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Attend a swim team practice at Norwin High School, and it could be any school in any town – until one swimmer exits the pool, and you notice the white cane.
“Some people may be surprised that I swim,” says senior swimmer Hunter McGowan, “but I swim anyhow.”
The surprise comes from the fact that Hunter is both legally blind and legally deaf.
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014.
Monday Memory
Tuesday Tips
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Remember when Tom Daley won his Olympic bronze and American swimmer Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time? All these memories and more took place under the curved roof of the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park. Eighteen months after the Paralympics the building opens to the public. Jason Rosam went to have a look at the transformation of the centre for BBC London 94.9.
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A nurse and mother of two from Park Beach has completed a gruelling ocean swim to raise money for the community group that cares for the coastline she calls home.
Andrea Chelkowski, 35, took four hours to swim from Dodges Ferry to Lauderdale yesterday. […]
“I grew up at Lauderdale and have spent so much time in the water surfing, fishing and sailing with my Dad. I always thought of swimming across the bay, so it was great to do it as a fundraiser,” Mrs Chelkowski said
There are these awesome kids on YouTube having their say about the swim
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“I got back in the water faster that what was expected,” said Lochte, who swam in two events at Orlando. “The doctors still say that I should be more careful, and I said, ‘Ahh, I don’t want to listen to them, I want to get back in the water.’ It started feeling fine. Then when I raced in Orlando, I don’t know, something happened, something was wrong in my knee and it hurt, so I knew I pushed it too hard.
Although the special properties of water have been valued and appreciated for centuries, as scientists we continue to be perplexed by the molecular make-up of water in all its forms. Equally perplexing is the surface of water, a surface that is involved in some of most important reactions in our atmosphere, a surface that can sculpt the landscape as it flows past rocks and soils, a surface that can break down the strongest of metals, and a surface across which essential nutrients and ions are constantly exchanged in life-sustaining processes in our bodies.
Some adventurous pups take their very first swim.
Jessica Ashwood Breaks the Australian record in the Women’s 800m Freestyle with a time of 8:19.76.
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Karen Gaffney has quite the list of accomplishments on her resume. And she’s about to add another.
Gaffney has Down syndrome and started a non-profit to help better include people with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities in the community and workplace.
She is a great swimmer and has made the swim across Lake Tahoe. She will be participating in the Polar Bear Plunge into Lake Calhoun on Saturday morning.
She is also the first person with Down syndrome to receive an honorary doctorate.
