Jason Lezak got kicked off the UCSB swim team in the middle of his Junior year. A decade later he split 46.0 on the back of Team USA’s 4×100 Free Relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to reel in France’s Alain Bernard.
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Wayzata Loses to Minnetonka in Girls Swimming
The Wayzata girls swimming and diving team lost a dual meet for the first time this season, falling 110-76 to last year’s state Class AA runner-up Minnetonka. The Skippers won eight of the twelve varsity events. Defending state butterfly champion Claire Reinke of Wayzata won the 100 Fly in 55.84 seconds with Jenna Marquette winning the 100 breaststroke and the Trojans’ Sarah Cao placing first in diving. Minnetonka won two out of the three relay events.
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Jenny Garrison, North Central Triathlon and Swimming Coach, Discusses Female Role Models
North Central Coach Jenny Garrison joins the show to discuss women in sports, specifically role models for the next generation
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Tom Daley vs. Chen Aisen | Budapest 2017 | FINA World Championships
Great Britain’s Tom Daley and China’s Chen Aisen put on a show in the 10m Platform Final at the 2017 edition of the FINA World Championships in Budapest scoring many perfect 10s across six rounds of dives. A cliffhanger battle for the Gold medal which deserves to be watched until the very end!
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Coronavirus: 2021 Island Games in Guernsey are postponed because of pandemic
The 2021 Island Games have been called off because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The multi-sport event for small islands across the world was due to be held in Guernsey between 3 and 9 July, with 3,500 competitors and officials, and 1,000 volunteers set to be involved.
No decision has been made on when the games will take place and what could happen to the planned Island Games in Orkney in 2023.
The last Island Games were held in Gibraltar in the summer of 2019.
“We have waited for even the slightest possible opportunity to go on with the Games in 2021, but we have to acknowledge the facts,” said International Island Games Association chair Jorgen Pettersson.
“The pandemic is not over, the quarantine regulations will continue to make planning forward very, very difficult and even impossible.
“Therefore, it would not be fair to ask the member islands or the host island to commit financially to an event next summer.
“This has been a difficult decision to accept for all of us. I am truly sorry for this decision, but I also know the determination in our island communities, and I am convinced we will come back in friendly competition under the umbrella of NatWest International Island Games as soon as possible.”
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Doing My First Ultra Swim // 8km Ocean Swim // Alwyn Uys Vlogs
With all official events canceled I decided to pursue the dream of doing the Robben Island crossing. This is an 8km ocean swim in the freezing waters of Cape Town, South Africa which is known for its sharks surrounding the Cape Town bay area.
This has never been done by a paraplegic and this will be a worlds’ first.
Come along for the journey and watch me prepare for the ultra-distance swim in the next 12 weeks and experience it all with me.
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U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte discusses why the Spire Institute & Academy is the perfect place to train athletes for success
The institute is new and improved, with five former Olympians working as ambassadors for the institute.
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Chinese elite swimmer goes from the pool to policing
Jiang Haiqi starred alongside the controversial Sun Yang in winning a historic relay swimming bronze medal for China at the London 2012 Olympics.
But now he is doing national duty of a very different kind — as a policeman saving lives on Shanghai’s Huangpu River.
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Epic Irish Swim | Ocean Swimming With GCN’s Conor Dunne
A Global Cycling Network presenter doing a swimming video!? Yep, that’s right! Ex-professional cyclist Conor Dunne has many Grand Tours under his belt, but this time he’s taking on a new challenge by swimming 5km in the Irish Sea to Helvick Harbour! â Here’s how he got on!