’If there is one tiny piece that they can take home with them, we have done what we wanted’ said Shane Tusup head coach after the special swim clinic of Iron Aquatics held on Sunday. If they feel good, improve and make more friends, it is even better, added the participant children.
One of the recurring lines that Ariana Kukors Smith says she heard from her swim coach Sean Hutchison was that she was “the most impressive person” he had ever met.
Olympic medal counts don’t really show you which nation was the most successful, because larger countries have a huge advantage. There’s a better way to measure a nation’s Olympic success.
Watch an ice cold trivia battle between Shane Benaud vs. Daniel Bergeson hosted by finnish native Mirko Lahti. What is a “Teräsuoja”? How long is the Red Bull Crashed Ice track in Jyväskylä? Do you know? Find out the answers and watch the loser freeze…Suomi Style.
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.
This episode explores the nutrition required to take on this epic challenge. Ross shares his typical daily 15,000 calorie diet and heads up to Keswick, North England, for further training with Keri-Anne Payne.
Ahtari, a Finnish city with only around 6,000 residents, became lively as thousands of ice swimming enthusiasts gathered for the annual national championship recently.
Pune-based swimmer, Rohan More became the first Asian as well as the first Indian to swim across the Ocean Seven. Rohan is the youngest person in the world to swim across the Ocean Seven. The Ocean’s Seven marathon consists of seven long-distance open-water swims, which includes the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Tsugaru Strait and the Strait of Gibraltar. The swimming marathon is widely considered equivalent to the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. With this, More becomes only the ninth person in the world to complete it. After waiting for a long time, due to bad weather conditions, Rohan got the chance to swim on February 9. He is a national figure and has received the Tenzing Norgay Award from the Indian Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The award, also known as the National Adventure Award, was presented by President Ram Nath Kovind.
The annual Polar Bear Swim in Vernon proved to be a success.
A Southern California swim coach said he had reported rumors of former Team USA assistant swim coach Sean Hutchison being in a forbidden relationship with a U.S. champion swimmer at an Olympic training center years ago, CBS Los Angeles reports. The revelation about Hutchison comes after the swimmer, Ariana Kukors, said this week that he sexually abused her when she was 16.
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