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Drowning doesn't look like drowning
The 'instinctive drowning response' involves very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.
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Speedo USA Drops Sponsorship of Ryan Lochte
Decision comes in the wake of Lochte's scandal while in Rio.
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Michael Phelps Tied A 2,168-Year-Old Olympic Record
Another two golds last night for Michael Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever: That makes 21 gold medals in his career, 25 medals overall, and with his win in the 200m butterfly—a particularly personal win, given his loss in that event four years ago—Phelps now has 12 individual wins to bring him into a tie with the late, great Leonidas of Rhodes.
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Here’s the process behind the cupping therapy that’s giving Michael Phelps red circles on his back
This is why Michael Phelps has those red circles on his back.
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Michael Phelps Powers U.S. to Victory and Wins His 19th Gold Medal
Phelps won his 23rd Olympic medal over all for the United States, extending his record.
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Shocked French mayor wants to ban 'burqini' pool party
We've all seen it and thought about it. What do we feel about it. I would ask you to remember this is Snapzu.
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A Survey of the Most Ridiculous Anti-Drowning Devices of the 1800s
Victorian life preservers invited both drowning and mockery.
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Everything You Know About Surviving Rip Currents Is Wrong
About 100 people in the U.S. drown after being sucked out to sea in rips each year, and new research has experts arguing over how best to escape them.
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Michael Phelps makes history as first U.S. men's swimmer to qualify for five Olympics
Michael Phelps held five fingers high after his hand hit the wall, a sure sign he realized he’d done something much larger than win another race. With his victory in the 200-meter butterfly on Wednesday evening, Phelps became the first American male swimmer to qualify for five Olympics. But the moment felt heavier than that even. He thought he never wanted to swim again in 2012 and in the four years since, he had plunged into an emotional abyss, been arrested, learned volumes about himself in therapy, found love and become a dad.
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USA Swimming bans former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault
Former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner has been banned from USA Swimming for life after he was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus in January 2015. Turner is no longer eligible for USA Swimming membership and will not be allowed to compete in any USA Swimming-sanctioned events, including the Olympic Trials, after violating the organization's Code of Conduct policy.
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Bear and Cubs Found in New Jersey Family's Swimming Pool
Party animals!
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Swim with Fish participants raise $12K for Gig Harbor Peninsula Fish Food Bank
Eighteen swimmers participated in the ninth annual Swim with Fish fundraiser Saturday, raising $12,627 for the Gig Harbor Peninsula Fish Food Bank. Participants swam the Colvos Passage, a one-mile swim, beginning on Vashon Island.
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Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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Levante Beach in Benidorm in Eastern Spain
The recent terrorist incident in Tunisia has shifted many tourists away from African beaches to European ones.
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How to Prevent Drowning
Though it's not always well-publicized, drowning is one of the leading causes of death from unintentional injury, causing about 10 deaths per day in the US alone.http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/waterinjuries-fac...
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Swimming is life
Public swimming pools are filthy places, but the similarities they’ve got with life don’t stop there. In the middle of all the snot and hair and plasters one can still learn valuable lessons — if one looks really into it.
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Michael Phelps Suspended From USA Swimming For 6 Months
USA Swimming announced that it would suspend Michael Phelps from its organization's events for six months following his second DUI arrest on Sept. 30.
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Michael Phelps -- Arrested FOR DUI ... Again
Michael Phelps was arrested for driving under the influence in Baltimore, Maryland early this morning ... TMZ Sports has learned. Our sources tell us ... the USA Olympic legend was pulled over around 1:40 AM in his white Land Rover. We're told he bombed his field sobriety test ... and his B.A.C. was almost twice the legal limit.
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Pictures of babies underwater
Rachael Ubiera, a 25-year-old in Kissimmee, Fla., considers herself “one of the relaxed moms.” But the first time she saw her 5-month-old daughter, Zoe, left, carefully dropped underwater in a pool for infant survival swim training, it was nerve-racking. “She looked surprised,” Ubiera says. “Like, ‘What are you doing to me?’ ” Zoe was being introduced to “self-rescue,” in which babies are taught to hold their breath underwater, kick their feet, turn over to float on their backs and rest until he
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22-time Olympic medalist Phelps unretires
Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement, lured back into the pool by the fun of it and the possibility of swimming at a fifth Olympics in Rio in 2016. The 22-time Olympic medalist will compete for the first time since the 2012 London Games at a meet in Mesa, Ariz., on April 24-26.
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