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  • Midland Dow’s Sasha Konovalenko explains similarities between swimming, blitz chess

    Nov 8, 2019

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    Midland Dow swimmer Sasha Konovalenko is one of the top young female chess players in the country. She is also one of the top swimmers on the Dow team heading into the state meet.

  • Midland Dow senior Anna Jensen talks about swimming on boys, girls teams

    Nov 8, 2019

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    Midland Dow senior Anna Jensen competed on the boys swim team as a freshman when she was one of the top distance runners in the state. She joined the girls team and hopes to medal in the state meet. Jensen has committed to join the women’s rowing team at Texas.

  • LA Current Making a Splash in the International Swim League

    Nov 8, 2019

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    Spectrum News 1 and Kristen Lago came out to an LA Current practice to talk to some of the athletes about what it’s like to be a professional swimmer today as well as what it means to represent a sports city like Los Angeles.

  • ‘The Hottest Take’: Olympics | Rodger Sherman Wants to Get Rid of the Swim Strokes

    Nov 8, 2019

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    In this episode of The Hottest Take, Rodger Sherman says the Olympics needs to make a change, and there are two options.

     

  • Starlight Super Swim | 60 s

    Nov 8, 2019

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    in Charity

    Join us in 2020 to go the distance and fundraise for sick kids as part of the Starlight Super Swim, and your super efforts will help bring a splash of happiness to their lives.

    Register your interest in the Super Swim challenge 2020: https://superswim.org.au/

  • Singer Alex Fong raises over US$1 million for charity by swimming around Hong Kong Island

    Nov 8, 2019

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    in Charity, Open Water

    Former Olympian and Canto-pop star Alex Fong Lik-sun has raised more than HK$8 million (US$1 million) for a local charity by swimming around Hong Kong Island.The beneficiary, “A Drop of Life”, works to provide drinking water for impoverished communities in China, Nepal, and Cambodia.The 39-year-old celebrity swimmer says “education can eliminate poverty” and that having access to clean water is a basic start for children to study better.

  • Why Blake Pieroni loves the ISL | LA Current

    Nov 8, 2019

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    https://youtu.be/NSYfvS8PASc

  • This Week on Brian Ross Investigates – USA Swimming / Donald Trump’s Tax Returns

    Nov 8, 2019

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    in Crime

    As USA Swimming prepares for next summer’s Olympics, the sport is entangled in both criminal and civil legal problems over its handling of sex abuse by its coaches.

  • Students swim in plastic-filled swimming pool | The Straits Times

    Nov 8, 2019

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    Students at international school GEMS World Academy (Singapore) learnt about the plague of plastic in the oceans by literally swimming in rubbish earlier this week.

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