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  • Ice Bathing: Latvia’s Signature Winter Sport | Focus on Europe | DW News

    Feb 10, 2024

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    rokur
    in Ice Swimming, Winter Swimming

    Ice baths are a popular health trend and beneficial for the body and mind. For many Latvians, ice baths have been a weekly ritual for years. The activity is popular with all generations.

  • Day 7 | Highlights | World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024

    Feb 9, 2024

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    rokur
    in Artistic Swimming, Diving, Open Water

    Day 7 at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha delivered thrilling moments! Team Australia clinched a narrow victory in the open water 4x1500m mixed relays, while Team China shone in Artistic Swimming & Diving. The Wang sisters secured their fourth gold in Women’s Duet Free, and Junjie Lian & Hao Yang claimed gold in the men’s 10m Synchronised event. Tom Daley added another silver for Team Great Britain.

  • World’s Deepest Swimming Pool: Behind the Scenes of Deep Dive Dubai | The Dubaians

    Feb 9, 2024

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    rokur
    in Freediving

    Dubai is home to the world’s deepest swimming pool for diving. A monstrous 60-meter-deep temperature-controlled swimming pool for leisure and commercial divers to enjoy a unique underwater experience like no other.

    The tube-shaped pool is partitioned into several open chambers at different depth levels with unique features.

    Deep Dive Dubai is not just a swimming pool. As The Dubaians will show you, this is a hub of excellence for learning, a conference center, and a therapy destination. The center is home to the largest decompression room in the world which is not used just for emergencies but also for therapy. A lot of world-class athletes have visited Deep Dive Dubai to experience the therapeutic benefits of the decompression room.

    If you live or are visiting Dubai, Deep Dive Dubai should be on your bucket list if you are an underwater enthusiast. There is no place like this anywhere else in the world.

  • Swimming Gold & New Wr | Mixed 4x100M Medley Relay Team’s Road to Gold | Team GB

    Feb 9, 2024

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    rokur
    in Competition

    A look back at Tokyo 2020 and the 4x100m mixed relay swimming team making a splash in this debut event at the Olympics.

    https://youtu.be/VHRWogazFiw?si=NSuv6trJrayCxuGG
  • Central’s Swim Team Looks to Capitalize on District Success at Regionals | KLST-TV

    Feb 9, 2024

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Central’s swim team looks to capitalize on district success at regionals

  • Australian Swimmer James Magnussen Says He’ll ‘Juice to the Gills’ to Win $1.5m Prize in Enhanced Games | The Guardian

    Feb 9, 2024

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    rokur
    in Competition, Doping

    Organisers of an Olympic-style event for drug-taking athletes say they will pay retired Australian swimmer James Magnussen $1.5m if he can break the 50 metres freestyle record.

    Magnussen is the first athlete in the world to publicly flag interest in competing at the Enhanced Games, founded by Australian entrepreneur Aron D’Souza.

    “I have kept myself in reasonable shape in retirement,” Magnussen told a sports podcast.

    “They [Enhanced Games] have said they have a billion-dollar person backing them.

    “If they put up $1m for the 50 freestyle world record, I will come on board as their first athlete.

    Read The Guardian
  • Swimming Pool MiKomp – A Request From Swimmers for Help!

    Feb 8, 2024

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    rokur
    in Swimming Pools

    We, the Ukrainian swimmers and the administration of the “Mikomp” swimming pool, are asking you for help. In this difficult time for our country, the “Mikomp” swimming pool remains one of the few working Olympic-class pools in central Ukraine, and Ukrainian swimmers continue to train there for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games. With almost no funding, the pool is in a very vulnerable situation, and its closure could be fatal for the future of Ukrainian sports. The swimming pool needs new investments in infrastructure modernization to continue its operation.

  • Mastering Butterfly Technique With Olympic Swimmer Marius Kusch | Inside With Brett Hawke

    Feb 8, 2024

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    rokur
    in Competition, Technique

    ⁠Marius Kusch⁠, an Olympic butterfly swimmer for Germany, shares techniques for mastering butterfly through quality training focused on speed and proper form.

  • Ontario University Under Fire For Introducing Swim Program Exclusively For Black People | African Diaspora News Channel

    Feb 8, 2024

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    rokur
    in Organization

    Emma Ansah reports on an Ontario University that’s under fire for implementing a swim program for black people only

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