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Jahari Dunn doesn’t seem to be doing anything that miraculous when she swims with the Queen City Dolphins.
But the 17-year-old Cato Middle College High School student knows that what she does with her team is remarkable.
“I saw the water and i jumped in and i didn’t know how to swim. My mom jumped in and saved me. And she didn’t know how to swim either,” said Dunn.
http://youtu.be/BWdhrK__Vwg
Read for instance Bournemouth Echo
A swimming coach who taught three generations of Dorset children is devastated after a ‘black cloud’ has been left hanging over her 50-year career.
Janet Hewitt, 69, was found guilty of assault by beating last week after Weymouth Magistrates’ Court heard that she grabbed a child by the arm after a swimming gala.
But the grandmother, of Garfield Avenue, Dorchester, said she has been ‘overwhelmed’ by support from pupils and parents past and present.
She said: “This might have ruined my life. For 51 years this sport has been my life, and now, to be accused of something like this has just devastated me.”
Mrs Hewitt said she also fears what the ruling will mean for other coaches and people who volunteer with youngsters.
“Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad says she considers herself a spiritual person and an atheist. Watch her eye-opening round of Soul to Soul.”
Germany’s Paul Biedermann and Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen after the 5th heat of the men’s 400 meter freestyle prelims at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. They both qualified for the final, where Paul became World Champion and Pál was 5th. See the result list here.
At age 64, she had just become the first person to swim 110 miles from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. So what did Diana Nyad do the morning after making history?
Russian swimmers Yulia Efimova and Vladimir Morozov please the home crowd as Olympic champion Chad le Clos also wins big at the Moscow leg of the short-course Swimming World Cup.
http://youtu.be/zwc3dLKWRBA
“Aquaman used to be the joke of the superhero community… ”
Russia’s Danila Izotov on the medal podium after winning bronze in the men’s 200 meter freestyle at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. See the result list here.
At the Tyrmót Ægis in Reykjavík today, the team from Aalborg in Denmark managed to break two Danish records in one race, clocking 1:50.61 in the women’s 4×50 medley, with Mie Ø. Nielsen leading out with a time of 26.96 and new Danish record in the first 50 backstroke. That is less than a second slower than the 1:49.87 world record that Indiana University had until yesterday, only now not mixed but girls only. The now former Danish women’s record in the 4×50 medley was Kvik Kastrup 1:51.29 in 2009, and the Danish women’s 50 back record Mie Ø. Nielsen’s 26.98 from the Danish team championships in March 2012. The meet results can be found here but the results from the last session are still missing.
And Coach Leifi’s photo is awesome! :-)
