Month: June 2016
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Swim Ireland – Year in Review
For up to the minute news on Swimming, Water Polo and Diving around Ireland
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Olympians use Santa Clara swim meet to prepare for Rio
A recent swim meet in Santa Clara was packed with Olympians preparing for this summer’s games in Rio.
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Brock Turner Rape Case: Vice President Joe Biden Writes Open Letter To Victim | TODAY
Vice president Joe Biden released an open letter to the rape victim at the center of the Stanford sexual assault case. Meantime, new pictures and text messages released by the court appear to show Brock Turner a history of drug use. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz reports for TODAY.
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9-year-old trains for Alcatraz swim
James Savage doesn’t have a criminal record, but he’s headed to Alacatraz. The 9-year-old is looking to break a world record, preparing to swim three miles to perform a touch-and-go to Alcatraz Island. Right now, that record is held by a 10-year-old. See wwlp.com
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Wu Minxia & Shi Tingmao – China’s favourite Divers
Wu Minxia was elected the FINA female diver of the year 2012 and 2012. She is the first Chinese athlete with three consecutive olympic golds. Shi Tingmao won the FINA female diver of the year award in 2015 and was a world champion in 2011 and 2015. Together they earned even more titles, but see…
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Ludacris teams with Olympians to teach kids to swim
It’s an open secret in the black community – blacks can’t swim. And the generalization doesn’t end there. The stereotyping as to why seems less important than the life threatening data: 70 percent of black children don’t know how to float, tread water or even splash in the shallow end of the pool. Atlanta rapper…
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German swimming pool bans ‘burqini’ for Muslim women
A style of swimwear has caused an uproar at a public pool in Germany, but the culprit isn’t a revealing bikini. Instead, it’s the ‘burqini’ that’s been banned – the modest swimsuit worn by some Muslim women. When the indoor pool in Neutraubling, Germany, held a women-only day, one of the swimmers opted to wear…
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Free LIVE streaming from the FINA Marathon Swimming Olympic Qualification Open Water Meet in Setubal (POR)
The FINA Marathon Swimming Olympic Games Qualification Tournament – in Setubal (POR) – on June 11-12 – will be live streamed worldwide, free of charge, on FINA YOUTUBE. Please follow the two different links to watch the women’s on Saturday and the men’s race on Sunday: Saturday 11/06/2016 Women’s race at 16:00 (GMT+1) : LINK…
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Perfect Backstroke Technique at Badger Swim Club | Gillette World Sport
Badger Swim Club is one of the most successful clubs in the United States, training many of the worlds greatest swimmers and coaches. World Sport sat down with head coach John Collins and Puerto Rican Swim Team member, Eric Culver, as they discuss the perfect backstroke.