An 84-year-old Florida woman in a wheelchair was up to her neck in flooding caused by Hurricane Ian. Her belongings were floating around her. Her son, 49-year-old Johnny Lauder, swam half a mile through a flooded Naples neighborhood to reach her. Johnny and his son Xavier found the family matriarch inside her water-logged house, alive but terrified. They had to push Karen Lauder in her wheelchair through the water to get her to a hospital.
Hong Kong-based swimmer and Splash volunteer Li Ling Yung-Hryniewiecki became the first Singaporean woman to swim 34km (21 miles) across the English Channel in September 2022, completing the swim in just under 13 hours. In the process, she raised funds for the expansion into Singapore of Hong Kong charity Splash, which gives free swimming lessons to domestic helpers. She spoke with Post reporter Alkira Reinfrank about achieving her dream of completing the swim.
Strictly waltzed back onto our screens this weekend, and today we’ll be joined in the studio by Ellie Simmonds and her partner Nikita Kuzmin for their first sofa chat, ahead of this weekend’s first elimination.
Breast cancer survivors and sisters from Utah will launch a swimwear line for women who have had surgery.
April said she had to leave her Kissimmee home with her 72-year-old mother through a window as it flooded.
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Milla Drakopoulos appears to have a bright future in the swimming pool.
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Some brave swimmers attempted to swim in Fort Myers, FL as the dangerous storm surge from Hurricane Ian was hitting the area.
At only three days old, Ethan Naisbitt was at risk of losing both legs and his right arm due to blood clots. His right leg and arm were saved, but not his left leg, which was amputated when he was three days old.
Ethan’s lungs were not fully developed, and he was on a ventilator for three months. He told three-time Paralympic champion Hannah Russell: “My parents were told most ventilated for longer than a month will not survive. But I went against all odds and survived.”
With a 10 percent chance of survival, continuous leg surgeries, and heart surgery in 2017, Ethan discovered swimming at seven years old and has not looked back since.
