There’s a new sports craze sweeping Poland, and it looks super fun.
Like an aquatic version of tug of war for adults, all you need to play is 12 burly people and one dragon boat (which is like a competitive rowboat, but twice as wide).
There’s no official English name for the sport yet, but may we suggest “paddle wars” or “tug of oar”?
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Have you ever heard the phrase โYou are never too old to learn a new trick?โ Well, you are never too old to learn some swimming skills!
The Vigo County YMCA and the Terre Haute Torpedoes Swim Club will be hosting adult aquatics events during the month of April. And itโs not just to learn to swim because you can develop other skills such as using pool time to help you stay fit.
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The first ever world championship in ice swimming was held in the Russian Arctic Circle on March 20-22. RBTH talked with some of the participants in Murmansk about overcoming their limits and asked them whether sports can help resolve political differences.
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A private Coralville swimming instructor has a unique item in her garage: a swimming pool.
โIโm a full-time swimming teacher and I didnโt plan on that, but thatโs what I do,โ said Megan Oesting, who recently earned her masters in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Iowa.
Inside Oestingโs garage, 1400 Woolridge Dr., is a pool, decked out with a camera, mirrors and a flat screen TV.
โI can get five times more done [in the garage] than in a regular pool,โ said Oesting, a lifelong swimmer and former head coach of the Iowa Flyers Swim Club. โWe have mirrors on the bottom and the mirrors on the top and the underwater camera and the video on the side, so I can show them anything they want.โ
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Friends and relatives gathered to mourn Camille Muffat, the French Olympic 400m freestyle champion who lost her life when helicopters collided and crashed during filming for a Reality TV show in Argentina.
Live Scienceโs Elizabeth Palermo, a competitive swimmer, tested sixteen wearable waterproof devices during her pool workout: Two fitness trackers built specifically for swimmers, a few multi-sport GPS watches, a smart watch and a several waterproof trackers by Garmin, Misfit, Withings and others.
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The St Peters Western Crew talk about what becoming a Dolphin means to them.
Ahead of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on April 6th 2015 we hear from Olympians Mark Tewksbury, John Fennell and Anastasia Bucsis.
Disgraced South Korean swim star Park Tae-Hwan needs to apologise before any discussion can begin on when he might return to competition after failing a doping test, the head of the national swim federation said Wednesday.
The 18-month suspension handed down to Park by world swimming body FINA on Monday sparked debate at home over whether the four-time Olympic swimming medallist should be allowed to take part in next year’s Olympics in Rio.
The FINA ban ends in March 2016, which theoretically gives Park time to prepare for the Olympics, but a new rule instituted by the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) last year could see him miss the Rio event.
The rule bars any athlete suspended for doping from competing with the national team for three years. In Park’s case, that would bar him until March 2019 — by which time the 25-year-old would be past his best.
KOC officials have suggested there might be room for “flexibility” in enforcing the regulation.
But Lee Kee-Heung, head of the Korea Swimming Federation, said the issue of reinstating Park, a national icon in South Korea, could be discussed only after the swimmer made a full, public apology.
“First and foremost, Park Tae-Hwan should apologise to the people that he’s let down and plead for their forgiveness, and take time to reflect on himself,” Lee told reporters as he returned home after attending FINA’s hearing in Switzerland.
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