Month: May 2015
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Emma McKeon changes coaches to join Michael Bohl’s squad
The 20-year-old freestyle and butterfly star made the bold decision after last month’s selection trials to leave coach Vince Raleigh at Chandler and move across Brisbane to join Michael Bohl’s squad at St Peters Western that is fast becoming Australia’s top young talent team. It meant that McKeon would no longer train alongside her older…
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Ruff ride: Dog drives Dodge into swimming pool
A North Carolina couple’s black lab is in the doghouse after crashing a pickup truck into a swimming pool. The pooch didn’t have her paws on the steering wheel but she was pawing the pedal to the metal. Their pet named Caroline rarely left home without the couple, Mike and Ruth Smith. But when they…
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‘4-Hour Workweek’ author Tim Ferriss explains how learning to swim in his 30s changed his life
Tim Ferriss, best known as the author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,†has built a career around dissecting the techniques of the world’s elite performers and packaging them in a way anyone can use. He’s worked with experts to learn Brazlian Jiu-Jitsu, how to race a rally car, and how to become conversational in a language…
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Accountant almost killed by fish-thieving sea lion
One moment the US fishing enthusiast was posing triumphantly with his prized catch — the next, a hungry sea lion was dragging him underwater to what he feared would be his certain death. Dan Carlin had reeled in a number of yellowtails from his nine-metre boat in waters off San Diego, California, when his wife…