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  • Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of teams find different ways to promote breast cancer awareness, through pink uniforms or accessories. Spencer took it to a new level on Monday, turning a swimming pool pink for their high school swim meet.

    The pool had a slightly pink hue as the “Pink Out” was held at the Spencer Family YMCA. The meet was held in honor of Spencer swimmer Cassidy Fox, who’s mother Missy is battling breast cancer.

    The swimmers, who come from Spencer, Spirit Lake and Hartley, sold raffle tickets and one winner from each school was drawn to toss in the principal of their school.

    All the proceeds from the event will go toward the Fox family.

    “It means a lot,” said Spencer senior Taylor Sieperda. “We’ve gone to different sporting events and been there for the awareness. But now it’s personal, and so we’re really taking pride in it, and just being there for the family. It’s been really nice.”

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  • Five-time Olympic Games medallist Alicia Coutts has contemplated an immediate retirement from swimming, declaring “if I retired tomorrow, I would be satisfied with what I’ve done in the sport”.

    Canberra swimmer Coutts also hit out at the sport’s critics, saying that constant criticism was “disheartening” as she weighs up her future.

    It was speculated last week that Swimming Australia had blown its budget and would be unable to pay athletes up to $300,000 in performance bonuses.

    Coutts is yet to hear from the governing body and is training for the Australian short-course championships in Adelaide next month.

    The 27-year-old won five medals at the Olympics in 2012, she also won two gold medals at the Pan Pacs in August and is an eight-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist.

    But she says she is fighting to keep her passion and is unsure whether she wants to continue to the Rio Olympics in 2016.

    “I’m looking towards Rio and if I swim until then, I’ll be done after that,” Coutts said.

    “I have days when I think, ‘Yeah, I can swim until Rio. It’s not that far away.’ But then other days I’m ready to retire straight away.

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  • Deja the F2B Savannah cat goes swimming for the first time in the family pool. Watch as the adorable 3-month-old kitten treads water with confidence while wearing her personal life jacket.

  • Cesar Cielo is calling you to volunteer. Accept the challenge? Then BOOOORAAAA!

  • Swim for Tri coach, Dan Bullock, gives his top tips on freestyle swimming technique in the pool and in open water.

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  • He started swimming when he was nine, but today the Spanish swimmer Carlos Peralta has turned twenty and has been eight times in a row Spanish Champion in 200 meters butterfly. He also beat the national record in that category when he was 18, achieving it in later occasions. His next objective is the Rio Olympic Games.

  • Southern Connecticut State swimmer Dan Elliot was one of the best in the Northeast-10 Conference, and had big plans for this upcoming season. But Elliot’s career has been put on hold.

    His love for the water brought him to Southern.

    “I’ve been swimming since I was about eight years old. I definitely enjoyed it right away. I’ve always been around the water being from the south shore of Long Island,” Elliott said.

    As a junior, he won multiple conference championships and broke the conference record, both individually and on relays. But at Jones Beach on Long Island this summer, everything changed. Elliott was working as a lifeguard one day when a swimmer called for help.

    “It was actually the day that Hurricane Bertha was rolling in, so the swell was much bigger, and the tide was coming in and out much more quickly,” he said.

    As a lifeguard for the last five years, Elliott had probably made over 200 saves. He thought this one would be routine, but it was anything but.

    “The guy was stuck out in a rip current, and I went out to get him, and a wave was coming in, and it just happened to be bad timing,” Elliott explained. “I wound up diving and actually hitting my head. Immediately I knew something had gone wrong because I hit my head, and I felt a shock go through my entire body.”

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  • A giant squid has been filmed launching a frantic attack beneath the waves on a passing submarine.

    The ten-legged beast is seen launching itself towards the vessel, whipping its tentacles at the hull.

    People in charge of the submarine try to frighten the beast away by shining a bright light at the squid, which only enrages it further and prompts a second attack.

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