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  • - You know, it's so funny, I get this question all the time.

  • Do you still remember how it felt to drown?

  • It was a crippling feeling, I was suffocating underwater.

  • Now I've made it my job to conquer my fear

  • and to help to get these kids swim lessons

  • and to learn how to respect the water.

  • (calming music)

  • My name is Cullen Jones, I was in the Olympics in 2008

  • and 2012 and I love to give swim lessons.

  • - [Announcer] Cullen Jones is a four-time

  • Olympic medalist swimmer for team USA.

  • - [Cullen] Right after getting the gold medal in 2008,

  • they put the drowning rates in front of me

  • and I learned that 70% of African Americans,

  • nearly 60% of Latin Americans and nearly 40% of Caucasians

  • don't know how to swim.

  • So it's a big problem all over the US.

  • I think the reason that we don't see as many

  • African Americans in swimming is because

  • there's such a stigma that black people don't swim

  • and this is something that needs to be broken

  • because we are losing children, we are losing adults,

  • and it's something that can be changed by swim lessons.

  • So when I want you guys to kick,

  • I want you guys to push your arms right above the water.

  • Swimming lessons are so important to kids to me personally

  • because I was almost one of those kids

  • and part of the statistic.

  • - [Announcer] When Cullen was just five years old,

  • he almost drowned on a water slide at an amusement park.

  • - They had to come out and grab me and resuscitate me

  • because I was underwater for about 30 seconds.

  • I think what's important about this story is that

  • I was fully supervised, I mean, it was that easy

  • and that quick for me to go underwater.

  • That could have been my last day on this earth.

  • - [Announcer] And with that near-death experience

  • Cullen has made it his platform to bring

  • water safety education to kids from all backgrounds.

  • - Back stroke.

  • The way that I'm trying to change my community

  • is definitely with working with the

  • Make a Splash Initiative.

  • I knew this was my way of giving back to a sport

  • that has given me so much.

  • Once you learn how to swim, it's like riding a bike,

  • you never forget.

  • So take the time and learn how to swim.

- You know, it's so funny, I get this question all the time.

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溺死を終わらせるために働くオリンピック金メダリスト (The Olympic Gold Medalist Working to End Drowning)

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    許大善 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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