5-time Olympian Dara Torres stopped by “Kilmeade and Friends†and talked to Brian about “Swim Today†a program that helps educate parents about how healthy swimming can be.
Dara explained that it actually isn’t a one on one sport because when you are part of the team you always have your teammates around you and cheering you on. They also talked about the sexual marketing of female athletes.
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It’s been nearly two months since the Wellness & Aquatics Complex in Maury County closed but there’s now a new push to reopen the facility’s pools, according to county leaders.
Formerly the Maury County YMCA, the WAC was losing money and could not come up with the funding to stay open. It closed in late April.
Former members said the pools were more than just a place where people exercised. They were a place where local swim teams practiced and competed.
Maury Regional Medical Center also used the indoor pool for aquatic therapy. Since shutting its doors, the hospital has not been able to offer aquatic therapy to its patients.
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Memphis police and fire departments were called to a scene where a man was swimming naked in the Mississippi River.
Emergency crews, including the Coast Guard, tried to help him get out of the water, but the man refused their help and continued swimming.
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In the part of Mote Marine that visitors see, three-foot-long bonnethead sharks show off in a multi-windowed tank.
In a nearby shallow pool, Atlantic stingrays, whose barbs have been snipped to make them safe enough for a toddler to touch, circle endlessly.
Beyond the employees-only door, research scientists headed by Carl A. Luer have spent decades studying the miraculous ways in which bonnetheads defend themselves from cancer, and the way in which Atlantic stingrays and related species grow their own antibiotics.
It is quite possible that a child touching a stingray at Mote today could someday be saved by an antibiotic or an anti-cancer medicine that originated there.
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South African President Jacob Zuma will not have to repay public money spent on ‘security upgrades’ to his private residence that included a swimming pool and chicken run, the police minister announced Thursday.
Finding that all the upgrades were for necessary for the safety of the head of state, Nkosinathi Nhleko told a news conference: “The state president is therefore not liable to pay for any of the security features.”
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Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps met Friday with the Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Baltimore at the Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center to promote water safety.
Olympic breaststroke gold medallist Cameron van der Burgh says he needs to remain among the top swimmers in his specialist event this year if he is to successfully defend his title at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Van der Burgh made a good start to the season with the fourth fastest time in the world this year of 59,78 seconds at the South African National Aquatic Championships in Durban in April.
“The main goal in the year before the Olympic Games is to try and be in contention for the gold next year,†Van der Burgh said at the side of the pool at his base at the University of Pretoria on Wednesday. “If you are not in the medals this year, you are sort of falling behind and in 2011 the main goal for me was to work my way up to the 100m breaststroke and get up there.â€
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If you are a beginner when it comes to swimming in open water, we give some valuable tips if for a safe session.
Big wave surfing ain’t for the faint of heart, or breath for that matter. Mark Mathews shows us how the most elite big wave riders train themselves to bare with multi-wave hold downs, and the gnarly conditions that come with taking on giant waves that the surfers may face at Red Bull Cape Fear 2015: A head-to-head surf contest where the world’s best will battle it out on one of the gnarliest waves in Australia.
