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2008 Team USA Paralympic Swimming Results - 10 Sep AM Prelim Session
The preliminary session's results at the 2008 Paralympic Games for the swimmers of Team USA on Wednesday 10 September. Lantz Lamback set a world record in the 100 backstroke.(Photo of...
Central Swimming: Devils hope to pool talents for top-10 state finish (The Doings Oak Brook)
Despite graduating four-year state qualifiers Hannah Quast, Siobhan Lawler and Katie Heenan, Hinsdale Central's girls swim team hopes to get back into the top 10 at state for the eighth time in the last 11 years behind seven state returnees and a promising freshman group. "The returning senior and junior group is strong so hopefully they'll move out of that non-scoring position," said coach Bob ...
Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres Shows You Some Swimming Stretches
How does an Olympic swimmer stretch? In this video from the New York Times, Olympic swimmer, Dara Torres, demonstrates her Resistance-Stretching Routine. Dara won her first Olympic medal in 1984...
Swimming: Big splash in pool at games (The New Zealand Herald)
A 12-year-old Aucklander has claimed 10 titles at the national Aims Games for year 7 and 8 students. Michael Mincham, who is coached at the Waterhole Club in Glen Eden, won the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, 50m and 100m butterfly, 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and the 100m medley.
When Tony Blair met swimming pool pervert (icWales)
A PERVERT who once received a “good citizen” award from Tony Blair has been jailed for 10 months for flashing at Cardiff’s International Swimming Pool.
2008 Team USA Paralympic Swimming Results - 10 Sep PM Finals Session
The results for Team USA's swimmers on Wednesday night, September 10 2008, at Beijing's Watercube. On day four of competition, 22 year-old Lantz Lamback and 18 year-old Roy Perkins both...
High school swimming: Shark Relays get everyone back in the pool (Naples Daily News)
Fourteen schools swam in the 11th annual Shark Relays, started the same year as host Gulf Coast opened by Harry Lawson, who still guides the Sharks. Fort Myers swept the boys and girls meets, beating out the Gulf Coast boys and the Community School girls for the team titles.
Woman, 80, is rescued at YMCA swimming pool (Boston Globe)
At one moment yesterday morning, an 80-year-old Russian woman was standing in the Olympic-sized pool at the Oak Square YMCA in Brighton, holding onto the deck and kicking her legs. Moments later, she was unconscious and not breathing, face down in 6 feet of water, a YMCA official said.
Aerial search seeks 'green' swimming pools (Palo Alto Weekly)
Mosquito-abatement officials are taking to the skies today to check primarily for neglected, green swimming pools in Santa Clara County. Earlier surveys counted more than 600 such pools, which can produce millions of mosquitoes, according to officials.
2008 Team USA Paralympic Swimming Results - 11 Sep PM Finals Session - Long Sets World Record and Popovich's Lifetime Gold Medal Count to 14
The results for Team USA from day 5 finals at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Tonight's swims from Team USA included 6 medal winners, one games record, and one world...
MHS pools not for swimming (Martinsville Bulletin)
Martinsville High School students need not show up for school in swimsuits. The 32 plastic wading pools atop the school are not intended to turn MHS into party central or even to be a place for students to cool off on any hot days remaining before the end of summer.
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