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  • Swimmer Jason Lezak Remembers 2008 Olympics 4×100 Relay Win | Press of Atlantic City

    Jan 6, 2025

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    in Competition, History

    Jason Lezak, a four-time Olympic gold medal swimmer who anchored the infamous 4×100 relay winner at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held a clinic in Atlantic City on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.

    See The Press of Atlantic City

  • Should Adults Be Re-Taught Swim Survival Lessons? | Sunrise

    Jan 6, 2025

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    in Safety

    An urgent warning has been issued to parents and families after a shocking number of rescues took place in waterways across the country.

  • Freediver Director on Why Documentary Is His Most Ambitious Work Yet

    Jan 5, 2025

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    in Freediving

    Director Michael John Warren spoke to Bleeding Cool about why it took all his previous experience to make the documentary Freediver work.

    Read Bleeding Cool

  • Backstroke Swimming Body Position | Tip 7 | Aggressively Rotating Your Shoulders | U.S. Masters Swimming

    Jan 5, 2025

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    in Masters, Technique

    Staying rotated throughout your backstroke pull to overcome the limitations of your shoulder range of motion and maximize your pull is important. Although doing so solves one problem, it can also create a new one.

    If you delay your rotation until you finish your pull and you need to be rotated to the other side of your body to start your pull with your other arm, your rotation is going to have to be really fast.

  • Teen Shark Attack Survivor: ‘I Wake Up Every Day Feeling Grateful’ | Today

    Jan 4, 2025

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    in Nature

    A Colorado teenager who survived a brutal shark attack while on a family vacation is speaking out for the first time, recounting the terrifying ordeal and her road to recovery. NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY.

  • How Exercise May Be the ‘Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known’ | PBS NewsHour

    Jan 4, 2025

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    in Science, Training

    It’s been well known for many decades that exercise provides many benefits to our health. But a new scientific consortium is revealing new insights into just how profound exercise can be for the human body. William Brangham discussed more with Euan Ashley, a professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics at Stanford University and the newly named chair of its department of medicine.

  • Gretchen Walsh Has Broken Short Course Swimming | The Swim Scribe

    Jan 4, 2025

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    in Competition

    Gretchen Walsh may have recently had one of the all time greatest swim meets EVER, so lets break it down to put just how INSANE it was into perspective

    At the 2024 Short Course World Championships Walsh was a world record breaking MACHINE, over the course of the meet she set a STUNNING ELEVEN world records, 9 of which were done individually.

  • Swimmers Warned After ‘Hazardous’ Chemicals Found at Popular Sydney Beach | 9 News Australia

    Jan 4, 2025

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    in Beach Life, Environment

    Swimmers are being urged to avoid a popular beach near Sydney Airport, amid concerns potentially hazardous chemicals are seeping into the water.

  • Boy Drowns in River as Melbourne Temperatures Soar | 9 News Australia

    Jan 3, 2025

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    in Safety

    Emergency services were called to help this morning after the child was spotted in the river. It comes on the eve of a dangerously hot weekend for Victoria, with temperatures set to soar to 40 degrees in parts.

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