Month: January 2016
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Team SwimOutlet Athletes Unveiled for 2016
San Jose, CA (January 27, 2016) – With the big year ahead for swimming and other aquatics sports, SwimOutlet.com has unveiled its first-ever Team SwimOutlet group of athletes. World silver medalist Cammile Adams, 2015 world champion Haley Anderson, teenage phenom Michael Andrew, four-time Olympian Tony Azevedo and the USA Synchro Olympic duet team are all…
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Joseph Schooling – the swimmer
While he may be part of the university swim team and aiming for an Olympic medal, Schooling is still very much the average boy. https://youtu.be/ndZv2KvRFag
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Around the Island Swim 2015
Around the Island Swim in Langebaan. A well organized yearly event. Next date: 16 April 2016
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Icelandic school removes restroom signs, gender-specific swimwear requirements
An Icelandic elementary school has removed gender signs from its bathrooms in an effort to become “gender neutralâ€. The principal thinks that other schools should do the same. […] And removing gender signs from restroom isn’t the only change the school has brought about this year. It has also changed one of the instructions regarding…
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GoPro video footage can now be broadcast using Twitter’s Periscope app
GoPro action camera users can now broadcast their daring adventures live through Twitter’s Periscope app, opening the door to a whole new dimension of real-time video sharing. The live-streaming app announced on Tuesday that it was now integrated with GoPro, meaning that the sometimes insane footage captured on wearable cameras can now find a much…
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A drone that can fly, float and dive underwater
In the future, there will be no escape from robotic observation. Proof (if proof were needed) comes in the form of Loon Copter, a drone developed by Oakland University’s Embedded Systems Research Laboratory that can not only fly, but also land on and even navigate under the water’s surface. The Loon Copter project has been…
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The Fina Windsor 2016 Website Has Launched
In December 2016, Windsor will welcome up to 1,000 of the world’s top swimmers from over 175 countries as they compete for World Championship glory in the 13th edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m.) Expected to draw more than 35,000 spectators, this elite competition will bring the world’s best swimmers together to compete…
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Plano inventor dreams of stopping drownings with drones over troubled water
Sporting bare feet and a shiny necktie, Rujing Tang sat in his dining room and wandered back in time. When he was 10, about the age of his fresh-faced fifth-grade daughter, one of his childhood friends went out to swim in a small river in his birthplace of Shanghai. He never came back. That haunting…
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Matt Welsh, Austswim urge water safety education this summer
Paramedics treated nine people in one day last week for swimming-related injuries, including one near drowning in the Yarra River. According to Ambulance Victoria four adults, four teenagers and a child were taken to hospital after separate incidents at various beaches and the Yarra on Sunday, January 17. The incidents follow a warning from peak…