This video shows a firefighting helicopter pilot refilling its bucket in a backyard swimming pool in Portugal, to tackle a nearby blaze. João Guimarães, the next-door neighbor, writes that the fire was brought under control in 20 minutes.
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In this episode of the #AskASwimPro Show, we’re in Detroit, Michigan with MySwimPro’s Marketing Director, Paige Walters! Learn more about Paige as she shares how swimming and water polo have shaped her life, and what inspires her the most about working at MySwimPro.
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 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.
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.
In this episode of The Hottest Take, Rodger Sherman says the Olympics needs to make a change, and there are two options.
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.
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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.
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