Our Olympians are busy preparing for the Tokyo Games which is now only 89 days away. But, last year’s pandemic postponement led to many contemplating life outside of sport with some of Australia’s top stars admitting the transition can be tricky.
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Chernobyl: The Azure Swimming Pool / Cinematic FPV
To wash away radiation from buildings, to wash away a hard day… The Azure swimming pool is one of the few institutions that continued to function after the Chernobyl accident. Until 1998, when the third power unit was shut down, liquidators and employees of Pripyat enterprises came here to swim.
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‘Let Them Swim,’ Group Petitioning Rochester Leaders to Reopen Silver Lake Pool
There’s a growing effort in Rochester to reopen Silver Lake Pool this summer.
The pool sat vacant last year. Then in September, some on Rochester City Council and the Parks Board recommended permanently closing the pool. They cited budget concerns and said the pool was old and that fewer people used it.
“Every spring, when we start up Silver Lake pool, we keep our fingers crossed that all systems will fire back up and that they will work again in the summer,” Parks and Recreation Supervisor Ben Boldt said back in September.
A group of community members recently started a petition to reopen the pool, saying the pool still has a lot of value.
The group states on its “Let Them Swim” Facebook page that the pool serves a diverse population, including eight different community groups that reach underserved populations.
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The Full Review | British Swimming Olympic Trials 2021 | Propulsion Swimming
In this week’s episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we are doing our complete and comprehensive review of last week’s British Swimming Section Meet, which acted as the British Trials to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics!
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Conquering Fremont: My 9 Mile Swim Across the Deepest Lake in Wyoming
Fremont Lake is the deepest lake in Wyoming and stretches 9 miles at the base of the Wind River Range. I first swam across the lake in 2016 and I’ve swum across it every year since. This is my 5th year attempting the swim, so join along as I paddle across the frigid waters of my favorite glacier lake.
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Here’s The Frightening Moment A Swimming Pool Collapsed Into A Condominium’s Garage
Security footage captured a pool in Vitória, Brazil, collapsing this week, flooding a parking garage.
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Elmbrook Swimmers Prepare for Olympic Trials
It’s not a secret that training for the Olympics isn’t something you just start doing the year of the games. Prime examples, Maggie Wanezek and Lucy Thomas. The two Elmbrook Swim Club members will be participating in the Olympic Trials after qualifying almost two years ago.
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Body Found Off Crane Beach After Swimmer Reported Missing
A swimmer was reported missing off Crane Beach in Ipswich. A Coast Guard helicopter spotted the body near Grape Island, a part of Plum Island, in the sound about 2 miles away from where 28-year-old Eric Pecina went into the water.
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Italian Sets World Record With Lake Titicaca Swim
Andrea Oriana, an Italian former Olympic swimmer, has set a new record on the high-altitude and chilly Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable lake that is surrounded by Andean mountain ranges between Bolivia and Peru.
The 47-year-old swam across 20 kilometers (12.43 miles) of the lake without a wetsuit in a total of 5 hours and 33 minutes, breaking the previous record for distance swum on the lake at his third attempt, despite bracing waters and thin air at 3,812 meters (12,506 feet) above sea level.
“The difficulty is the altitude, it does not help you to swim well and it slows down your strokes due to the cold because you feel the 12 degrees Celsius (53.6° Fahrenheit) without protection, and it feels very, very cold,†Oriana said.
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