Month: May 2016
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Navy Seal Student Dies During ‘Legendary Difficult’ BUD/S Pool Training
James Derek Lovelace was attempting to do an exercise called ‘drown proofing’ An underwater training course for Navy SEALs that the Washington Post calls “legendarily difficult” proved fatal Friday for one student at a California naval station. James Derek Lovelace, 21, who had just joined the Navy six months ago and completed basic training in…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 3
Magic of the mermaids Russia doubled up synchro golds and Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina produced a women’s duet which was truly a class above the rest. In diving, Tania Cagnotto clinched her 18th European title and the 7th in the 1m, while Tom Daley and Grace Reid delivered the first gold for the hosts…
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Former Brazilian soccer star: Don’t come to the Rio Olympics
With the Olympics set to begin in less than three months in Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s most successful soccer players has a surprisingly ominous message for international visitors: Stay away. Brazil is getting “more ugly,” said Rivaldo, who was on the country’s 2002 World Cup-winning squad, forming part of a lethal attacking trio…
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Microsoft Research wants to pit you against virtual swimmers
You don’t need other people to swim, but a Microsoft Research project can spice up your swimming routine by putting you in or pitting you against virtual teams. Redmond’s research division is working with a team of researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to develop SwimTrain. It’s a system consisting of…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 2
Ischenko’s reign goes on, Kvasha and the Germans shine in the diving pool Natalia Ishchenko proved that she is still the queen of synchro, pulling out a clean win once more in the solo free. The first non-Russian gold in London went to Ukraine’s Illya Kvasha, who clinched the 1m title in diving, while Germany’s…
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Road to Rio | Fiona Doyle
Fiona Doyle is a swimmer from Limerick, who lives, works and trains on a Sports scholarship at the University of Calgary. Travelling across the globe in pursuit of the Olympic qualifying time isn’t easy, but it is even tougher for Fiona, as she is to live so far from her family.
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81-year-old swimmer Bill Lauer beats UT students in race
Eighty-one-year-old swimmer Bill Lauer races against professor Dave Bassett’s kinesiology students at the UT student aquatic center Tuesday, May 10, 2016.
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Desperate to Leave Greece Refugees Swim Back to Turkey
Four refugees staying in Souda, one of three camps on the island of Chios, attempted to swim to Turkey on Monday after giving up on the near-static asylum process. Get the full story: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/… Read for instance ekathimerini.com