Tag: Rebecca Adlington
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Brenda’s First-Ever Swimming Lesson With Olympic Gold-Medalist Rebecca Adlington | Loose Women
Earlier this year, Brenda revealed that she couldn’t swim and would love to learn. And on the show a few weeks ago, Olympic gold-medalist Rebecca Adlington surprised Brenda with a message to say she’d teach her how to swim. Today, we see Rebecca’s promise in action as Brenda and her daughter Tanisha for moral support,…
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Don’t Put a Cap on Swimming | Swim England
Swimming is generating social value of £2.4billion a year, according to newly released research. The social value is revealed in Swim England’s latest Value of Swimming report which outlines how water-based activity continues to make a significant contribution to the physical and mental wellbeing of the nation. To coincide with the launch of the report,…
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How Rebecca Adlington Transformed From an Olympic Swimmer to a Business Leader | The Summit
This week Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Adlington joins David Newns on The Summit to share how she has transformed herself from an athlete to a business owner. Rebecca teamed up with fellow Olympic swimmers Steve Parry and Adrian Turner and founded Swim! Together they teach children how to swim using state-of-the-art family-friendly swimming centers. Rebecca…
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Olympic Champ Rebecca Adlington Introduces Baby Albie & Opens Up About Body Confidence | Loose Women
She’s a four-time Olympic Medallist – two of them gold – who’s broken world records for her country. But over the last year former team GB freestyle swimmer Rebecca Adlington has swapped breaststroke for babies and the swimming pool for school books as she’s had a second baby, Albie, and been homeschooling her 6-year-old daughter…
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Rebecca Adlington’s 🇬🇧 first Olympic Race | Olympics
Watch the Olympic Debut of Rebecca Adlington in her Heat 6 Race at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. Later on, she won the 🥇 over 400m and 800m freestyle. 4 years later she won two 🥉 over the same two distances in London 2012.
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Katie Ledecky 🇺🇸 Five-Time Olympic Gold Medallist | Olympics
American competitive swimmer Katie Ledecky is a five-time Olympic champion. She won gold in the 800m freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and in the 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 800m freestyle, and 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. A silver medal in the 4 × 100m freestyle relay at Rio…
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Her Swimming Strategy Should Be Impossible | Skills N’ Talents
Ledecky has the best time in the world by 20 seconds! Here we tell you how she got to be so good. And we also tell you about her possible rival. In Tokyo 2021 will the first time that the 1,500 meter freestyle will be swam in the female events. This means that Ledecky will…
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Rebecca Adlington | Olympians Uncovered | Team GB
Becky Adlington shocked the world – and herself – with 400m gold as a 19-year-old at Beijing 2008. She followed it up by breaking the 800m world record to make it double gold.
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Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington on how to avoid over-pressurizing yourself
Rebecca Adlington OBE, Legal & General’s Not a Red Card Ambassador and former Olympic swimmer, outlines the importance of focusing on the process and the journey, rather than worrying about the end outcome.