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  • Isthier Chaudhury Puts His YouTube Swimming Lessons to the Test | The Moth

    Jun 14, 2025

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    in Fun, Learn To Swim

    When Isthier’s wife wants to go scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef on their honeymoon, there’s only one problem… Isthier can’t swim. With only a month before the trip, Isthier must learn how to swim and overcome his fear of trying something new.

  • Summer McIntosh on What’s Next After Record-Breaking Week at Canadian Swim Trials | CBC Sports

    Jun 14, 2025

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    rokur
    in Competition

    CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux sat down with Summer McIntosh after she set three world records and five national records at the Canadian swim trials in Victoria, B.C.

  • The Secret to Getting Faster Has Nothing to Do With Swimming | Eetu Karvonen

    Jun 14, 2025

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    rokur
    in Competition, Training

    What if I told you the real gains happen outside the pool?

  • Let’s Talk About The Enhanced Games | Kyle Sockwell

    Jun 14, 2025

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    rokur
    in Competition

    After receiving countless DMs about the Enhanced Games, I finally decided to talk about it. All in all, I find it pretty uninteresting. A former swimmer got jacked and then some other former swimmer threw on a bodysuit in an empty pool and went kind of fast. What now? It’s redundant, it send the wrong message to young swimmers, and the marketing copy used surrounding these “World Records” is weak.

  • Swimming With Sharks: Lewis Pugh’s Mission to Save Our Ocean | UN Environment Programme

    Jun 13, 2025

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    rokur
    in Nature

    For decades, sharks have been portrayed as killing machines.

    However, it’s humans who kill an estimated 274,000 sharks every single day.

    50 years after the movie Jaws hit the big screen, UN Environment Programme Patron of the Oceans @lewis.pugh is swimming 96km around Martha’s Vineyard to rewrite the narrative and challenge long-held fears about sharks.

    To Save Our Ocean, we must protect its apex predator.

  • Kaylee McKeown’s Ultimate Heartbreak & Triumph | 60 Minutes Archives

    Jun 13, 2025

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    rokur
    in Competition
  • Swim Instructor Discusses the Importance of Infant Swimming Resource Ahead of Summer | CBS 8 San Diego

    Jun 13, 2025

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    rokur
    in Safety

    Certified Master ISR Instructor Brad Hurvitz spoke with CBS 8 about the difference between Infant Swimming Resource and traditional swim lessons.

  • Penny Oleksiak on Learning to Love Swimming Again | CBC Sports

    Jun 13, 2025

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Canada’s most decorated Olympian, Penny Oleksiak, has been on Team Canada going on ten years now, and she has had a love-hate relationship with the sport that made her a super star. She tells our Devin Heroux more about the new career chapter she’s finding joy in.

  • The Toughest Swim in the World: What It Takes | Global Triathlon Network

    Jun 12, 2025

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    rokur
    in History, Open Water

    The English Channel – 21 miles of cold water, strong currents, and swirling tides. It’s one of the toughest endurance challenges out there. But how hard is it really?

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