Around 100 sports enthusiasts stripped down to their underwear in wintry conditions to hold a “naked pig run” in Xi’an, capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province on Sunday to launch a winter swimming activity. http://www.cctvplus.com/news/20180227…
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Para-swimmer Rosie Bancroft appeals for stolen prosthetic leg’s return
ParalympicsGB hopeful Rosie Bancroft, who swims for the City of Manchester team, had hidden the limb in the back seat of her blue Fiat 500 convertible.
The car was stolen from outside her house in Manchester on Saturday night.
The 23-year-old said her vehicle had been specially adapted, including the positioning of the accelerator pedal, so “we’re hoping they didn’t get far”.
Ms Bancroft, originally from Oxford, is studying at the University of Manchester and coaches the swimming club team.
Born without her lower right leg, she needs the prosthetic for running and training in the gym.
It was tailored to her height and weight after “months of painful fittings” and is of no value to anyone else, she said.
“I can’t really walk very far with my other leg and without a car as well it’s going to be hard to get around.”
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Please RT!! My car with my running prosthetic leg in has been stolen. Anyone in Manchester City centre sees it pls let us know @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/eHfNyAGRPq
— Rosie Bancroft (@rosie_bancroft1) February 25, 2018
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Russian Freediver Swims Record 100 Meters Under Baikal’s Half-Meter-Thick Ice
A Russian freediver and the freezing but beautiful waters of Lake Baikal– what brought them together? It appears that an astonishing new sports record has.
On February 25, freediver Dmitry Sokolov swam 100 meters under a 50 cm-thick sheet of ice covering the world’s largest freshwater lake: Baikal, in Russia’s Siberia. He managed to hold his breath for a record 1 minute and 37 seconds, the head of the project “The Irkutsk Region Record Book” Galina Azheeva told RIA Novosti.
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Russian ice swimmers brave -10C temperatures
Competitors aged from 11 to 70 participated in Russia’s Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad…
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A Winter Swim in Lake Michigan
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Meet The Toxic Swimmer
Meet the man who swims in toxic waterways, Christopher Swain.
As part of his mission to protect threatened waterways, Christopher Swain was the first person in history to swim the entire lengths of the Columbia, Charles, Hudson, Mohawk, and Mystic Rivers, as well as Lake Champlain, the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, and large sections of the Atlantic coast of the United States.
During his swims, Swain has survived collisions with boats, 12-foot waves, lightning storms, class IV+ rapids, waterfalls, logjams, toxic blue-green algae, blood-sucking Lamprey Eels, oil slicks, raw sewage spills, Great White Shark habitat, and water laced with arsenic, cyanide, dioxin, radioactive waste, PCBs and neuro-toxic pesticides.
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Adam Peaty: British Champs 2018
We popped down to British Swimming’s National Centre Loughborough to talk about British Champs 2018 and racing at the RCP in Edinburgh.
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Races Swimmers DREAM Of | Cody Miller Vlog_24
Truly inspiring real life story of a swimmer who made himself more talented.
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The swim | Strongman Swimming E4
Strongman Swimming documents Ross Edgley’s incredible attempt to swim 40km with a 100lb tree tied to him between the Caribbean islands of St Lucia and Martinique.
Finally, after months of training and preparation Ross heads to the start line to take on his challenge which no one has ever before tried, let alone completed.