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  • Laps for Life: Gemma King

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Charity, Health

    Support Gemma’s swim at: https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundra…

    About Laps for Life: https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/

  • Ice, Ice Baby: Kazakh Boy Raised To Become Winter Swimming Ace

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Winter Swimming

    An 8-year-old boy from Kazakhstan has been swimming in nearly frozen water for much of his life. Alan Ghabdulov is training to be a world-class winter swimmer while his father borrows money to take him to international competitions.

  • Olympia Swimming Pool drowning raises concern

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Safety

    The unfortunate drowning incident that occurred over the weekend at a municipal swimming pool in Olympia has raised great concern and experts are advising parents and guardians to be extra cautious when taking their kids for a swim.

  • 2020 Cincinnati Bearcats’ Swimming and Diving

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Competition, Diving

  • Swim Tips From The Cold Tub: Nutrition & Experimentation

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Nutrition

    Coach Craig talks about nutrition as it relates to performance and the role that experimentation with new foods plays in the process. This video is not about what you need to eat to perform better but more about what you should think about as you test new foods. This video is extra fun because you can watch Coach Craig go from cold to shivering and hypothermic throughout the video! Can you spot the exact moment that he has had enough?!?!

  • State: Don’t fish or swim in water near deadly Scottsboro dock fire

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Safety

    State: Don’t fish or swim in water near Jackson County Park following deadly fire

  • Cardinal Swim and Tennis Club vandalized; sheds, tennis courts damaged

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Crime

    Tennis courts were torn up, and a shed filled with equipment was trashed at the Cardinal Swim and Tennis Club in Greensboro.

  • Outback Australia Swimming Holes | Mataranka

    Jan 28, 2020

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    rokur
    in Nature

    Join me on a day adventure down to Mataranka Northern Territory. Checking out bitter hot springs and Mataranka thermal pool.

  • Insane Polar Plunge | Way Too Cold

    Jan 27, 2020

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    rokur
    in Winter Swimming

    POLAR PLUNGE! We’ve done it before, and we came back for another go at it 2020 style. Our family AGAIN took the POLAR PLUNGE CHALLENGE to kick off the new year right. It was fun, it was crazy, it was wild, it was FREEZING, it was exhilarating! Join us next year???

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