Year: 2013
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Speedo Advisors | How swimming can help to ease lower back pain by Matt Taylor
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Ryan Cochrane tells Craigflower students about ‘physical literacy’
Read Times Colonist Students at Craigflower Elementary School heard about “physical literacy†on Monday from an expert source — two-time Olympic swimmer Ryan Cochrane. “It’s about playing with friends, it’s about finding what you like,†said the 25-year-old Victoria resident. “Maybe it’s not swimming. Maybe it’s running. Maybe it’s trying a new thing you never…
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Some Competitors Say Freediving Needs A Safety Sea Change
Read and listen to NPR Free-divers, who take a breath, swim as deep into the ocean as possible and then come back up, come to Dahab from across the world to compete. But a diver’s death in November has raised questions about the safety of the sport, with some divers saying too little has been…
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Swimmer catches 18-pound lobster under Huntington Beach pier
See Orange County Register “I’ve been doing this for about seven or eight years, but always out at Dana Point or Long Beach – never around the pier,†said the 27-year-old, whose father, Mike Ali, owns Zack’s. With his LED flashlight guiding him, Ali scrounged around the pier pilings, diving to about 16 feet deep…
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Bears go for a swim in North Naples pool
See NBC2 A North Naples homeowner watched from behind her sliding glass door as a family of bears leisurely took a dip in her swimming pool last weekend. “Two bears in my balcony! They’re trying to get in my house. I’m so scared!” North Naples resident TJ Ozbay told a Collier County 911 dispatcher. “Oh…
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Germantown Academy coach Dick Shoulberg to return as coach emeritus
Read for instance philly.com Longtime swimming coach Dick Shoulberg, who has been on administrative leave from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington since October, will return as coach emeritus for the remainder of the school year, according to a letter Monday night from the head of school, Jim Connor. Shoulberg, who cofounded the Germantown Academy Aquatic…
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Sun Yang seeks redemption
Read via ShanghaiDaily Sun Yang received a gift for his 22nd birthday from Swimming World Magazine on December 1 – he was elected as the Male World Swimmer of Year 2013. Instead of celebrating, he apologized – for an eventful year that saw him breaking up with his coach, missing training and caught driving without…
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Children evacuated from swimming pool after prosthetic leg mistaken for paedophile
Read The Independent An entire class of children was evacuated from a swimming pool after a prosthetic leg was mistaken for a paedophile. Teachers from Kings Hill Primary School in Kent spotted the leg poking out from a cubicle whilst taking their class of year 4 children swimming at Larkfield Leisure Centre. They believed it…
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Couch interview coming up
As we had plenty of spare time around the Herning 2013 event itself (not), I went to Silkeborg and interviewed two very interesting persons for an hour or so. Sound and videos look okay, but I need to cut a bit, before posting.