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Pilot Program Helps Overcome Swimming Fears | WCNC
There isn’t much swimming happening in this weather, but it could be the perfect time to learn at your local YMCA.
The American Red Cross says about 80% of adults claim to know how to be able to swim but more than half also admit they’d fail a basic swimming test.
A pilot program at the YMCA of Greater Charlotte is helping people with traumatic swimming experiences overcome their fears.
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World Record | Katie Ledecky Sets New World Record by Nearly 10 Seconds | FINA
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Australian Olympic Swim Coach Ian Pope | Inside With Brett Hawke
Ian Pope is the Head Coach of the Melbourne Swimming Club. He is one of the most successful swimming coaches in the World having coached swimmers to over 70 medals at the Olympics, World Champs, and Commonwealth Games.
Including Matt Welsh, Michael Klim, Giaan Rooney, Grant Hackett, Marieke Guerher, Matthew Targett, Patrick Murphy, Koti Ngawati, Rachel Goh, Sam Marshall, Hadyn Stoeckel, and Italian swimmer Massimiliano Rosolino.
And, Brett Hawke!
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British Swimmer Crosses Red Sea to Highlight Coral Reef Plight, Climate Change | Arirang News
And finally… in a world first, a person has swum across the Red Sea.
British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh completed the 123-kilometer swim on Wednesday. He did it to raise awareness of the dangers that the Red Sea’s coral reefs face,… as a result of worsening climate change.
The UN Patron of the Oceans took sixteen days to swim from Tiran Island in Saudi Arabia to the Egyptian city of Hurghada.
While in Egypt, Pugh will attend the Cop27 climate summit, which takes place from November 6th for 12 days in Sharm El Sheikh.
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Tenoch Huerta on Playing Namor in Black Panther, Not Knowing How to Swim & His Tiny “Shame Shorts” | Jimmy Kimmel Live
Tenoch talks about being cast in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, not knowing how to swim before he shot the movie, his friend giving him pages of research about his character, and his tiny costume.
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Cannonball Contest Makes Swim-Pressive Debut | The Post Athens
The swim and dive teams opened up their swimming lanes to see which OU student has the most impressive splash. Roughly 15-20 contestants took the plunge off of the 3-meter diving boards in hopes of taking home the grand prize by simply having the best cannonball.
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Swimming Inside a Melted Iceberg | Dave Malkoff
Lewis William Gordon Pugh, OIG, is a British-South African endurance swimmer and ocean advocate. Dubbed the “Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming”, he is the first person to complete a long-distance swim in every ocean of the world, and he frequently swims in vulnerable ecosystems to draw attention to their plight. Dave Malkoff catches up with him in Scotland during #cop26
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Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were on a Swim Team | Athlete Center
Welcome back to Athlete Center, today on the channel we are going to feature Six Celebrities you Didn’t Know were Swimmers. “Celebrity” isn’t typically the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of a swimmer. While the aquatic realm’s best might not all be ultra-famous, they are the celebrities of our niche community of weirdos. Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte can stop the show just by walking into a swim meet. Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky are recognizable to just about any age group swimmer from 100 yards away. All of these people are well known for their success in the sport, but they are also recognized on a daily basis by countless non-swimmers. What about the opposite? Who are the prominent people who have experienced great success in life and have a background in swimming?