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Category: Swimming

Multicultural swimming program breaking down barriers for women

By Siren   Posted in Community Sport Swimming
Posted on July 19, 2022July 18, 2022

Aish Ravi looks at a program from Life Saving Victoria designed to encourage and support women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to learn to swim. On Tuesday evenings, after school lessons when it’s relatively quiet, Zara and her friends gather at the local pool in south-east Melbourne to receive swim lessons and swim in …

Taking the Paralympics by Storm

By Siren   Posted in Paralympics Swimming Women in Sport Media
Posted on August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

Sienna Nobile, one of Siren’s emerging sportswriters, catches up with Traralgon swimmer Ruby Storm who’s preparing for the Tokyo Paralympics

Beth French is swimming against the tides

By Georgia Dunne   Posted in Interview Swimming
Posted on February 26, 2021February 27, 2021

Swimmer Beth French’s ambitious goal of completing oceans seven was documented in the film Against the Tides. Georgia Dunne spoke to French about the experience. Against the Tides is a documentary film about channel swimmer Beth French and her ambitious goal to complete oceans seven, a series of the most dangerous channel swims around the …

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