Month: June 2016
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Stanford Swimmer Rapist Judge Removed from Similar Case
According to local prosecutors, Judge Aaron Persky has been taken off of a case involving a male nurse who sexually assaulted an anesthetized female patient. Judge Persky declined to send former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. https://youtu.be/YnKBkLmOfqA
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You can swim with millions of jellyfish in this lake
Jellyfish Lake is isolated from the ocean in Palau, an island nation in the South Pacific.
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Russia Doping: New Wada Report Reveals Obstructions to Testing
Anti-doping officials in Russia are being stopped from testing athletes and threatened by security services, says a World Anti-Doping Agency report. The report was published two days before athletics’ governing body rules on whether Russian competitors can take part in the Rio Olympics this summer. In November, Russia’s athletes were banned after a Wada report…
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Teenager dies after getting into trouble swimming under a waterfall with friends
Police have warned of the dangers of open water swimming after a sixteen-year-old boy died after getting into difficulties under a 70-foot high waterfall. Curtis Atherton, from Hartlepool, got into difficulty in the pool below High Force in Teesdale, County Durham, at around 8pm yesterday. He was found in the water following a major search operation at…
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Juror to judge in Stanford swimmer rape case: Sentence ‘ridiculously lenient’
A juror who helped convict a former Stanford University student-athlete of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman complained to the judge about his “ridiculously lenient” six-month jail sentence, which the juror said made a mockery of the panel’s verdict, a newspaper reported Monday. The Palo Alto Weekly published a letter that the juror sent Santa Clara County…
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2-Year-Old Snatched by Alligator at Disney Hotel in Florida Remains Missing
After searching through the night, rescue workers have not yet found a 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was dragged away by an alligator at a lake at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa on Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday morning. “This is still a search-and-rescue operation,†Jeff Williamson, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office,…
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Nine year old boy breaks record with Alcatraz Swim
On Tuesday, a nine year old boy braved the waves of San Francisco Bay to complete the two mile swim to Alcatraz and back. Californian James Savage has been swimming since he was 5. He and his coach worked together to train for the big swim. James said that about 30 minutes into the two…
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Sportleaks.com Launches Platform for Sports and Doping Whistleblowers
SportsLeaks.com and DopingLeaks.com are one and the same website. It is a secure global platform which enables you to drop off information and files to investigative sports journalists working around the world. We have all received leaked data in the past from whistleblowers. That spawned the idea of creating a secure platform in order to…