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Copa Nadal 2020: Winter/Christmas Swimming Competition – Club Natació Barcelona
Copa Nadal or Christmas Cup, is a traditional swimming competition organized by Club Natació Barcelona. It’s held during the winter season, on Christmas Day! The swimmers shall swim through 200 meters of open water in Port Vell Barcelona. This is one of the oldest sports events in Barcelona and Europe, being created in 1907.
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Swimmers enjoy Christmas Day dips across the UK
Members of the public braved freezing temperatures for a festive dip in Dorset, Birmingham and Co Down.
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Happy Holidays
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Chinese Swimmer Sun Yang’s Doping Ban Is Lifted After Accusation of Racism
Sun Yang, a three-time Olympic champion and one of China’s most celebrated athletes, had his eight-year ban from swimming suddenly overturned Wednesday by Switzerland’s federal court, which upheld a challenge questioning the neutrality of one of the panelists who had issued the penalty.
The Swiss federal court’s decision came after lawyers for Sun presented evidence that the chairman of the three-member panel that issued Sun’s ban in February had made racist comments about China on social media.
The ruling was a rare encroachment on the body that issued the suspension — the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is based in Lausanne, Switzerland — and it means that Sun, whose competitive career was effectively ended by the doping ban, is free to resume swimming at least until his case is heard by a different panel at the sports court.
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Stig Severinsen Sets Guinness World Record By Swimming 202m Underwater
Danish freediver Stig Severinsen has smashed the existing Guinness World Record in longitudinal swimming underwater with a 202-meter (663-foot) swim in the Sea of Cortez off Mexico.
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Why now is the best time to teach your kids to swim
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2️⃣2️⃣ – Katie Ledecky finishes 22 seconds ahead of her final competitor! | #31DaysOfOlympics
Setting a World record is already impressive, but winning by this margin is just mind-blowing 🤯
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David Alleva, PhD Talks about the Lifelong Benefits of Swimming on WOWSA Live
David Alleva, Ph.D. swam competitively as a child and teenager. He then went on to represent Indiana University at the NCAA level, majoring in biology. He culminated his swimming career on the professional marathon swimming circuit while obtaining his Ph.D. in immunology, have 12 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and winning races from the United States to Italy. Ultimately, he was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in its Class of 1992. Dr. Alleva then went on to become a scientific leader in drug discovery and the development of immunotherapeutics and vaccines in several biopharmaceutical companies. He has published over 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He developed one of the first antigen-specific immunotherapeutic clinical candidates for Type 1 diabetes and is currently the Executive Director of immunotherapeutics at Akston Biosciences. In this WOWSA Live interview with Steven Munatones, Dr. Alleva summed up the lifelong benefits of interval training by competitive swimmers and collegiate swimmers in a uniquely profound way.