Category: Adapted Swimming
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Swim Clubs become more inclusive
Local swimming clubs are making a splash this summer by expanding the traditional definition of team. Madeline Westberg has the story. https://youtu.be/rGGk2rl05Fo
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Ian Thorpe visits the Invictus Games 2018 training squad
Olympic swimming legend Ian Thorpe visited the Invictus Games 2018 training squad at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Albert Park. Thorpie provided the squad training tips and techniques, and spoke of his experience on the world sporting stage. This was the final selection camp before the Australian team is announced mid-year.
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Swimmer dives into success
A young Special Olympian is overcoming obstacles and making waves in the pool.
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Start Your Impossible: Brad Snyder
War veteran and five-time Paralympic gold medalist swimmer Brad Snyder tells how he was able to overcome what seemed impossible after being injured in Afghanistan in this inspiring and encouraging Toyota Start Your Impossible story. https://youtu.be/KbUo1Ypl_vg
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My Focus: Elizabeth Marks
Two-time Paralympic medalist Elizabeth Marks learned to swim three times: for the first time in 2012, after her injuries in 2014 and after her amputation in 2017. In this episode of My Focus presented by milk life, Marks discusses how the pool has enabled her — and others — to heal mentally, physically and emotionally.
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How I Became A Blind Gold Medalist Swimmer
“I didn’t dream to become blind and I didn’t dream to become a Paralympian.”
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A Transplant Games Athlete Tells Us About Her 60 Plus Gold Medals
It’s been raining gold for Nicole MacKenzie who’s won over 60 gold medals competing in both, the European and the World Transplant Games for team GB.
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Friends ‘just keep swimming’ despite blindness and bone cancer
As 14-year-old Grace Bunke faced numerous rounds of chemotherapy to combat bone cancer, her friend McClain Hermes gave her a wall plaque with “Just keep swimming†etched into the wood.