair go” and will divide the country.
The Olympian joined a campaign by Equality Australia to speak against the controversial proposed legislation, which has been through two iterations after broad criticism from both religious and LGBT groups.
The bill, which the Government said aimed to protect the freedom to practice religion, would allow medical workers to object to carrying out procedures against their faith and permit hospitals and aged care providers to hire people based on their faith.
Mr Thorpe said the bill would “discriminate against young and old”.
“It will discriminate against people based on their gender, it will also restrict people’s ability and access to be able to use our hospital services, our schools, and it will have a huge impact on the LGBTIQ community in particular,” he said.
“I believe in an Australia that has a sense of a fair go and this bill most certainly doesn’t do that.
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