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In 2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad successfully fulfilled her lifelong dream of completing the 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida.
She stopped by News 8 Wednesday as she came through Dallas to serve as keynote speaker for the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center’s 7th annual luncheon. Nyad shared the personal story that made her want to join the cause.
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The news that Michael Phelps was returning to the pool with an eye toward possibly participating at the 2016 Summer Olympics was greeted with a big yawn by fellow swimmers.
While Phelpsโs un-retirement did indeed create a flurry of excitement in social media, those who know him best were not shocked by Mondayโs announcement.
โI wasnโt surprised,โ 17-year-old Olympic champion Katie Ledecky told Reuters in a telephone call after a workout at her swim club in Bethesda, Maryland.
โThe swimming world has known for a while that heโs been training the past year so it wasnโt too big of a surprise. Iโm definitely excited that heโs going to swimming in Mesa.โ
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South African swimming star Chad le Clos speaks about his plans for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, visiting the city, and being in the media spotlight.
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The most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, Michael Phelps, is heading back into the pool.
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Despite being the son of a talented Australian cricketer, as a boy Ian Thorpe was useless at ball sports (an affliction with which Heroes of Swimming sympathises; in fact, we wonder if Ian is also a rubbish dancer). Thorpe’s older sister told him to come swimming with her instead, but he was allergic to chlorine and had to swim with his head out of the water. It didn’t stop him winning his first race.
By the time he was 13, Thorpe was already more than six feet tall. He was also now putting his face in the water, and going extremely quickly: at 14, he ducked under the four-minute barrier for 400m freestyle, and a few months later he shaved that time down to 3:53.44 at the Australian Swimming Championships. It got him into the team for the Pan Pacific Championships as the youngest Australian swimmer ever to represent his country.
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A longtime Charlotte swim coach has been banned for life from USA Swimming, seven months after he was charged with misdemeanor sexual misconduct involving a minor.
Jamie Thomas, 54, owner and head coach of New South Swimming in Charlotte since 1997, had been on leave from the club since July.
On Monday, the sportโs governing body announced Thomasโ permanent suspension for violation of the USA Swimming code of conduct. The suspension means he is prohibited from coaching or owning one of its club teams.
โThe safety of our athletes is our top priority,โ USA Swimming spokesperson Karen Linhart said. โItโs very important to have the right people in our sport, acting in the ways of our code of conduct and doing the right thing.โ
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Graham Hill, national coach of Swimming South Africa (SSA), said he left the national swimming trials for the Commonwealth Games a disappointed man after the conclusion in the Kings Park pool in Durban on Saturday.
“The final night was a big disappointment as I expected at least another two or three qualifying times tonight,” Hill said on Saturday.
“I thought Rene Warnes (400 individual medley) and Myles Brown (1500 freestyle) should at least have qualified as they came so close.
“I expected to have 12 swimmers overall to qualify for the Commonwealth Games, but now we only have nine.”
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Former Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima has urged Japan’s young swimmers to step up after a collective flop at the national championships left him wondering if he needs to postpone his retirement.
The “Frog King” won double breaststroke gold at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics but at 31, and expecting his first child with his pop star wife, he is getting ever closer to hanging up his goggles.
However, he may have to remain in competition for a while yet after nobody went inside Japan’s 100m and 200m breaststroke selection times for this year’s Pan Pacific Championships and Asian Games.
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USA Swimming has put an end to months of speculation with an announcement today that Michael Phelps is expected to race at the Arena Grand Prix in Arizona next week.
Phelps has been somewhat quietly making a comeback to competitive swimming since last fall, when the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced that the Olympic legendย had taken two out-of-competition random drug tests, something a retired athlete does not do. […]
The events Phelps is swimming in Mesa will not be known until the release of the psych sheets later this week. He’ll be in good company under the Arizona sun. USA Swimming also announced that longtime out-of-the-pool friend and in-the-pool rival Ryan Lochte is scheduled to swim in Mesa. Lochte has been working his way back to top form sinceinjuring his knee in Novemberย and the crowd would love to see the two best 200 IM swimmers in history battling side by side once again.
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