An 81-year-old Korean War veteran is making a big push to raise money for a local war memorial by making the one and a quarter mile swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco in the 19th annual Alcatraz Invitational on Sunday.
Wally Stewart got in some final training laps at the Finley Aquatic Center in Santa Rosa Thursday morning.
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Sun Yang has always been different from China‘s other top swimmers, as much a maverick as a pioneer.
And not just because he is the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. Or that he spent time in jail.
While most of China’s best swimmers prefer to keep a low profile, Sun just cannot escape the spotlight, courting drama and controversy wherever he goes.
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Lewis is the first to complete long distance swims in every one of the world’s oceans – including the waters around the melting ice cap. He’s witnessed retreating glaciers, coral bleaching and changing patterns of migration, and now focuses on raising awareness of the fragile maritime environment. He’s also swum across a lake on Mount Everest to highlight the melting Himalayan glaciers. Aside from his environmental message, Lewis reveals his survival methods for extreme challenges.
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Swimmers at SwimMAC Carolina, a nonprofit organization where world record holders and Olympians train, are using LumaLanes(tm), a system of computer-controlled pacing lights that, when placed at the pool bottom, show the swimmers their ideal pace.
Endorsed by David Marsh, the head coach, CEO and executive director at SwimMAC, the technology behind LumaLanes was developed and tested at the University at Buffalo more than 15 years ago.
The upgraded technology has been designed to be completely mobile. It includes LED, or light-emitting diode, strips that can be rolled out at the beginning of practice and rolled up at the end. Compatible with the Apple and Android operating systems, the system is controlled via smartphone, tablet or laptop.
Each lane can have up to 10 swimmers, each with their own pace color, and up to eight lanes can be connected together, with each lane running at different intervals. The training sets can be created and stored in advance of practice, and they can be created and modified during practice and stored for later use.
It has been 36 years since the Haverhill High School swim team won a state championship and for all of those years the trophy has been missing.
Back in 1978 Haverhill didn’t have a trophy case so Coach Tom McCutchan kept it with him.
“State championship, I mean that means you’re the best in the state and not too many teams can claim that anywhere. We’ve only had about a dozen here in the whole history of the school,†Haverhill Athletic Director Tom O’Brien said.
But Coach Mccutchan left the school in 1981 for a new job and took the trophy with him. It went with him from job to job, city to city. Everyone eventually forgot about it–until now.
“After all these years, he was cleaning out his closet and found this trophy and decided it was time to give it back to the school and the swimmers,†former swimmer Jefferson Davis said.
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Christina and Eusebio Saenz de Santamaria, who are record-breaking freedivers, went to Tiger Beach in the Bahamas to deep dive with tiger sharks, fulfilling a dream they’ve had for many years.
The couple, who live in a small tropical island off Thailand, trained in the Caribbean paradise in June and shot this stunning video of themselves diving with the feared creatures of the sea.
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A 2013 sex abuse case involving a D.C.-area swim coach triggered something in Danielle Bostick. It brought back memories of the pain she suffered at the hands of a man who coached her at Fairland Aquatics Center decades ago; she could no longer keep it all in.
In 1984, Bostick was a 7-year-old swimmer in a vintage photograph (see photo at left) who stood out in a bright red cap. Today, she is a grown woman, standing up as a survivor of sexual abuse.
“I just felt like I wouldn’t be in my integrity if I continued to hide and stay quiet,†she said.
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