An early start to a varsity career is normally a testament to talent. But instead, for Niagara Wheatfield junior Paul Wissel, it started to foster some self-doubt.
“I was getting down on myself. I never thought I was going to be anywhere I am today,” Wissel said. “And it was my mom that kept motivating me to keep swimming and be better. She saw the talent I had.”
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Authorities believe a carbon monoxide leak may be to blame.
An elderly man who drowned after falling into a swimming pool was one of three people who died while shoveling snow on Long Island, New York, during Saturday’s powerful blizzard.
Officials said police pulled the unconscious man out of a pool in Cutchogue around 8:30 a.m. and began CPR. He was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced dead.
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One of the biggest breakout swimmers of 2021 was DAVID POPOVICI, but just how fast can he potentially go, and what is going to be his strongest event?
Sky News host Rita Panahi says in the gender-fluid age of identity politics where feelings matter more than chromosomes, women are being asked to accept athletes with an unfair advantage.
“They’re being asked to accept competitors like Lia Thomas – a transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer who was born male and competed as a male swimmer but now identifies as female and competes on the women’s team,” Ms. Panahi said.
“Sadly, most of Thomas’ competitors are too scared to publicly criticize this clown world lunacy.
“There’s a reason we have a men’s and women’s category in sport. Men and women are different and pretending otherwise only disadvantages women.”
Herbie Behm is an Assistant Coach at Arizona State University, his alma mater. He coaches the sprinters.
