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A Mooresville woman is recovering after she was bitten by a shark while in the ocean near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.
Kimberly Popp says she was in the water about knee-deep on Tuesday afternoon at Coligny Beach when something hit her foot and she felt the bite.
When she lifted her leg out of the water, she saw a shark latched on to her foot.
“We looked eye to eye,” she said.
She punched the shark in the nose until it let go.
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A group of young swimmers on the Grand Strand got a chance to learn from an Olympic athlete Friday.
2012 Olympic silver medalist Elizabeth Beisel is in town for a clinic with the Myrtle Beach Riptides.
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You might have read this story for instance on SwimVortex May 8th was suspended indefinetely due to a violation of team rules.
“We are disappointed in some of the choices Dan Wallace made,” head coach Gregg Troy said in a statement released by Florida Athletics, without any nearer explanation of what caused the suspension.
Now you can read for instance on Edinburgh News that Wallace was arrested in the US for urinating on a police car.
If it does result in his being thrown off Team Scotland, it would be a personal disaster for the 21-year-old and his parents Derek and Tanya, who sold the family home to pay for his fees at the University of Florida.
Ouch.
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SwimMAC Carolina head coach David Marsh follows an unconventional training path that could help change the sport of swimming.
A half-century of tradition has had swimmers in the pool by 5Â a.m. to swim hundreds of laps daily.
But Marsh doesn’t think it’s important to spend hours in the pool each day, amassing laps.
He’s among a coaching vanguard who believe athletes benefit by swimming fewer laps at a faster pace. Intensity matters.
The Faroe Islands Swimming Association is today hosting the annual Nordic Congress and Board Meeting, in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. On the agenda is among other things the formal inclusion of the Estonian Swimming Federation as full member of the Nordic Swimming Federation, and rule changes proposed by the Nordic General Secretary and Sports Director Meeting in Stockholm in January.
So there, Faroese brand Sirri has launched a smart wool jumper named after long distance swimmer Pál Joensen, the profit going to the 50 meter pool that is being built in Pál’s (and Sirri’s) hometown of Vágur, Faroe Islands. Lucky Danes can buy the jumper at the Frigg Festival in Copenhagen, this weekend, for the laughable cheap price of DKK 950 (remember, this is real, non-synthetic, viking wool)
(Pál and girlfriend Malan Vitalis Bærendsen)
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Disappointing performances by Australia’s swimmers at the 2012 London Olympics might have been partly due to a poor understanding of the history and strong traditions of their predecessors.
Olympic historian Harry Gordon believes a better knowledge of the spirit of Australian teams at past Games might have helped prevent the internal ruptures in London that left the swimmers bringing home only one gold medal, from the 4x100m women’s freestyle relay.
“A lack of respect for the past converted into a lack of inspiration,” Gordon said at the launch of his latest book From Athens With Pride – The Official History of the Australian Olympic Movement 1894-2014.
Gordon, the Australian Olympic Committee’s (AOC) official historian since 1992, quoted late friend and AFL coaching great Allan Jeans: “To know where you are going, you need to know where you have been.”
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A couple of days before Kyle Chalmers was due to flew to Sydney for the national age swimming championships this year, the 15-year-old decided to go to a high school football training and “have a kick with the lads”. Chalmers, the son of former Crows and Power ruckman, Brett Chalmers, returned from the session, with a cracked index finger on his right hand when the ball hit it awkwardly.
After he finished competing at the meet, which he took part in after defying initial medical opinion that he should rest for up to eight weeks – he became the latest promising junior swimming star to be lumped with the label of the “next Ian Thorpe”.
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