It might be in the 20s outside, but that didn’t stop one man from trying to swim across the Chicago River. Luckily for him, a security guard spotted him in trouble, and police officers helped pull him to safety. CBS 2’s Vi Nguyen reports.
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Coach Erik Mandell of the Minnechaug swim team was honored by his current and past swimmers.
British Para Swimmer Ellie Challis was inspired to swim by Winter – a Dolphin with no tail. Ellie’s arms and legs were amputated after she caught viral meningitis as a baby. Since 2013 she meets Winter every year which gave her the motivation to start Swimming. Her biggest dream is to compete at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020.
Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe was born to be a swimmer, but it wasn’t necessarily the sport his parents had in mind.
An Australian household name, Thorpe admits “I was supposed to be a cricket player”.
“My father was a very good cricket player,” he tells Luke Grant.
“They actually planned my date of birth so I’d have a good age for cricket… turns out to be a terrible one for swimming.”
The sporting champion says he got into the pool after getting “bored” watching his sister swim at carnivals.
“I had all these problems with my sinuses,” says the 36-year-old.
“It turns out I’m allergic to chlorine, and I still wanted to swim though because I enjoyed it.”
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A 15-year-old girl in Perth, Australia, had just stepped into the ocean for a swim Monday morning when she felt something with sharp teeth latch onto her left foot.
Isabella Brett-Jensen shook free of the predator, but was bleeding profusely.
“Bits of my foot or like flesh actually fell off as I was walking up . Brett-Jensen, who was swimming at North Cottesloe Beach, told 9 News. “There was blood everywhere.”
Based on the spherical shape of the wound, which required 10 stitches to close, the predator was determined to have been a wobbegong shark.
Wobbegong, in Australian Aboriginal language, translates to “shaggy beard.” Wobbegong sharks feature dermal lobes around their mouths, lending the appearance of a beard.
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Cake tutorial to show you how I make this swimming pool cake. In this video I am using Saracino sugarpaste and Saracino modelling paste.
