Update – The deceased has now been named as Margareth Stolvik from Melbu. People in the know say it had nothing to do with the Facebook trend – Stolvik was an active winter swimmer
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Friday evening May 2, a local woman in her 50ies was found dead in the sea near a floating dock in Melbu, Norway. She was wearing a bathing suit, and a towel was found nearby.
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A South Florida non-profit organization is pushing for water safety a day after a little boy lost his life in a swimming pool.
Kindergartners are learning swimming skills that can help save their lives at SWIM Central, a non-profit organization that focuses on water safety to prevent any more tragedies. “Should they find themselves in a situation, they’re in the water, they will self rescue,” said SWIM Central manager Jay Sanford. “If they fall in the water, they know to roll over on their back. They know to yell for help, know how to get back to the wall.”
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Chad le Clos talks about his role model, Michael Phelps, in an interview with Talk Radio 702‘s Jenny Crwys-Williams.
Le Clos recalls the first time he saw Phelps swim, at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 2004. Eight years later, at the 2012 Olympics in London, Le Clos beat his childhood hero – who was the world number one at the time – in the 200 metres butterfly final, which is documented in his memoir, Unbelievable!
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A man, yet to be officially identified, in an apparent drunken stupor decided to take swim in the Tarcoles river, in an area of the river that is known for its crocodiles.
The police report indicates that two men got off a Parrita bus and after drinking one of them decided to take swim in the river and dived in.
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The 25-year-old was one of the few British swimmers to shine at the Games, where he won 200metres breaststroke silver, one of just three medals won by Team GB in the pool.
Like many athletes, he said 2013 was hard, but that Glasgow 2014, for whom the Scot is an ambassador, enabled him to fill the void.
‘Probably a month after the Olympics finished, Glasgow started coming into view for me,’ said Jamieson.
‘Going back to university and training after London was the hardest thing I’ve ever done after all the build-up and everything. There’s a transition period and you feel deflated. Now, for me, the final in Glasgow will be the biggest race of my career, given the context.’
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Drowning is the leading cause of death for children under 5, which is why more parents are choosing to start swimming lessons early. Some are starting even before their kids can walk.
One program here in the metro promises to teach babies and toddlers how to save themselves should they fall into a pool.It’s a bit terrifying to watch at first, especially for parents looking on. “The first couple minutes you’re like, ‘What is happening!?’” said Haley Bobay, mom of two. “Some moms don’t watch. Some moms don’t look. They’re like, ‘I don’t want to see it.’”
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Renwick, 26, from Glasgow, won gold in the 200m freestyle at the 2010 games in Dehli and now hopes to repeat his winning performance in his home city.
Talking about his journey to the Games in a video for Strathmore, official water supplier of Glasgow 2014, he said: “I might be an underdog, I’m six foot one which as a swimmer is relatively small but every year I’m finding ways to get faster, to get those tiny gains.
“Having the Commonwealth Games in my home city is a huge motivation to get myself in the best possible state to deliver a gold medal.”
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Olympic champion swimmer Chad le Clos, whose memoir Unbelievable! is out now, reveals that he would have chosen to be a South African soccer star.
In an interview with SABC News, Le Clos’ dad, Bert, who played youth football with current Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund, recalls how his son started out playing football, and had to be coaxed into swimming.
“I loved football when I was younger,†Le Clos agrees, “that was my first love, as my dad says. I think, when you get to that age, my dad helped me to realise that swimming is where my future is going to be.â€
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Australian Olympic gold medal swimmer Neil Brooks and his wife Elle Brooks have won the first step in a bid to clear their names of fraud allegations.
Optus Mobile, the publisher of the OptusZoo online magazine has settled with the Brooks’ on Thursday over claims arising out of false and defamatory allegations published by it about them.
The pair have issued a statement saying they are delighted by the outcome and are extremely pleased to be finally vindicated in relation to what have been found to be false allegations.
