Spaniard Hugo Gonzalez speak about his performances at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships and mastering the transition from junior to senior level!
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Ramsay Refuses to Swim in Disgusting Hotel Pool | Hotel Hell
Be warned, the second half of this clip is disgusting.
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Russian Divers at the Universiade- 29th Summer Universiade 2017, Taipei, Chinese Taipei
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Willard “Wink” Lamb, 94-year-old world record swimmer
Willard “Wink” Lamb of Vancouver, Wash., talks about setting 49 world age-group swimming records, all since he turned 86.
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Andrew Abruzzo: “It’s like a dream!” | FINA World Junior Swimming Championships
Andrew Abruzzo shares his thoughts about participating at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships and swimming in a legendary pool on home soil!
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Korea’s Haenyeo Female Freedivers Brave Freezing Waters and a Changing Culture
A group of women walk along a seashore. The water’s cold, but they pull on their goggles, shrug into lead-weighted wet suits and wade in wearing flippers. They disappear beneath the water and embark on a free dive to the ocean floor, capturing sea urchins by hand. It’s winter on the tiny Korean island of Jeju, which means the sea urchins are plentiful. For hours, the women agilely and efficiently harvest sea creatures while the air above the waterline hovers around 30 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 1 degree Celsius). These are the haenyeo — the “sea women” of South Korea. And they are a dying breed.
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100-metre world record holder Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse
World record holder for the women’s 100-metre backstroke, Canadian Kylie Masse shares her experience setting the world record in Budapest this summer.
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Kim Kuk Hyang, aspiring diver from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – 29th SU 2017 TAIPEI
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Polish swimmer tackles the Baltic Sea, swims to Denmark
A Polish champion swimmer has reportedly swum non-stop across the Baltic Sea from Poland to the Danish isle of Bornholm in what Polish authorities are calling a tremendous feat.
Marcin Przeworski, a helper to 26-year-old swimmer Sebastian Karas, said Karas started from Poland’s port city of Kolobrzeg on Monday evening. He tells The Associated Press that after more than 28 hours in the water, Karas reached a Bornholm beach, having covered 100 kilometers (62 miles). He says Karas was in a wetsuit and getting warm blended food every 40 minutes.
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