Year: 2016
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Lidos: UK rekindles passion for swimming
Swimmers across Britain will greet the longest day by plunging into a pool tomorrow. Many will take that summer solstice dip amid the splendour of a restored public lido or municipal baths as the national appetite for preserving historic leisure facilities grows. Last week, the Grade II*-listed Victoria Baths in Manchester, which has been closed…
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Putin slams Russian athletes Rio Olympics doping ban
Vladimir Putin has condemned the decision by the world athletics’ governing body to uphold a ban on Russia for systematic doping, thereby excluding its track and field competitors from this summer’s Rio Olympics.
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Sweden transgender ruling risks topless swimming precedent
Sweden’s anti-discrimination watchdog has found in favour of a transgender person who was banned from swimming topless at a swimming pool. The country’s “Diskrimineringsombudsman” (DO) found that the pool’s decision was illegal and that anyone identifying as transgender should be permitted to swim in public pools without having to cover their breasts. Local media have…
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Fresh doping allegations in Russian swimming prompt Fina concerns
Whistleblowers have been urged to come forward to help the fight against doping after fresh allegations of Russian wrongdoing have surfaced, this time in swimming. According to reports in the Times and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, two senior Russian anti-doping officials offered to stop testing Russian swimmers for money in the buildup to London 2012.…
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Judge in Stanford swimmer case: ‘I take him at his word’
A recently released transcript is offering a window into the mindset of a California judge who sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Turner faced a maximum sentence of 14 years, but Judge Aaron Persky of Santa Clara Superior Court sentenced him instead to six months. Prosecutors had asked…
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U.S. Olympians Attempt Other Sports, Look Average In Ad Campaign (Video)
Olympians are incredible athletes. There’s no question about that. But how about when they try their athleticism in another sport? They can appear to be just a regular Joe Schmoe who doesn’t know what they’re doing. In an ad campaign for Milk Life, some Olympic medalists switched sports. In one video, swimmer Elizabeth Beisel met…
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Six-year-old recovering from serious infection after swim in Virginia Beach
Newport News mother tells 8News sister station WAVY that her young child developed a serious bacterial infection after swimming at a local beach.
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Physical Exercise Four Hours after Learning Improves Long-Term Memory, Study Shows
A new study in the journal Current Biology shows that physical exercise after learning improves memory and memory traces, but only if the exercise is done in a specific time window and not immediately after learning. “It shows that we can improve memory consolidation by doing sports after learning,†said study corresponding author Dr. Guillén…
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