Cameron van der Burgh, who is preparing to compete at his third Olympics at the Rio Games, joked yesterday that he’s getting old after finding himself surrounded by new young faces at a weekend gala.
“There were all these kids and I didn’t know who they were.
“I was thinking ‘where did they come from’? I’m getting old,” said a smiling Van der Burgh at a media day at the Tuks-aligned High Performance Centre in Pretoria.
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Gregory Burns interview with world record holder free diver Christian Redl who shares his passion for diving and sharks.
Filmed by my father, Bengt Lagus in the 1960´s, I have edited the material. The water temperature was something between 15-18 degrees Celsius this day and it felt really cold for the children, also the air temperature was below 20 C.. The swimming “school” was in Luvia (Verkkoranta) Finland. I have also in the early 1970´s been at this swimming school and we then still did it the same way as here !
Cold swimming in Novosibirsk, January 2016
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It was fun in the sun at the annual swimming gala held on 5 February 2016. Residences showed off their colours and cheered their swimmers to victory.
Sports Editors Sumner Higginbotham ’16 and Nick Cipolla ’17 make a splash in the Campus Recreation pool to see if their swimming skills hold any water.
Polish Open Winter Swimming Championships
Silesia Winter Swimming 2016
January 23, 2016 Katowice
Ice-hole swimming is a traditional Russian fun. Winter swimmers are called “walruses†here. “Lipetsk Walrus Club” exists for over 60 years and since then a lot of people have joined our healthy lifestyle community. Winter swimming is popular not only among seniors but also among young people. Lipetsk ‘walruses’ enjoy the cold water as well as the cold air and go for a swim at any time of the day or night! :)
https://youtu.be/rBEV_bqbijk
Four-time Olympic Medalist and USA Swimming Foundation Ambassador, Cullen Jones, discusses the cultural barriers that influence the lack of African-American involvement in the sport of swimming. He shares his thoughts on the evolution of the sport and the necessary steps to make the sport more inclusive.
