Year: 2018
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‘Sea Nomads’ Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving
If you hold your breath and plunge your face into a tub of water, your body automatically triggers what’s called the diving response. Your heart rate slows, your blood vessels constrict, and your spleen contracts, all reactions that help you save energy when you’re low on oxygen. Most people can hold their breath underwater for…
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Michael Phelps On The Quest To ‘Save Water’ | CNBC
Michael Phelps, “Save Water” ambassador and Olympic gold medalist, talks about his hope to inspire people to turn off the faucet and save water, and dealing with the mental pressure after participating in extreme competition.
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U.S. Freediving Federation Announces Launch
Freediver and tech entrepreneur Jeremy Stephan will announce the formation of the U.S. Freediving Federation (USFF) at the CMAS General Assembly Meeting in Phuket Thailand this week. Started in 1959 by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and recognized by the International Olympic Committee and UNESCO, CMAS comprises over 130 federations including the United States as one of the…
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Golden boy Chad Le Clos to launch swimming academy in Cape Town
Durban-born Chad le Clos, the most decorated swimmer at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Australia, is returning to South Africa to pursue a dream. On Friday, he will launch the Chad Le Clos Academy (CLeC) at the Quadrant Complex in Claremont, Cape Town. With a total of 17 career gold medals to his name, three…
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How water polo MVP Ashleigh Johnson smashed stereotypes | Game Breakers
Not only was Johnson the first ever African American woman to compete for Team USA in water polo, she was crowned tournament MVP in Rio.
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Meet Sophie McAfee: The American diver looking for Youth Olympic Gold | Youth Olympic Games
Sophie McAfee competed at her first senior national at age 12, and since then has continued to pursue her dreams of representing the USA at the Olympics in diving! Hear from Sophie as she looks ahead to her first appearance at the Youth Olympic Games 2018 Buenos Aires.
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Diving Deep With 5 Incredible Swimmers
In this reel, we stay afloat with stories of five incredible swimmers. We make our way through the Mississippi River with a former Navy SEAL, meet a synchronized swimmer smashing stereotypes, and get our adrenaline pumping with a champion cliff diver.
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Team Scotland Arrive Home After Commonwealth Games
Scottish athletes return to Glasgow from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Among them was swimmer Duncan Scott who won a record six medals at one Games.
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Hungarian police arrest member of world swimming’s governing body over 1998 murder
When Hungarian media tycoon Janos Fenyo was gunned down in his car by a dozen submachine gun bullets in downtown Budapest two decades ago it shocked the country and police never found who ordered the murder. Now police have detained Tamas Gyarfas, an executive at world swimming’s governing body, on suspicion of ordering the murder,…