Author: rokur

Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said it has started investigating allegations of doping by the Russian and Chinese swimming teams. At a conference on Monday, WADA President Craig Reedie said it has “started inquiries into the suggestion of doping” by Russian and Chinese swimmers in conjunction with FINA. Reedie noted “a wave of new troubling allegations” about doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, including the systemic manipulation of urine and blood samples. He said WADA fully backed the decision last week to ban Russia’s athletics team from international competition. Read The News Tribune https://youtu.be/kvrNCF0UkxY https://youtu.be/44v9Z8zYj1w

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In Easley, South Carolina two 3 year old twin boys fell into a backyard swimming pool and drowned. Emergency officials were called around 2:30 p.m. after the twins were discovered. According to a source, the second twin boy died shortly after the first. https://youtu.be/j9f5-reBGEo

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Michael Phelps is onto a whole new chapter in his life. A little over a month after welcoming his first child , Boomer Phelps , into the world, the Olympic swimmer got more good news: he has officially completed his probation stemming from his 2014 DUI arrest . The Maryland Dept. of Public Safety and Correctional Services confirms to E! News that he finished his probation on Sunday. “He is free,” a spokesperson told us. “He followed the orders requested and is now free.” https://youtu.be/aO4cfa7yh08

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Frenchman Arthur Guerin-Boeri recently competed in the 9th CMAS Apnea Indoor World Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy and set Freediving history with an amazing 300m / 984ft Dynamic Apnea swim. To put that in perspective that is six lengths of a 50m Olympic sized swimming pool – it can only be described as epic! Read interview here on DeeperBlue.com https://youtu.be/48vZ1h7m0kE

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In December 2012, the World Anti-Doping Agency received an email from an Olympic athlete from Russia. She was asking for help. The athlete, a discus thrower named Darya Pishchalnikova, had won a silver medal four months earlier at the London Olympics. She said that she had taken banned drugs at the direction of Russian sports and antidoping authorities and that she had information on systematic doping in her country. Please investigate, she implored the agency in the email, which was written in English. “I want to cooperate with WADA,” the email said. But WADA, the global regulator of doping in…

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