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Jarrod Alonge Releases New Metal Parody Video, ‘The Swimmer’
Jarrod Alonge has released a br00tal (not really) new video for The Swimmer – taken from parody album Beating A Dead Horse.
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Ken Gallinger: Boycotting swim meet won’t deter Russia’s aggression
This summer, FINA, the world body for competitive swimming, will be hosting the World Masters swimming championships. I have a realistic shot at a gold medal. So what’s the issue? The venue is in Kazan, Russia, a country at war. I am not concerned about personal safety but about the ethics of holding the championships there. Would I be wrong to participate? Your reply will help decide whether to go.
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Meet the man who will swim across the Pacific
Ben Lecomte was the first man to swim across the Atlantic Ocean without a kick board in 1998. In 2015, the French-born long distance swimmer wants to reach the next level. Ben wants to swim from Tokyo to San Francisco, from July ’til December, eight hours a day, around 8000km. Here is his crazy plan…
See Redbull
https://youtu.be/Jml-3nuwBrY
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For California Swimming Pools, This Is Hardly A Dry Spell
Despite the severe drought, Californians built more backyard swimming pools in 2014 than in any year since the peak of the housing boom. And this year the state is on pace to shatter last year’s mark.
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The Zombies swim team will tackle the English Channel
Battling autism, substance abuse and learning disabilities, students from a special San Diego swim team is about to make waves in a big way.
CBS News 8’s Jeff Zevely woke up early with the Arch Academy “Zombie Patrol” as they began training for their 21-mile swim across the English Channel.
The Zombies are the Swim team of the Arch Academy, in San Diego, CA. They are a group of students with special challenges who are defying expectations and transcending limitations.
With autism, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, learning disabilities, behavioral problems, ADHD, drug or alcohol issues, these are students who are viewed by most people as having limited potential.
Last summer, the group of 14 high school students swam from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco. The Zombies then swam from Catalina Island to Palos Verdes, CA, finishing the 21-mile relay in just under 12 hours last fall
Next up? The English Channel without wet-suits or fins!
See CBS8
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D.C. public charter school requires students to learn to swim
At the 770-student Eagle Academy Public Charter School in Southeast D.C., swimming is not just recreation, it’s a requirement. The pre-K through third grade school on Wheeler Road has a pool and several swimming instructors.
On any morning around 9:30, you’ll see second and third graders going through their practice drills because the founder and director of Eagle Academy, Cassandra Pinkney, is determined. She said back when she attended Howard University, learning to swim was a requirement for graduation. Though Howard’s since dropped that requirement, Pinkney thought it was a great idea and brought it to her school.
“Every student in this school will swim when they leave Eagle Academy,” said Pinkney, “and we have started by phasing in starting with our third graders, the second graders and we’ll move down to our pre-K.”
She wants the African American children who make up her student body to go against the grain.
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Glow-In-The-Dark Shark Filmed Swimming Off California Coast
Researchers have filmed a shark that glows in the dark off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, descending into the depths in order to document the animals in near complete darkness.
See Inquisitr
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Swimclinics with Sebastiaan Verschuren
See swimclinics.nl
