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Tragedy struck the Studio City Harvard-Westlake campus on Friday when junior swimmer Justin Carr was involved in a “tragic swimming accident.” According to the Los Angeles Times, paramedics were called when Carr collapsed during a school workout. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Carr was 16 years old.
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A man is in hospital with multiple broken bones after jumping 15 metres from a cliff above the Waikanae River.
The 21-year-old, believed to be of Paraparaumu, missed the water and landed on the riverbank about 6pm on Saturday.
He broke bones in both legs, and suffered spinal injuries. He was reported to be in a stable condition in Wellington Hospital yesterday.
The accident happened at a spot known as Devil’s Elbow, about 4 kilometres east of Waikanae, towards Reikorangi.
Our older son Jákup readying himself for his first real swim competition, a 16 meter freestyle at the FLOT meet in Toftir, Faroe Islands on 23 February 2013. He did well, got a registered time and everything :-)
This colourful two minute clip allows a glimpse into the world of a lap swimmer.
William. Lap Swimmer. Bomaderry. from William Peisley on Vimeo.
This looks interesting
Full video will be released March 10th on LeendaDProductions Channel
Tania, Luke, and Paul Hill are swimming the English Channel while raising funds for the Cancer Council NSW. This is their Sydney Harbour Training Swim, see also hillfamilychannelswim.com
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Olympic 4x100m free relay gold medalist Melanie Schlanger has become the first member of the London 2012 squad to call for head coach Leigh Nugent to fall on his sword. In a week that delivered two damning reports that revealed the extent of bad behaviour, members of the men’s 4x100m free relay team at the heart of the crisis of culture attended a press conference to make a public confession. Now the focus is shifting to dry land. Schlanger tells Wayne Smith at The Australian, that she believed Nugent had changed his story several times when it came to when knew that some of the relay boys had taken Stilnox, a prescription sleeping pill often used by athletes trying to cope with jet lag but banned by the Australian Olympic Committee.
“I personally don’t trust him to be our head coach,” said Schlanger. “His story changes every day. How can he stand up in front of the team and tell us what we can and can’t do? The situation has become far too volatile for him to remain as head coach. If he was a football coach in any code, his job would have been taken away already. The fact that we are an Olympic sport shouldn’t make us any different.”
(Video from when they were happy in London)
