This week on the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we speak with recently retired Commonwealth Gold Medallist, Alys Thomas.
A member of the British Swimming squad at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Alys Thomas talks about her long-term battle with a wrist injury while competing as an elite swimmer, and how it has forced her to retire from swimming with the Arthritis of a 60-year-old.
We also talk through her advice for others looking to PB and reach their peak in their late 20s, as well as how Swim Wales has helped her transition out of the sport over the last few months!
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GoPro: Freediving Beneath Ice | Underwater With HERO11 Black
GoPro family members Andrew + Lilly Ryzebol are master freedivers of the frozen variety. With few places to come up for air + freezing temperatures, ice diving requires an incredible level of mental + physical training. They have built a career around this incredible combination of abilities + took HERO11 Black along for a day of diving to show us what it’s all about. Try to hold your breath from the comfort of your couch while Andrew + Lilly freedive in a frozen lake.
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I Entered the Most Extreme Swim Event | The Unlazy Way
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Former Cleveland Browns Rb Peyton Hillis Discharged From Hospital Following Swimming Accident | WKYC Channel 3
Former Cleveland Browns star Peyton Hillis has been discharged from the hospital following a swimming accident earlier this month.
On Saturday, the former NFL running back’s girlfriend, Angela Cole, shared a positive update on Instagram, announcing that Hillis has been discharged from the hospital.
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Traveling ‘Water Circus’ Comes to Tyler With Aquatic Acrobatics | KLTV
A giant circus tent is up in the parking lot of Broadway Square Mall in Tyler. Cirque Italia will hold their first opening performance tonight at 7:30.
Fifty-five performers from around the world make up the show’s cast.
Roxana Midi, a performer from Romania, says she loves the opportunity to travel around America performing.
“By working in the circus, brings a lot of emotions from the people, so I like to take their emotions, their energy, and kind of like a recycling process, take them from them and give them back,” says Midi.
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A Deadly Crash Ends With a Tesla in a Swimming Pool | KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco
A woman is dead after veering her Tesla into a swimming pool in San Rafael Saturday morning.
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Into the Cold – Elina Mäkinen I Arte.TV Documentary
Human beings evolved in the warm climate of Africa before striking out to live in colder parts of the world. It is a testament to our ingenuity as a species that we can now survive in hostile climates. But what if the cold was actually good for us? This documentary explores the science of cold with elite Finnish cold swimmer Elina Mäkinen as she attempts the Polar Ice Mile in arctic Svalbard.
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California Teen Makes History as the Youngest to Swim Across the Kaiwi Channel | Hawaii News Now
15-year-old Maya Merhige made it to shore just after 9 p.m. on Thursday, with a time of 27 hours and 33 minutes.
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Will Choppy Waters Stop Sue Radford’s Lake Windermere Great Swim? | 22 Kids & Counting | Channel 5
The Radford’s head to Cumbria’s famous Lake Windermere for Sue’s Great Swim! With choppy waters and weather conditions worsening, it’s touch and go, can mum of 22, Sue, do it?!