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2008 Paralympics Video Coverage
US Paralympics is pleased to announce that Universal Sports is providing multiplatform broadcast coverage of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. The groundbreaking U.S. broadcast will premiere September 6 on UniversalSports.com...
Michael Phelps Set Records in Beijing… So What's Next? He’s Going to Disney World
Direct from the Beijing Games where he won a record eight Gold Medals, world champion swimmer Michael Phelps celebrated his unprecedented achievement with an all-American homecoming parade in his honor...
GIRLS SWIMMING: Portage enjoys pool party (Portage Daily Register)
Kate Wolf touched the wall, gave her opponents quick hugs and triumphantly raised her right hand with four fingers extended.
Swimming: Shanteau recovering from cancer, surgery and plans pool return (Santa Fe New Mexican)
Photo: Swimmer Eric Shanteau, who successfully had a cancerous testicle removed last week, will return to his training base in Austin, Texas, next week and hopes to get back in the water sometime around Sept. 15.
Swimming: Getting Better with Age?
Dara Torres, the 41-year-old Olympic swimmer with the impossibly chiseled abs who collected three silver medals in Beijing, has proved at the elite level that getting older doesn’t mean getting...
Arrested While Lap Swimming
A reader has shared his story of an unusual occurrence. He was arrested while lap swimming - for lap swimming (sort of...)....
City's Swimming Teams Have Little Pool Space (NY1 News)
Swimming usually cools you off. But after Michael Phelps and Team USA struck gold in the Beijing Olympics, the sport couldn't be hotter these days.
Man Taking Underwater Swimming Pool Pictures Arrested (WISN 12 Milwaukee)
Police say a Greenfield man was arrested accused of using an underwater camera to take pictures of girls swimming in a Waukesha public pool.
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.
2008 Beijing Paralympics Swimming
The Paralympic Games is an international competition among each nation’s elite athletes with physical disabilities and is second in size only to the Olympic Games. The Paralympic Games follow the...
Sheila Taormina - Can You Name Another 3-Sport Olympian?
Sheila Taormina, who at age 39 became the first woman to compete in three different sports at the Olympics, wrapped up an amazing career by placing 19th of 36 entrants...
Kipling Swimming Pool Promotes Water Safety (The Citizen)
Staff Photo By: Darcie Thom Logan Khounnoraj and Kaylee Joorisity, Duck Class, learn to swim under the instruction of Erin Toppings Staff Photo By: DarcieThom Kaylee Joorisity jumps into the pool during her lessons By: Darcie Thom The Kipling Swimming Pool has been offering some in-depth water safety and swimming lessons to children and adults alike. There have been a [...]
You Must Conquer The Doubts - Mind Training Tips for Swimmers - Sports Psychology Tips for Swimmers
To be truly successful in swimming, it's not always the case of trying to achieve a goal, but being able to break through your own resistance to it. What is...
Correction: Rescue at swimming pool (The Kansas City Star)
A story in some Aug. 30 editions of Neighborhood News gave the wrong date for a rescue at a swimming pool in Parkville. The rescue occurred on Aug. 23.
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