Year: 2016
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Ghana’s fastest swimmer seeks funds to realize Olympics dream
Twenty-year-old Ophelia Swayne, Ghana’s fastest swimmer, is trying to raise funds to achieve her dream of becoming Ghana’s first woman swimmer to make it to the Olympics. The freestyle and butterfly specialist needs to shave just a second off her time to qualify for this year’s Olympics in Rio, Brazil. She has however indicated that…
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Bob Bowman discusses ‘The Golden Rules’ on TODAY
Bob Bowman‘s book, “The Golden Rules,â€came out Tuesday, and the decorated Olympic swimming coach discussed it with Matt Lauer on TODAY. See NBC Sports
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AquaSonic: The First Band To Perform Underwater With Their Subaquatic Music
The AquaSonic band would amaze you with their unique and somewhat weird way of performing music. This is because the members of the band can sing and play musical instruments underwater. See Science World Report
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 8
Italy, Hungary open strong, three medals apiece Italy and Hungary got a flying start on the opening day of the swimming competition at the European Aquatics Championships in the London Aquatics Centre by clinching three medals apiece. Gabriele Detti (ITA) and Katinka Hosszu (HUN) captured the individual golds on offer, and both nations got two…
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Ian Thorpe launches bizarre new business
The swim champ is either pulling our chain, or has started a pool cleaning business. Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe has launched what looks to be a premium pool cleaning business. The former Olympic champion announced the new business via his personal Twitter account on Friday afternoon. “After months of keeping it on the down…
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Austria Fears Its Famously Clear Gruner See Is Turning Colors – From Urine
One of the most famous sites in Austria – a lake with emerald-green, but clear, water that goes from a depth of three feet in winter to more than 40 in the summer and creates an underwater park – is having a …. how shall we put this …. a pee-pee problem. Locals are concerned…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 7
Daley close to perfection, Cagnotto makes it 20 Tom Daley’s outstanding performance highlighted the last day of diving action in the London Aquatics Centre. The Briton won the 10m platform with a 570-point overall score, which is higher than what was required here to clinch the Olympic title four years ago. Italy’s Tania Cagnotto added…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 6
Queen of Europe, Tania Cagnotto captures 19th gold Italy’s Tania Cagnotto took a 28-27 ‘lead’ on the all-time medal table at the Europeans over Germany’s Patrick Hausding by clinching the 3m title with ease on Saturday. Ukraine added another gold to their impressive tally in diving (3-2-3) by winning the mixed 10m synchro ahead of…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships Day 5
Russia, Ukraine on the roll, happy end for the Brits Russia finished the synchro events with eight gold medals. They earned them in as many starts, the remaining one went to the Ukrainians in the team free event which the Russians skipped this time. Ukraine had a fine evening in the diving pool as well…