Month: April 2018
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Meet Sophie McAfee: The American diver looking for Youth Olympic Gold | Youth Olympic Games
Sophie McAfee competed at her first senior national at age 12, and since then has continued to pursue her dreams of representing the USA at the Olympics in diving! Hear from Sophie as she looks ahead to her first appearance at the Youth Olympic Games 2018 Buenos Aires.
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Diving Deep With 5 Incredible Swimmers
In this reel, we stay afloat with stories of five incredible swimmers. We make our way through the Mississippi River with a former Navy SEAL, meet a synchronized swimmer smashing stereotypes, and get our adrenaline pumping with a champion cliff diver.
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Team Scotland Arrive Home After Commonwealth Games
Scottish athletes return to Glasgow from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Among them was swimmer Duncan Scott who won a record six medals at one Games.
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Hungarian police arrest member of world swimming’s governing body over 1998 murder
When Hungarian media tycoon Janos Fenyo was gunned down in his car by a dozen submachine gun bullets in downtown Budapest two decades ago it shocked the country and police never found who ordered the murder. Now police have detained Tamas Gyarfas, an executive at world swimming’s governing body, on suspicion of ordering the murder,…
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Aimee Willmott applies her own science to beat Miley to Commonwealth gold
Few swimmers have a greater understanding of how to tease the best performance out of themselves than Aimee Willmott, who has written an academic paper on the subject. Willmott’s dissertation, published in the European Journal of Sport Science, considers the effect clothing worn between a warm-up and competition can have on performance. She concludes that…
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BBC presenter falls in swimming pool during live interview
The sports presenter Mike Bushell made a splash as he fell in a swimming pool during a live interview on BBC Breakfast. Bushell was preparing to chat to the England Commonwealth Games swimmers Sarah Vasey, Adam Peaty, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Ben Proud and James Guy, who were sitting on the edge of a small pool on Australia’s Gold Coast.…
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Ian Thorpe, Giaan Rooney ferried around Commonwealth Games ‘in stolen car’
Swimming stars Ian Thorpe and Giaan Rooney were forced to walk the remainder of their journey to the Commonwealth Games aquatic centre to report on the swimming after the car they were in was seized by police. The pair were riding in the hire car when Gold Coast police pulled it over because it had…
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Turns out the SECRET to better dives is…
Freediving training in Gili Trawangan has been an absolute success! Coming here to just train with Mike Board without a freediving competition was the best decision. It has given me the time to rework many aspects of my diving, to tweak things with zero pressure so that my dives are feeling smoother and more effortless…