http://youtu.be/4ruXjmSlejI
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Asthma Society of Ireland on Swimming
“Traditionally we used to recommend swimming as a good sport for people with asthma because the environment in a swimming pool is warm and humid, and those conditions are good when you are breathing hard. They generally don’t tend to cause the type of breathing problems that we see with the field sports.”
“We want to restore our patients to normal exercise capacity. We’re not particularly pushed on what sport they do, once they are able to do what they need to do and their asthma doesn’t interfere with that. So it can be field sports, it can be swimming, it can be any sport they want. We don’t have a favorite sport”
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Rafa Muñoz, world record holder still with the club that taught him to swim
An Andalusian story featuring Cordoba’s Rafael Muñoz Perez
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Nude Swimmer Distracted Man While Her Husband Burglarized Him
The story from the other day, explained by these two nice ladies. Thanks for explaining our nature to us, ahem :-)
Here is a guy explaining it
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Man saves family by swimming five hours
Read University Chronicle
A man from Maryland swam for five hours to find help for his family. The family was boating off the Eastern Shore of Maryland when their boat capsized during a strong storm
John Franklin Riggs scaled rocks on the shoreline after dark and then knocked at the first house he found after swimming for over three miles Wednesday.
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Reedsport community supported free swimming lessons program doing well
See KCBY.com
Knox Story, the district manager, says a series of drownings prompted the community to take action. “In 1953, there were three drownings in Reedsport in three separate incidents,” said Story.
A short time later, a Reedsport resident privately funded the facility, which now provides free lessons for Kindergarten through sixth grade kids in Reedsport.
The program has been going on since 1955. “There’s never been a drowning from any of the children that went through this program from a lack of swimming skill,” said Story.
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CC photo #558: Rijeka 2008 Men’s 100 butterfly medal podium
Gold winner Serbia’s Milorad ÄŒavić in 49.19, silver to Spain’s Rafael Muñoz Pérez in 49.74, bronze to Russia’s Nikolay Skvortsov in 49.98. See the result list here.
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George the monkey now regular guest at Mumbai pool
For the past week or so, a monkey nicknamed “George” has visited the Kalidas municipal swimming pool in Mumbai, India, showing up at around 7am to swim for about an hour or so. It created a bit of a stir at first, kids jumping out of the pool and stuff, but it doesn’t bother the other swimmers, so members are starting to grow fond of it. It will have to go though, see Mumbai Mirror via Nothing to do with Arbroath
“We have informed the forest department, and they will take care of the monkey,” said the pool supervisor, Milind Bhingarde, told Mirror.
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Universiade XXVII Swimming Finals 2013.07.11