Category: Health
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How a Giant Plus-Shaped Pool Could Make New York’s East River Safe For Swimmers
See FC As the heat of summer approaches, you might be seeking a refreshing dip in a local pool, pond, lake, or river, but jumping in to New York’s East River is probably not at the top of your list. However, designers Jeffrey Franklin, Archie Coates, and architect Dong-Ping Wong are working on a project called +Pool, a giant plus-shaped…
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Ryan Lochte re-tore MCL in practice earlier this month
Read Reach For The Wall Despite Ryan Lochte‘s total flop in his TV debut with “What Would Ryan Lochte do?†last year, the 29-year-old swimmer may be a better actor than previously believed. Lochte scratched from the Charlotte Grand Prix last week, and he told reporters at the meet that it was precautionary after feeling knee soreness…
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Swimming pools: how do you know they’re safe?
See WNCT With warmer weather arriving, many people across the East will be heading to pools. But how do you know they’re safe to swim in. Keith Jernigan is with the Craven County Health Department. He says this time of the year is extremely busy as seasonal pools ask to be inspected so they can…
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Sandra Völker auctions off Olympic medals to pay off her €100,000 debts
Read The Local Sandra Völker raised €28,000 for her silver medal for the 100 metres freestyle from the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. The swimming champion’s two bronze medals from Atlanta were sold for €12,000 and €16,000 each, her swimsuit for €150 and a swimming lesson for €460. The 40-year-old said: “It’s a great outcome…
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Note to Olympic Sailors: Don’t Fall in Rio’s Water
See NY Times Nico Delle Karth, an Austrian sailor preparing for the 2016 Summer Olympics, said it was the foulest place he had ever trained. Garbage bobbed on the surface, everything from car tires to floating mattresses. The water reeked so badly of sewage that he was afraid to put his feet in it to…
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Kieren Perkins reveals panic attack that almost cost him Olympic swimming glory at Atlanta 1996
Read 7NEWSÂ and ABC Swimming great Kieren Perkins has revealed a panic attack nearly led him to abandon an Olympic gold-medal-winning race that became one of the most enduring moments in Australian sporting history.
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Swimming Pool Chemicals Send Thousands to ERs, CDC Says
Read NBC News Each year thousands of Americans are injured by the chemicals designed to keep swimming pools safe, a new government report finds. In 2012, 4,876 people landed in the emergency room after being injured by pool chemicals, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate.
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Kieren Perkins to reveal post-swimming struggles on Australian Story
Read news.com.au Gold medal hero Kieren Perkins is taking the plunge into second-time marriage later this year, but first is diving into his own post-swimming struggles on Australian Story. Perkins, 40, has been an exemplar among the few Australian swimmers in recent history to manage the difficult transition from national sporting idol to relative anonymity.…
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There’s more to chlorine than just swimming pools
Listen to Marketplace It keeps your pools clean and safe, it’s half of the compound that makes up table salt, and — in its purest form – it can kill you. And those are only three of the things chlorine can do. “There are something like 15,000 chlorine-based chemicals that are used in industry,” says the BBC’s Justin…