Breeja Larson, Olympic champion shares her story how she grew up in a high poverty, low income area with 6 siblings, how she took up professional swimming at 17 years and became Olympic champion only 3 years later, and how she found new passions after not qualifying for the Rio Olympic Games.
In 2012, four synchronized swimmers collectively known as Aquabatique braved the cold to impress the BGT Judges with their unique in-sync moves in an outdoor water tank!
Chris DeJong, President of Big Blue Swim School joins WGN News at 6 to discuss swimming safety tips with the summer ahead.
A state of emergency has been extended in several regions of Japan as Covid-19 cases surge, less than three months before the Tokyo Olympics.
Restrictions in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto had been due to end on 11 May, but will now remain in place until the end of the month.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga also said they had added Aichi and Fukuoka to the regions under a state of emergency.
According to Swim England more than five million swimming sessions were lost during the pandemic and for Sally and her daughters it was one of the things they have missed most over the past year.
Among the sea life: a sevengill shark and black sea bass.
A 6-year-old girl from Kailua, Hawaii, had a frightening encounter with a shark over the weekend, according to a report.
Dramatic video shows Anela Rezentes playing in the waves at Hawaii’s Kalama Beach on Sunday when she turns and sees the shark moving in the shallow waters just inches behind her. In a panic, the young girl turns around and runs toward the beach.
“My soul left my body,” Anela said, according to Honolulu’s KHON-TV. “I saw a shark. I didn’t notice he was behind my back. So I really wanted to run out. I was really scared.”
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It was a long goodbye recorded on camera for a New Hampshire woman and a hawk she had saved from her swimming pool.
“Hi there, little guy,” Cortnie Langley is heard saying to the hawk. “I know, I’m going to try and help you get out. Just don’t kill me, OK? We’re gonna do this together.”
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Formerly known as synchronized swimming, artistic swimming has been an Olympic sport since 1984 in the Summer Olympic Games of Los Angeles. From the USA to Canada and Russia, all three nations successfully led the sport throughout the Olympics. Russia took over from the 2000 Olympics, the Russians have won every Gold medal ever since. Anastasia Davydova, Svetlana Romashina, and Natalia Ishchenko hold 5 Gold medals each. As Davydova and Ishchenko retired from the competition, could Romashina win a record of 6 times Gold in Tokyo 2020?
