Year: 2020
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The Swim Against Loneliness
We are proud to launch the ‘Swim Against Loneliness’: an event which will take place in two phases. The first will involve all the children currently taking swimming lessons at Queens Park Sports Club (some 2,000 in total) who will be going for their certificates during the week of Saturday 6th June. The second will…
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Canadian swimmer alleges he was groomed by sex-abusing Ohio State doctor Richard Strauss
It was a gift with some awful strings attached. Toward the end of his sophomore year at Ohio State University, then-star swimmer Derek de Jong discovered that he was a lock for one of just a dozen spots in the school’s prestigious exercise science program — and that the team physician, Richard Strauss, had made…
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Olivia Peoples honored as All-Star Athlete
Olivia Peoples is on the swimming team at Nease High School. Olivia is a three time Florida state swimming individual champion, in the National Honor Society and the Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society. She is a role model to younger swimmers in both her school and the Bolles Club team. Olivia recently committed to…
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Pizza Pi – Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.
Pizza Pi is the whimsical invention of Sasha Bouis, an MIT-educated mechanical engineer turned boat captain, and Tara Bouis, a teacher turned award-winning yacht chef. The American couple spent two years restoring an abandoned boat, adding a double-brick-lined pizza oven, hood ventilation, and solar panels. Throughout the day, boats pull up to the floating pizzeria,…
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‘From sleeping to swimming, it was about 10 minutes,’ says survivor of fishing boat sinking
A survivor of fatal Alaska crab boat tragedy said the crew went from “sleeping to swimming in about 10 minutes†as rough seas and icing threatened to sink their boat. “On the 31st we just started listing really hard on the starboard side,†Dean Gribble Jr. said in a YouTube video he said he posted…
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2019 NSW Senior State Age Championships Highlights
Highlights from the 2019 NSW Senior State Age Championships at Sydney Olympic Park, 13-18 December 2019.
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A New Level for Swimming
This is the finale of a 4 city tour our companies Dodd Technologies and Reel Video Screens played a big part in. It was a lot of long days but the result looked amazing. We had 8 semis of gear there and it took 2 weeks to setup everything including the pools.
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Michael Phelps Explains How Much Water You’re WASTING | Exclusive Interview
US Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has collaborated with Colgate to ensure that everyone is learning how to save water. He shows us that we waste up to 4 gallons of water each time we brush with the faucet on.