Tag: Mark Foster
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Race Mark Foster in a 1.25km Open Water Swim!
Guest post by Natalia Wawrowska / Sports Direct Is Mark Foster one of your idols? On the 24th of August in Eton, West London you could race Mark Foster in a 1.25km open water swim. The aim of the race is to raise money for Level Water, a charity which provides free one to one…
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Mark Foster learned to swim because his dad couldn’t
Former six times world champion swimmer Mark Foster has told Daybreak he learnt to swim because his father was “petrified of water”.
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Mark Foster talks swimming with SportsvibeTV
Mark Foster talks to SportsvibeTV about everyday exercise and swimming, the Olympic legacy, the state of British swimming and the ‘SwimBritain’ initiative headed up by British Gas. Six-time World Champion Mark Foster is calling on people to get out of their seats and into the pool, after a new survey found that 23% of people…
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Charity Promo – JOIN IN
Join In is a charity born out of the efforts of the volunteers at the London Olympics. Featuring Mark Foster Charity Promo 1 – JOIN IN – TOOTING BEC LIDO from Badmoods on Vimeo.
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Mark Foster: The day I broke the world record
Mark Foster was a world, European and Commonwealth champion and world short-course freestyle record holder and swam for Great Britain at five Olympic Games before retiring after Beijing at the age of 38.
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CC photo #115: Pál Joensen and Mark Foster in Budapest
Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen and British legend Mark Foster having a chat in the Budapest 2010 European Championships mixed zone. Foster really should have been on this side of the fence, but Hungarian security was admiringly tight.
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Interview with Mark Foster at the 2011 UAE International Swim Meet
An interview with British swimming legend Mark Foster at the 2011 UAE International Swim Meet, talking about the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Sports Complex and the ‘lie’ that he was planning a comeback.
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Old Olympic events revived as Foster, Goodhew take ‘the Plunge’ for Sport Relief
A century ago, Olympic events included underwater swimming, an obstacle course and an event called “the plunge” – so why did they disappear? Olympic medal swimmers Mark Foster and Duncan Goodhew put on their Victorian bathers to find out, ahead of the Big Splash for Sports Relief later this month. (See video on BBC)
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Mark Foster rules out a sixth Olympics
According to Reuters, 41-year-old Mark Foster has now ruled out the rumors of him competing at his home Olympic Games next year, as he doesn’t envisage winning a medal. “I know I could make the team and be in the top two in the country but would I do anything? No, I’d probably make the…