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Coach Adlington Puts Epsom Kids Through Their Paces
Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington puts Epsom schoolchildren through their paces in a special training session.
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Goodhew Dives into the Fight to Save Our Swimming Pools
Posted: 17 Feb 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Olympic swimming champion Duncan Goodhew has joined forces with the British swimming sponsor British Gas and the ASA to support the launch of Pool-watch.co.uk.
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Britain's Best Battle for World Qualification at the British Gas Swimming Championships
Posted: 05 Mar 2011 | Channels: Consumer, Sport
Britain's top swimmers take to the pool at the Manchester Aquatics Centre in a bid to secure a place in the British Gas GB Team for the World Championships in Shanghai.
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Lucky Kids Take the Plunge with Britain's Swim Stars at the British Gas Swimming Championships
Posted: 07 Mar 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer, Non Profit
Children from the British Gas Pools 4 Schools programme, will be swimming with the stars at the British Gas Swimming Championships in Manchester this week.
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Commonwealth Champion Launches British Gas Pools 4 Schools in Salford
Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Triple Commonwealth swimming gold medallist James Goddard takes the plunge with Salford children who are learning to swim for free with British Gas Pools 4 Schools.
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Coventry School Brings Back Free Swimming Lessons with British Gas Pools 4 Schools
Posted: 04 May 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Coventry children, whose school swimming pool was closed due to unaffordable repair costs, are being taught to swim for free in an innovative portable pool which has been built at Coundon Court School by British Gas Pools 4 Schools.
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Keri-Anne Payne Gets Inspired Ahead of the British Gas Great Swim Series
Posted: 12 May 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Olympic open water swimming silver medallist and world champion Keri-anne Payne launches the British Gas Great Swim Series, with a special training session at the Serpentine in London for some truly inspirational competitors.
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Britain's Swimmers Start their Countdown to the World Championships at Cyprus Training Camp
Posted: 18 May 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Britain’s best swimmers have begun their final countdown to the World Championships in July, at a 10-day warm weather training camp in Cyprus.
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Jodie Kidd gets ready for the UK's ultimate swim festival
Posted: 28 Jun 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer, Entertainment
Celebrity mum-to-be Jodie Kidd is encouraging people to enjoy swimming like never before this summer, at the British Gas Big Dip in London.
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Duncan Goodhew invites families to jump in to a summer of swimming
Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew is urging all families across the country to get swimming this summer.
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Britain's male swimmers stand proud ahead of the world championships
Posted: 29 Jun 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Britain's top male swimmers show what they're made of before representing the British Gas GBR Swimming Team at the world championships.
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Double Commonwealth Champion Cook Dives in to Ashington Pools 4 Schools
Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Double Commonwealth swimming gold medallist Chris Cook takes the plunge with British Gas Pools 4 Schools in Ashington, Northumberland.
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Britain's Swimmers Get Set for the World Championships in Shanghai
Posted: 18 Jul 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
The fastest ever British Gas GBR Swimming Team has gathered at a holding camp in Osaka, Japan to make final preparations for the World Championships in Shanghai.
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Double Olympic gold medallist and newly crowned world champion Rebecca Adlington teams up with her 'mini-me' at the British Gas Big Dip
Posted: 03 Aug 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Double Olympic swimming gold medallist and newly crowned world champion Rebecca Adlington meets 4-year-old swimming sensation Tae Smith at the British Gas Big Dip in London
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World Champions Adlington and Payne celebrate victorious homecoming at British Gas Big Dip
Posted: 03 Aug 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Golden girls Rebecca Adlington and Keri-anne Payne celebrate their new World Championship titles at the British Gas Big Dip
Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Channels: Sport, Consumer
Coach Adlington Puts Epsom Kids Through Their Paces
Lucky children from two Epsom schools had a very special swimming lesson, with double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington today.
Adlington put 20 children from Epsom and Ewell High School and Rosebery School, through their paces in a two hour training session at the Rosebery School pool.
British Gas is the principal partner of British Swimming and offered the training session with Adlington as a prize in a competition amongst its staff last year.
Christian Doran, who lives in Dorking, won the prize and donated it to the children of Epsom and Ewell High School. The formerly failing school, which was in Ofsted special measures just 18 months ago, has been completely transformed and is currently rated as ‘good with outstanding features’.
Epsom and Ewell High School doesn’t have a swimming pool of its own so cannot offer swimming lessons, but a number of pupils are keen club swimmers who train at the Rainbow Leisure Centre in Epsom.
The special swimming session took place at neighbouring Rosebery School, which offered the use of its pool. Therefore, children from both schools shared this experience.