Michael Phelps once said 10,000 meters was the distance that challenged him most in training and now any swimmer can join the Olympic champion and swim the virtual 10,000m around the bay in Phelps’ home town of Baltimore, taking in the Inner Harbour, the Patapsco River, and, the historic Fort McHenry.
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” Five-time Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Lochte is back in the water following a freak injury.
Lochte was training with SwimMAC’s Team Elite at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center Wednesday.”
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“Ben Lecomte will conquer the Pacific Ocean, swimming from Tokyo, Japan to San Francisco, U.S.A., in the summer of 2014. Ben set the record for the first man to swim the Atlantic in 1998.”
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Students at Craigflower Elementary School heard about “physical literacy†on Monday from an expert source — two-time Olympic swimmer Ryan Cochrane.
“It’s about playing with friends, it’s about finding what you like,†said the 25-year-old Victoria resident. “Maybe it’s not swimming. Maybe it’s running. Maybe it’s trying a new thing you never tried before.â€
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Free-divers, who take a breath, swim as deep into the ocean as possible and then come back up, come to Dahab from across the world to compete. But a diver’s death in November has raised questions about the safety of the sport, with some divers saying too little has been done to cut down on overly ambitious competitors and common injuries.
At a recent competition in Dahab — the first since diver Nick Mevoli died in the Bahamas — a dozen competitors had strung their yellow buoys out in a row across the blue hole. Each buoy had a weighted rope attached, which the divers followed down into the blue abyss.
One … two … then three minutes would go by. And then, a diver would come back up with a tag that proved he had reached the bottom.
But not all the scheduled divers competed that day. Maxim Iskander, a Canadian-Egyptian free-diver, withdrew from competition because of an injury known as a lung squeeze.
“How did I know? I spit a little bit of blood,” Iskander says. “Not that much, but enough to tell you, OK, something happened.”
“I’ve been doing this for about seven or eight years, but always out at Dana Point or Long Beach – never around the pier,†said the 27-year-old, whose father, Mike Ali, owns Zack’s.
With his LED flashlight guiding him, Ali scrounged around the pier pilings, diving to about 16 feet deep when he spotted the “bug.â€
Ali said he was going after a smaller lobster when he noticed the super-sized version hiding in the structure left behind by one of the old piers.
After resurfacing to catch his breath, he dove down to the same location, stuck half his body in the hole, and grabbed the lobster from behind.
Quickly, a battle of who was holding onto whom ensued. Ali said the lobster kicked backwards, latching onto his mask and face.
“There was no way my hand could wrap around his back to grab him, but luckily he latched onto me,†Ali said.
