Category: Health
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Alicia Coutts: ‘It sucks the life out of everybody around you; it is pure evil’
I was six months old when my dad was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Being so young and seeing my dad go through his fight with cancer was hard to really understand. He passed away on the day of my first ever swimming carnival. I was just seven years old. My mum said I wasn’t going…
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The March Charge Ambassadors – Alicia Coutts
Alicia knows the cost of the War on Cancer. She wants to obliterate it. Will you help? 1/3 of cancers can be prevented by a healthy lifestyle. This March, push yourself 1/3 FURTHER/FASTER/HARDER and let’s obliterate cancer once and for all. See Alicia’s story now at: http://www.themarchcharge.com.au/ https://youtu.be/erllyCC2oAo
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Dangerous Places You Wouldn’t Want to Swim
Take a look at 5 of the most dangerous places to swim in the world, courtesy of Simply Swim Often we talk about the best places to swim, whether that be in open water, or our favourite water parks. But today we’re going to be counting down the top five places NOT to swim! Photo by sidibousaid60
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European Masters Games 2015 Nice – Disabled swimmer feature
This is a small promotional video to undestand better the athlete’s perspectives about masters sport. It was made during the European Masters Games 2015 in Nice, France.
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Ian Thorpe joins athletes calling for an end to homophobia in sport
Six champions united at the Mardi Gras Film Festival to share their stories of coming out and changes they want to see in their sporting codes. Audience members listened Sunday evening to Ian Thorpe, Matthew Mitcham, Sally Shipard, Daniel Kowalski, Shelly Gorman-Sandie and Casey Conway at a special screening of Out To Win: a film…
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Ian Thorpe to host new ABC exposé on bullying
Aussie Olympic swimming great Ian Thorpe will open up about his own experience of being bullied as a teenager in a three-part documentary which aims to tackle all sides of the issue of bullying in schools. “More than a quarter of school children in Australia claim to have been bullied on a regular basis, which…
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TCU Swimmer Evan Schmitzberger Overcoming Adversity
After a near death experience and diagnosis with a form of heart disease (ARVC), TCU swimmer Evan Schmitzberger has a new role with the team and a new look on life.
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Iceland creates PSA to help visitors avoid ‘hot tub awkwardness’
Iceland is doing everything it can to convince tourists to visit. Icelandair offered free Icelandic “stopover buddies” to give travelers a local experience, and now the official tourism board has created an entire curriculum to teach foreigners how to fit in. The first lesson: How not to be awkward at the public spa. Gudmundur, the…
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An Important Swimming Secret for Weight Loss
This is a point that was recently printed in Australia’s ABC online news by writer Cathy Johnson who says that some believe that you are better off walking around a pool than swimming in it if you hope to lose weight. Part of the problem is that if you are overweight, then you are more…