Month: June 2015
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Sports and Activists Battle over #Baku2015
The European Games kicks off in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, on Friday. It’s the first Olympic-style sporting festival for the continent – but a hashtag first used by organisers and originally meant to celebrate the games has been turned on its head by human rights campaigners. #Baku2015Â has been tweeted nearly 100,000 times in the last…
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Ben Hooper on why he wants to swim 2,000 miles across the Atlanic Ocean
When adventurer Ben Hooper was five, he drowned in a Belgian swimming pool. This experience alone may excusably put off many from ever going near water again. But the father of one from Cheltenham is one of the few, rather than the many. The unassuming former police officer, 36, went to the entirely opposite end…
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Number of swimmers in England drops by 390,000 in the last year
The sports minister Tracey Crouch has promised to deliver a new strategy for sport “as a matter of urgency†following a decline in participation. New figures published by Sport England have shown that the number of people playing sport has fallen, with swimming the most badly affected. Swimming is the country’s most popular sport with more…
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Russian and Ukranian athletes get into fight in Baku 2015 Athlete’s Village
In the Athletes Village in Baku athletes from Russia and Ukraine had a fight, reports our source in the Athletes Village of the European Games. According to the information, there was a verbal sparring between a group of Russian and Ukrainian athletes. Athletes could not hold back emotions and met in melee. Staff of the…
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Three Austrian swimmers hit by bus in Baku 2015 Athlete’s Village
Three 15-year-old Austrian synchronised swimmers were hurt in a collision with a bus while walking in the athletes’ village at the European Games in Baku. The Austrian Olympic Committee (AOC) said Vanessa Sahinovic was “severely injured” and would be flown to Vienna for further treatment. Luna Pajer will also be flown back to the Austrian…
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Waterproof Jacksonville Expands Free Swim Lessons for Youth
Waterproof Jacksonville is expanding it’s reach once again this year in order to teach more kids to swim and be safe in the water.
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Swim school teaches children with special needs
With two children lost in one day from drowning. We learned one of them was a 7-year-old child on the autism spectrum.
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“Pinoy Aquaman” dives into Chesapeake Bay swim challenge
He’s known as the “Pinoy Aquaman” and now this Filipino triathlete has taken on a new challenge — the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim. Don Tagala tells us about the latest adventure of Ingemar Macarine.
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Woman Rescued From Lake Harriet After 7 Minutes Underwater
A 20-year-old woman is alive Wednesday night after a dramatic rescue at a popular Minneapolis beach. The woman and a 17-year-old girl were trying to swim to a floating dock on Lake Harriet just before 5 p.m. Both went underwater, and the teenager made it safely back to shore — but the woman never resurfaced.…