Month: June 2016
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Brazil’s Struggles Will Be Front and Center at Rio Olympics
When Rio won the rights in 2009 to host the summer Olympics, Brazil planned a blitz of projects to showcase how far it had risen. But when tourists start showing up in 2 months to attend the games, it will be the bust and not Brazil’s best that will be on display. Bloomberg’s David Biller…
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The VIP Swim Challenge 2016 – A Race to Save the V.I.P.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times (or more): There is the Coral Triangle, the Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape, and then there is the Verde Island Passage (VIP). The VIP is THE most important body of water in the world. It is the global epicenter of marine biodiversity. And it is a mere…
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Fiona Doyle featured in Electric Ireland #ThePowerWithin Campaign
Medal hopeful Paddy Barnes started boxing at age 11 and, despite losing his first 15 fights, never took a backward step. Rower, Sinead Lynch (nee Jennings), began her rowing journey at 23 years of age, and despite becoming a doctor and having three children in the meantime, is realising her dream of becoming an Olympian…
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Stanford Graduates Use Commencement To Show Support For Rape Victim
Graduates and women’s rights activist took a stand against injustice during the 2016 Stanford University Commencement. Graduates used the graduation as an platform to broadcast their anger over the light 6-month prison sentence that former Stanford University swimmer received after raping a unconscious female student. During the schools “Wacky Walk”, a procession of graduates dressed…
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Who Fired the Mango Missile? – Mystery Baffles Calgary Family
A fast moving mango, weighing 454 grams, fell into a Calgary family’s backyard on Tuesday afternoon. It narrowly missed Lisa Egan while she was rolling up the cover on the family’s pool. “All of a sudden, out of nowhere, something hits the top of the blanket – approximately in the centre – (it was) extremely…
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Gross Diseases You Can Catch in a Pool
It’s pool season, the grandest of all seasons, or so you might think. Sure, days are longer, clothing is skimpier, and the beer is colder, but with pool season comes high risk, especially if there’s poop in the water. Which, it turns out, there is. A lot of it. According to the CDC, every year…
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GoPro Awards: Diving in a Vortex of Sardines
Mathijs takes one gulp of air before diving into a magical world of sardines in Moalboal, Philippines. Captured and submitted by GoPro Awards recipient Mathijs van den Bosch.
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Star High School Football Player Paralyzed In Swim Accident The Day Before Graduation
An East Bay high school football player is paralyzed after a swim accident the day before his graduation. Cate Cauguiran talked to his family now hoping for any signs of recovery. See CBS SFBayArea
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Underwater video captures lucky escape as swordfish spears diver
This is the moment a diver narrowly misses being impaled by a swordfish in the deep sea off the coast of Brazil. Frightening underwater footage shows the menacing fish charging at the scuba diver before piercing through his equipment, and narrowly missing his body. The video shows the 1.5 metre fish thrashing about in attempt…