Find out how Ellie Cole is getting on in lockdown. The 6 time Paralympic gold medal champion gives you a glimpse into lockdown life and how to stay positive and focused.
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Olympic-bound Sacramento swimmer looks forward to training for Tokyo
Over the last two years, 18-year-old Luca Urlando has soared up the ranks of the best swimmers in the world.
“And has put himself in a place to be the next great American flyer,†Urlando’s swim coach Billy Doughty told FOX40. “He’s our best hope in 2021 of winning a medal in the 200 butterfly.â€
As Urlando heads off to the University of Georgia in August, Doughty said the 18-year-old is not just the top high school swimming prospect in the country. He would have been the first high schooler on the Olympic team since Michael Phelps 16 years ago were it not for the Tokyo Olympics being postponed until 2021.
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Brophy Prep swimmer finishes marathon swim
Getting into 59-degree water is enough for most people, but Henry Palmer took it way further. The Brophy Prep senior swam more than 14 miles in it.
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Two-time world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin dies in spearfishing accident
Two-time world champion snowboarder Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin has died while spearfishing in his native Australia.
Pullin, 32, was the Australian flag bearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and competed in three Olympics in total. He was known as an experienced diver and had previously posted about his passion for spearfishing on social media.
“Paramedics were called to a post-immersion incident off Nineteenth Avenue at Palm Beach just after 10.30am,” said the Queensland Ambulance Service in a statement Wednesday. “One patient was treated at the scene.”
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Michelle Roglaski swims 10-miles around Muskegon Lake to build watershed awareness
Michelle Roglaski swims 10-miles around Muskegon Lake to bring awareness to restoration efforts on the watershed. Rogalski’s swim showcases that if she is able to swim 10-miles in Muskegon Lake than anyone can swim 10-minutes, proving the water is no longer contaminated.
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Actress Naya Rivera Presumed Drowned After Swimming In Lake Piru With 4-Year-Old Son
The search for 33-year-old actress Naya Rivera was suspended late Wednesday night after she went missing earlier in the day.
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Shamed Olympian Ryan Lochte dishes on his new documentary
The new documentary, “In Deep with Ryan Lochte,†chronicles the Olympic swimmer’s rise, fall into scandal and efforts to make a comeback.
“A lot of people have a different perception of me, and this documentary is going to basically show you the real me — the downs I’ve had in my life, the ups and how everything has shaped me into who I am today,†Lochte, 35, tells The Post.
Premiering July 15 on Peacock, NBC’s new streaming platform, “In Deep†covers the now-infamous incident at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil when the bleached-blonde Lochte — a 12-time Olympic medalist — falsely claimed to have been robbed at gunpoint.
He was subsequently dropped by his sponsors and was suspended by USA Swimming for 10 months from competing in domestic and international competitions. In 2018, he was slapped with a 14-month suspension by the United States Anti-Doping Agency for allegedly receiving a “prohibited intravenous infusion†(which he denied).
“I want people to see all that hard work and dedication that I put into my sport to get to where I’m at,†says Lochte. “A lot of people think because I’m such a jokester in life that I just got by by talent. That isn’t the case at all. I busted my butt every day and worked hard to get where I’m at. So you’re going to see a little bit of everything.
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Shane Ryan – Water is Our World | #MyAquaticStory
#Waterisourworld encapsulates everything we stand for. Ireland’s Shane Ryan, Bronze medallist in the 50m backstroke at the 2018 World Short Course Swimming Championships, narrates about his longing to get back in the water.
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From wiggling his toe to moving his arms, one Woodhaven swimmer’s long road to beating paralysis
Cooper’s home away from home has always been the pool. As a member of the Woodhaven High School swim team, the student practically grew up in the water. But the challenges the soon-to-be junior high school student faces won’t just be setting personal records at swim meets, but learning how to walk again.
It was during a dive not into a school swimming pool, but into his family’s backyard pool when the accident happened.
“When he dove he hit his chest and his neck,” said Savannah, gestured to where he landed. “Right there Cooper came up, realized ‘I can’t swim, I couldn’t move my body,’ he started flaring his arms.”
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