Year: 2019
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GW Swim & Dive 2020
I had the opportunity to shoot a video for the GW Swim & Dive team this year. Have been planning something like this for a long time. Take a minute to see what it’s like to be a part of this program. #RaiseHigh
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Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh announces Antarctic lake swim
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is to swim a kilometre across a lake on the Antarctic ice sheet to raise awareness of the climate crisis at the poles. The latest challenge by the UN patron of the oceans will see him swim in a stretch of water no human has swum in before as he tries…
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Why Your Brain Needs Exercise
People often consider walking and running to be activities that the body is able to perform on autopilot. But research carried out over the past decade by us and others would indicate that this folk wisdom is wrong. Instead exercise seems to be as much a cognitive activity as a physical one. In fact, this…
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Tech workers attempt a world record swim in Mountain View
From Dec. 10 to Dec. 21, it doesn’t matter what time of day you tune in to this livestream there will be a swimmer at this pool in Mountain View. The tech workers turned world-record hunters are trying to get their Guinness badge of honor. “There’s an existing record set in 1979, so it’s kind of…
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‘A licence to discriminate’: Ian Thorpe blasts Religious Discrimination Bill
Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe is one of several public figures who have appeared in a video that strongly criticises the Coalition’s Religious Discrimination Bill. LGBTQI+ advocacy group Equality Australia released the video across social media last Friday and it has so far received more than 300,000 views. Read SBS News
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Budapest | Highlights Show | ISL
The fourth match of the ISL season took place in Budapest, Hungary.
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Teen swim sensation aims to reach quarters at Tokyo
Seventeen-year-old swimmer Wang Kuan-hung has had a stellar 2019. He”s made history by becoming the first Taiwanese to win a medal at the U.S. Open. He”s also qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, where his goal is to reach the quarterfinals or beyond. Still in high school, he”s already been hailed as Taiwan”s next Butterfly King.
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‘My friends call me bullet’ – Nigerian boy dreams of swimming at Olympics
Aidan Dumuje-Abili is an 8-year-old swimmer and the fastest in his category in Lagos. His dream is to emulate the success of the legendary swimmer, Michael Phelps and put Nigeria on the map for swimming. Angela Ukomadu reports. https://youtu.be/8xHvkA_6mg0