Read Swimming great Kieren Perkins has revealed a panic attack nearly led him to abandon an Olympic gold-medal-winning race that became one of the most enduring moments in Australian sporting history.
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Two 38-Story Skyscrapers Connected At The Top With A Pool Bridge
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These is the almost 600 apartment Sky Habitat currently being built in Singapore. The 38-story towers will have three 50-meter bridges connecting the two. The top one of which will be a pool. It looks like the perfect place to get out of the pool and die. “I suspect the deceased was trying to cheat at Marco Polo and got out on the wrong side of the pool. He was dry by the time he hit the ground,” the coroner’s report will read.
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Black Kids Can’t Swim, But It’s Not Because They’re Black
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Swimming pools are a much greater danger to black children and teens than they are to other kids, a new government study shows.
Black children ages 5 to 19 drown in swimming pools at a rate more than five times that of white children, the research found. That suggests a lot of blacks are not learning to swim, said the lead author, Dr. Julie Gilchrist of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Swimming is a life-saving skill, not just another sport, she said.
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Ice swimmer Andrew Ryan goes from Redcliffe to Rovaniemi chasing love
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Ryan, 33, a born and raised Queenslander, is based in London where he works as a lawyer for a US firm that buys and markets the digital rights to sporting events. When his Finnish girlfriend Inka Karppinen took him home to meet her family in 2008, she introduced him to the local custom of ice swimming.
Basically the Finns cut a hole in the ice, dunk themselves in the freezing water for a few seconds then head to the sauna. Ryan said he’d give it a go.
“It’s amazing what you’ll do when there’s a blonde involved,†he said.
Photo by Tarja Ryhannen Mitrovic
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Rebecca Adlington: ‘I never wanted to be famous’
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“You never know about [becoming a household name] until it happens to you. I didn’t expect anything to happen. After Beijing I didn’t have a manager, I’d never even considered having any profile. I’ve never been one of those people that wanted to be famous, and you don’t get into swimming to be famous. For me it was just a case of, ‘oh god, what do I do?’. It was more overwhelming and then I just had to try to get used to it. It was still a bit like, ‘why do people want to come up and talk to me?’ or have a photo, I just didn’t really ever expect it to happen. I certainly didn’t expect it to happen to myself, so it just took a bit of getting used to, but at the same time it’s not like I’m Madonna!
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Swimming Pool Chemicals Send Thousands to ERs, CDC Says
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Each year thousands of Americans are injured by the chemicals designed to keep swimming pools safe, a new government report finds.
In 2012, 4,876 people landed in the emergency room after being injured by pool chemicals, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate.
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Olympic swim coach David Marsh: Charlotte has severe shortage of water space
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Michael Phelps is in Charlotte swimming in the Arena Grand Prix. The sport of swimming is increasing in popularity in Charlotte with Olympians paying regular visits for meets and some training here year round.
But Ryan Lochte’s coach says there is a severe shortage of water space in the Charlotte region.
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Michael Phelps chalks up first win in comeback
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Michael Phelps was back in familiar waters and on top of the winner’s podium in his comeback to competitive swimming at the U.S. Grand Prix in Charlotte on Friday.
Competing for just the second time since retiring after the 2012 London Olympics, Phelps ticked off all the important boxes he needed to.
In the morning heats, he tested his stamina by entering two lung-sapping events – the 200 metres freestyle and 100m butterfly – then in the evening finals, he tested his speed by winning the 100m butterfly final.
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Pál 100 Times Faroe Champ
Yesterday evening at the 2014 Faroese (Short Course) Championships, Pál Joensen reached his 100th championships gold medal. Here counting also relays, tonight he might reach it in individual events. So yeah, #notenoughfingers ! :-)
Bartal is keeping tabs
- 2004 (VS): 1 silver
- 2005 (VS): 3 silver, 2 bronze
- 2006 (VS): 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
- 2007 (VS): 10 gold, 1 bronze
- 2008 (SuSvim): 15 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze
- 2009 (SuSvim): 14 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
- 2010 (SuSvim): 13 gold, 4 silver
- 2011 (SuSvim): 11 gold, 6 silver
- 2012 (SuSvim): 11 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze
- 2013 (SuSvim): 14 gold, 2 silver
- 2014 (SuSvim): 10 gold, 1 silver, 2/3 through the meet