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Former Aussie swimming champion Michael Klim has enjoyed a family day out, in the buff!
The picture of the 36 year old emerged on his wife’s Instagram page on Monday morning.
Lindy wrote: “Too good not to post!!! @michaelklim1 has finally found his people!!
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Adolph Kiefer, a 96-year-old Chicago area swimmer who won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, talks about his lifetime of swimming. Kiefer is also an inventor and innovator of new products related to aquatics competition.
http://youtu.be/XWBa-X4z4D0
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She has been our colleague, our friend, and a local businesswoman.
It has been the life, after swimming, for Ariana Kukors. She spent the Sochi Olympics serving as a special correspondent for our local newscasts.
It was there, while watching the Olympic cauldron, that something sparked within the 25-year-old.
“(We) were standing together when the Olympic cauldron lit up, and I didn’t realize what the Olympics meant to me until that moment,†said the Auburn native. “I need to do this, it’s so amazing. I need to do this.â€
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Charlie Christianson is 94-years-old and still swims in the ocean every single day. Olympic swimmer Libby Trickett chats with Charlie about his life and love for the beach.
http://youtu.be/1NdgePH_QG4
In this web episode we follow Mark Addison of South Africa’s Blue Wilderness free-diving with tiger sharks at Aliwal Shoal. Mark explains his passion for these majestic creatures.
http://youtu.be/fr4pFkYWEH8
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Katie Ledecky put an exclamation point on a thrilling meet this afternoon with a world record in the women’s 800m free during the final day of racing at The Woodlands Senior Invite.
Ledecky, who lowered her own world record in the 1500m free on Thursday, broke her second world record of the meet with an 8:11.00 in the 800m free. She cut almost three seconds off her own standard of 8:13.86 from last summer’s FINA World Championships, and was pretty much racing the clock as teammate Isabella Rongione finished almost 30 seconds behind in 8:39.13.
He has chalked up hundreds of kilometres in the water but it is the countless hours swimmer Daniel Tranter has spent throwing leather in a sweaty Campbelltown boxing gymnasium that has braced him to ”fight” every inch of the the 200-metre individual medley event at next month’s Commonwealth Games.
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With the summer months comes the return to the nice, cool water for some relief … and the danger that comes with it.
So the Buffalo City Swim Racers held their fist Water Safety Festival at City Honors School on Saturday. They’re teaching kids how to stay safe in the water this summer with a focus on the minority community.
That’s because the CDC says African Americans aged 5 to 14 years of age are three times as likely to drown as white children of the same age.
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