Year: 2018
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‘Wolf pack’ sex attackers forced to leave Spanish swimming pool after being recognised
Members of the notorious “wolf pack†group convicted of sexually abusing a teenager have been forced to leave a swimming pool in Seville. The group have been the subject of public vitriol in Spainsince five of its members were sentenced to nine years in prison in April for sexual abuse. The men were cleared of rape and sentenced to the lesser…
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Fijian Assistant Minister officiates at the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championship
Assistant Minister for Youth and Sports, Hon. Iliesa Delana was the chief guest and officiates at the opening of the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championship at Aquatic Centre, Suva.
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Mosul girls learn to swim a year after city’s liberation from IS group
It’s been just over a year since the Iraqi city of Mosul was liberated from the Islamic State group. Some 870,000 people have since returned to their hometown in a bid to rebuild their lives. Some are doing things that would have been unimaginable a year ago. One of them is Omar Ibrahim, a swimming…
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Michael Phelps opens up on mental health issues
It was in 2014, following a second drink driving charge and a six-month suspension from USA Swimming, that Michael Phelps started to talk. It wasn’t easy at first. The 23-time Olympic gold medalist had suffered a downward spiral that had got so bad he confined himself to one room for five days. But talking has…
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Tokyo Governor Casts Doubt on Daylight Savings for 2020 Olympics
Tokyo’s highest official is casting doubt on government plans to institute daylight savings time in 2019 and 2020 to help manage the scorching heat during the Summer Olympics. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Monday that she was concerned about the expense and disruption of moving clocks forward by two hours during summer months for two…
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FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships 2018 | Eilat (Israel)
The FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships 2018 will welcome the world’s best junior open water swimmers! More than 300 girls and boys will compete from 6 to 9 September in Eilat, Israel!
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22 Disneyland Paris guests and staff accidentally poisoned by swimming pool chemical mix-up
Guests and staff were accidentally poisoned at a hotel in Disneyland Paris over a mix-up with chemicals in its swimming pool. The incident took place at the New York Hotel in Paris suburb Chessy, France, last Friday, with 22 people treated for nausea and breathing problems. Paris’ Le Parisian reports that the incident happened after…
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The war against doping can’t be won, says IOC President Thomas Bach
The International Olympic Committee has embarked on an ambitious strategic roadmap for the future: The Olympic Agenda 2020. It includes 40 recommendations that aim to make sure the games are clean and good governance measures are applied. In an exclusive interview with CNNMoney Switzerland, IOC President Thomas Bach says the committee is on track with…
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Michael Phelps: To a naked eye, Milorad Cavic won — 10th anniversary of Beijing butterfly
So many onlookers thought Milorad Cavic beat Michael Phelps in the Beijing Olympic 100m butterfly. Even Phelps himself. “To a naked eye, he won the race,†Phelps said in an Omega documentary first published in 2016. The 10th anniversary of that final — which Phelps won by .01 on a come-from-behind, half-stroke finish — is…