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  • Freediver Ant Williams: Why I want to dive 70 metres below ice

    Feb 25, 2019

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    in Freediving

    Ant Williams has swum 223 meters on a single breath. He has freedived to 100m and held his breath for 8 minutes.

    His next freediving challenge is sub-zero Arctic depths.

    The 46-year-old wants to break the world record for the deepest ice dive. The record, set in 2015, is 65m on a single breath.

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  • Impala player drowns in club swimming pool

    Feb 25, 2019

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    in Safety

    Impala Saracens full back Richard Sindindi Otieno has passed on after drowning in a swimming pool today morning. Sindindi is reported to have drowned while on a routine swimming exercise at the Impala Sports Club swimming pool. As a player, Sindindi was involved in both sevens and fifteens rugby and has played for impala Saracens since 2011 after he joined the club from Kisumu rugby football club.

  • UCONN Men’s Swimming and Diving // 2019 Hype Video

    Feb 25, 2019

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    in Competition

  • Woman pulled unconscious from Rottnest Channel Swim

    Feb 25, 2019

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    in Health, Open Water, Safety

    A 47-year-old woman is in a critical but stable condition after a serious incident during the Rottnest Channel Swim at the weekend.

    The woman suffered a “serious health incident” while participating in the annual event on Saturday morning.

    According to Rottnest Channel Swim Association president Iain McCarrey, the woman received medical support while she was still in the water, near the finish line, before a rescue boat brought her to shore.

    The woman was briefly treated on land for medical complications before a helicopter airlifted her to Fiona Stanley Hospital, where she was put in an induced coma.

    She has remained in the coma since Saturday and is currently in a critical but stable condition.

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  • Japanese Scientists Are Trying To Keep ‘Guerilla Rainstorms’ From Ruining The Olympics

    Feb 23, 2019

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    in Competition

    What’s worse than rain on your wedding day or on your parade? Rain during your outdoor athletic event at the Olympics.

    Japanese researchers are scrambling to test new technology that would allow them to detect sudden torrential downpours known as “guerrilla rainstorms” 30 minutes before they start. They hope to have the radars ready for the 2020 Olympics. Sudden rainstorms, which are common to Tokyo during the summer, have the potential to disrupt many of the outdoor sporting events. Early warning wouldn’t stop that, but it would give organizers a chance to cover up fields and get athletes out of the rain.

    In addition to torrential downpours, Tokyo organizers are also worried about scorching temperatures disrupting the Games, endangering the well-being of both athletes and spectators. Tokyo, like many other cities around the world, experienced record high temperatures last summer, and 96 people in Japan died of heatstroke.

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  • Does Israel’s Dead Sea Live Up To The Hype? | Destination Debunkers

    Feb 21, 2019

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    in Nature

    Insider’s A.C. Fowler heads to the Dead Sea in Israel. Is it worth the trip and a bucket list must, or is it a total travel nightmare? A.C. will rate it on how crowded it is, if the mud bath works, and how well you can float in the salty Dead Sea.

  • Our Burj Al Arab Swim returns on March 8th 2019

    Feb 21, 2019

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    in Open Water

    Dubai Holding Burj Al Arab Swim is back this year on March 8th, presenting you with a chance to swim around one of the most iconic buildings in the world to raise funds that support obesity research by Al Jalila Foundation.

  • Day in the Life of a College Swimmer | Meet Day

    Feb 21, 2019

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    in Competition

    Day in the Life of a Student Athlete Part Two! Come along with me and my team to our last meet of the season.. CONFERENCE! #swoll #grind #studentathlete

  • What Supplements Do I Take? – The Cody Miller Show

    Feb 21, 2019

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    rokur
    in Competition, Health

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