Month: March 2017
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‘If she’s in water there’s no need to worry’
Shamita UN can’t tell a gold medal from a bronze. She can’t write or count. But she finds the will to wake up at daybreak and head to the pool for swimming sessions each morning without the lure of reward. Shamita, 16, has intellectual disabilities: She’s diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), typically characterized…
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Glasgow to host 2019 SC Europeans
At its meeting in Gothenburg (SWE), the LEN Bureau has voted on the hosts of several LEN Events. Glasgow (GBR) will stage another major continental showcase, the European Short-Course Swimming Championships in 2019. Genova (ITA) and Hannover (GER) are the next hosts of the men’s water polo Champions League Final Six tournaments between 2018 and…
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British film company buys rights to Syrian swimmer’s story
A British film company has agreed to buy the rights to the story of a teenage refugee who fled Syria and swam at the Olympics a year later. Yusra Mardini and her sister Sara were forced to swim for hours alongside their overloaded boat to reach Greece from Turkey in 2015. The International Olympic Committee…
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Michael Phelps shuts down anti-doping skeptics with fiery Facebook Live rant
Michael Phelps briefly returned to the spotlight last month when he testified about anti-doping before a congressional subcommittee. Phelps detailed the extensive testing process he subjected himself to for 16 years in order to compete in the pool in and for the U.S. But during a Facebook Live on Friday — while touching on a…
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Ian Thorpe’s Bullied documentary for ABC airs to largely positive response
The first half of Ian Thorpe’s boundary-pushing documentary Bullied has been met with substantial praise online from viewers, media figures and even a former Australian Prime Minister after its airing on Tuesday night. See Sydney Morning Herald https://youtu.be/MthNiJvpKOM https://youtu.be/pBgu1lXIRzQ
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Watch a freediver get up close and personal with orcas off the coast of Norway
During the shooting of a documentary in arctic Norway, we got up close and personal with killer whales. Rather than ferocious killers, orcas are gentle and inquisitive, at least when it comes to human encounters. Hundreds of orcas and humpback whales gathers in the Tromsø region in the period of November to January, to feed…
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Frankie Fredericks quits 2024 Olympics role amid corruption probe
Former sprinter Frankie Fredericks quit Tuesday as head of the IOC commission monitoring candidates for the 2024 Olympics amid a probe into money he accepted from a sports marketing chief accused of corruption. Fredericks, 49, strongly denied any wrongdoing in accepting nearly $300,000 (283,000 euros, Sh30 million) around the day that Rio de Janeiro was…
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First Look: Ian Thorpe Hosts New ABC Documentary Series ‘Bullied’
Ian Thorpe will host a controversial new hidden camera documentary series exposing schoolyard bullying, to air on the ABC later this month. “Bullied†is a new social experiment that follows two high school students who have been bullied at their schools, with the incidents captured on hidden camera footage that is then shown to their…