KXAN’s Gary Cooper reports she’s not letting that experience stand in her way.
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The Brain-Eating Amoeba Is a Nearly Perfect Killer
Last week, a North Carolina man became a notorious microbial killer’s first confirmed victim this year. The 59-year-old Eddie Gray had unknowingly come across a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a man-made lake near Fayetteville in mid-July; 10 days later, he was dead.
Since the brain-eating amoeba was first recognized and named, in 1970, grisly reports of its disastrous attacks have made headlines nearly every year. About 97 percent of confirmed cases in the United States have been fatal. But the infection is also incredibly rare, and the small sample size leaves the epidemiologists who study it and the doctors who encounter it with their hands tied. It may be one of nature’s most perfect crimes.
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Two swimmers in two different spots disappear on the Columbia River Friday night
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My Mother Told Me to Either Swim or Sink – Eddie Hall | London Real
Eddie Hall is the athlete, strongman, and actor better known as “The Beastâ€.
In 2016 he set the deadlift world record at 500kg – over 1100 pounds – which he said was one of the most dangerous things he’s ever done.
In 2017 he won the World’s Strongest Man competition at the sixth attempt, accomplishing a lifelong dream.
Today he spends his time recording television projects and YouTube shows, promoting strongman as a sport and mental health awareness. He is also filming a documentary with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Unique High School Swim Program Teaches Students Lifesaving Lessons | NBC Nightly News
Students at one New York high school are learning how to swim for the first time while also training to be lifeguards. The students are able to use their jobs as lifeguards to save money for college and help their family members in need. Their coach says the best part is watching the lifesaving lessons pay off in and out of the pool.
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Shayna Jack has ‘a lot of explaining to do’
Shayna Jack has “a lot of explaining to do†if she is to reduce the four-year ban reportedly set to be imposed on her for failing a doping test, according to former Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority chief Richard Ings.
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Highlights – Day 17 | FINA World Championships 2019 – Gwangju
Enjoy the highlights of day 17 at the FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju! #FINAGwangju2019
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Swimming Women – 400m Individual Medley | Top Moments | FINA World Championships 2019 – Gwangju
History was made as Katinka Hosszu changed gear and left her rivals behind over the breaststroke leg of the 400m IM final at the FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju. The Hungarian won with ease once again and became the first swimmer at the Worlds who could achieve double golds in the same stroke at four Worlds in a row.
Besides, that was her 5th title in the same event, a feat only Michael Phelps could achieve at the World Championships before (in the 200m fly). Hosszu won this event for the first time in Rome 2009 as a 20-year old youngster and has been enjoying a quiet eventful decade ever since.
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Swimming Women – 4x100m MR | Top Moments | FINA World Championships 2019 – Gwangju
The perfect way to finish the FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju. A classy new World Record in the Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay as Team USA put the icing on the cake with yet another gold medal. Australia second and Canada third.