A local swimmer says he owes his life to two young lifeguards at a pool in Fort Mill.
Scott Shull went unconscious during his routine morning swim and the girls used a defibrillator to get his heart beating again.
“That really puts it into perspective because you never know when something can happen,” said Chynna Norman.
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On most college campuses right now students are packing up to go home for summer or starting summer classes. But CCSUsophomore Maddy Garber is headed to the pool.
The sophomore Blue Devil is one of the top breast stroke swimmers in the country. And she’s made it a long way: last summer she qualified for the 100-meter breast stroke for the Olympic trials, and now she’s headed back to trials this summer for a chance to make it to Rio. Except this time, she’s trying out for two events.
“To make it on the Olympic team you have to be top two in your event. So, I’m about 80th right now in both of my events, so we’ll see where that brings me.”
But she’s not too concerned with her placement. “I just want to take in the experience, honestly, I never even thought i would get this far.”
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The sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, is most likely to be seen in British rivers at this time of year as the adults swim upstream to spawn.
They are remarkable creatures but good looks are not one of their attributes. They resemble an eel and have a permanently open mouth with a great number of teeth. They also have some nasty parasitic habits.
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about them is that they have been around since well before the dinosaurs, and with 360-million-year-old fossils looking remarkably like modern lampreys, they are said to be the oldest vertebrates.
Having thrived all that time they have suffered greatly in the UK from pollution and human interference with the flow of rivers, which has prevented them reaching their spawning grounds.
However, the cleaning up of the rivers and provision of passes to allow them to get round weirs and other obstructions has allowed them to recolonize rivers that had not seen a lamprey for many years, including the Great Ouse, Trent, Derwent and Wear.
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A 23-year-old woman who was bitten by a small nurse shark Sunday in Boca Raton, Florida, and hospitalized with the shark still attached to her arm has been released.
Crews arrived at Boca Raton Beach in Red Reef Park to find the 23-year-old female with a 2-foot nurse shark still attached to her right forearm, according to Boca Raton Fire Rescue Services.
The shark had been killed prior to the Fire Department’s arrival at 1400 N. Ocean Boulevard, but it was still attached to her arm.
Twenty-year-old Ophelia Swayne, Ghana’s fastest swimmer, is trying to raise funds to achieve her dream of becoming Ghana’s first woman swimmer to make it to the Olympics.
The freestyle and butterfly specialist needs to shave just a second off her time to qualify for this year’s Olympics in Rio, Brazil. She has however indicated that Ghana’s Olympic Committee is willing to foot the cost of her flight bill and the rest is up to her.
The President of Ghana Swimmer Association, Theophilus Wilson Edzie, decried that funding allocated to the federation is inadequate. “ … the funding is not there for us…we are a small sports growing against bigger sports… the big sports get the bigger chunk of money,†he lamented.
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Bob Bowman‘s book, “The Golden Rules,â€came out Tuesday, and the decorated Olympic swimming coach discussed it with Matt Lauer on TODAY.
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The AquaSonic band would amaze you with their unique and somewhat weird way of performing music. This is because the members of the band can sing and play musical instruments underwater.
Italy, Hungary open strong, three medals apiece
Italy and Hungary got a flying start on the opening day of the swimming competition at the European Aquatics Championships in the London Aquatics Centre by clinching three medals apiece. Gabriele Detti (ITA) and Katinka Hosszu (HUN) captured the individual golds on offer, and both nations got two more medals. In the free relays the Netherlands and France finished atop, both with quite convincing performances.
Four years ago, in this pool, Katinka Hosszu aimed to clock a 4:30 time and finally earn an Olympic medal on the opening day in the 400m IM – but in the end she left empty-handed: the Hungarian finished 4th at the Olympics and heard the most dreadful sentence of her life from her then-coach in the team area when she asked, ‘what’s next?’. ‘Open a beauty salon in Budapest,’ was the answer and the Hungarian swimmer felt the utmost bitterness at that very moment. Soon she was set to quit but her boyfriend (now her husband and coach) Shane Tusup saved her – ultimately for swimming. If she had clinched the silver then – the times she clocked today in the heats (4:30.97) and in the final (4:30.90), both with ease, would have been more than enough to come second in 2012 – her journey might have been different.
But the mental process required to bounce back made her tough, and today the Iron Lady showed something extraordinary: two Championship records in the 400m IM, her third straight title, plus two great swims in the 200m back, the second one in the semis, just 15 minutes after the 400m IM final. She is set to do something big on Tuesday when she will switch back to top gear for the backstroke as well.
In the medley, the hosts also celebrated their first medal, courtesy of Hannah Miley, while the other Hungarian, Zsuzsanna Jakabos, came third.
Italy’s Gabriele Detti managed to step forward, after clinching bronze medals in Berlin 2014 (800m, 1500m), silvers and bronzes at the short-course Europeans (came second in 2012 and third in 2015 in this event) now he finished atop at a big event, for the first time in his career. And he did it in style, with a seemingly effortless swim, setting a Championship record, gaining 2:48sec on the field. Causing a pleasant surprise even for himself, Norway’s Henrik Christiansen captured the silver, while Peter Bernek (HUN) out-touched Felix Auboeck (AUT) for the bronze by 0.07sec.
In the relays the Dutch women team returned to the throne after eight long years. With a couple of 52sec legs in the mix – the only ones in the final – their win was never in danger. The battle for the silver favoured Italy, who hit the wall 0.16sec ahead of the Swedes.
Among the men, the French quartet retained their title. This was a more exciting race but in the end their winning margin was 0.81sec. The fight for the minor spoils was tremendous, though. Three teams arrived at the wall in a span of 0.13sec, the Italians edged out the Belgians by 0.01 sec for the silver, though Pieter Timmers (BEL) swam like hell on the anchor leg. He had the biggest blast in the final, 47.37, which brought his team from fourth place to third (almost second), to the sadness of the Greeks who nearly caused an upset by reaching the podium.
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The swim champ is either pulling our chain, or has started a pool cleaning business.
Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe has launched what looks to be a premium pool cleaning business.
The former Olympic champion announced the new business via his personal Twitter account on Friday afternoon.
“After months of keeping it on the down low, I’m excited to launch my next venture,†the swimmer affectionately known as ‘Thorpie’ wrote.
The website for Thorpedo Pool Cleaning currently features a countdown clock with two days remaining.
It also features a bizarre, high-production short film, in which the swimmer channels cult film character Derek Zoolander amidst a dramatic storm.
“How does one clean what they cannot hold?†asks Thorpie in dulcet tones, as he holds a pool net against a dark background.
With all the pouting and satire, it’s difficult to know whether the sporting legend is pulling our leg, or whether he’s committing marketing genius.
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