Month: July 2019
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Testing if Sharks Can Smell a Drop of Blood
What is likely happening is that the sharks can smell the blood but it’s just not in a quantity that is interesting to them especially since they don’t love human blood that much (btw, I spoke with a marine biologist and mammal blood is all the same from a chemical marker stand point so cow…
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2020 Olympics 1 Year Out: How Tokyo Is Prepping For Summer Games | TODAY
The one-year countdown to the 2020 Summer Olympics begins! As Tokyo gears up to host the games, NBC’s Keir Simmons takes us around the amazing venues in Japan’s capital city.
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Swimming Waterproof Headphones: A New Way to Deliver Audio
FX-Sport have launched an innovative set of swimming headphones with an integrated premium mp3 player, preloaded customizable workouts, a Tempo Trainer and a Lap Pacemaker. All with a tested methodology for delivering quality audio whilst swimming. Waterproof MP3 players. The current options: There are two main options available to swimmers today who want to listen to music whilst swimming. “In ear†headphones…
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American water polo player describes terrifying balcony collapse that killed 2
“We were having the best night ever celebrating our win, and somehow, a freak accident happened,†Gilchrist told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Along with Hauschild, Gilchrist said she was with Johnny Hooper from the U.S. men’s team when the accident happened. “It was all pretty quick, I think,†Gilchrist said. “But I remember falling and…
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Swim Up Hill – A short doc on US Paralympic Swimmer, Jamal Hill
A Paralympic swimmer from Inglewood, Jamal Hill has blazed through boundaries. Once fully paralyzed from the neck down, and now top ranked in the United States, he teaches us that nothing – and no one – can put a limit on his ambition if he doesn’t impose one on himself. As soon as I met…
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Shayna Jack not alone in returning a positive drug result for Ligandrol
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) was forced to deny any involvement in leaking the positive drug result to the public. Executive director Cornel Marculescu has been very vocal in his distaste for Mack Horton’s stance against Sun Yang. Horton infamously refused to stand on the podium with Yang following allegations the Chinese athlete was tampering…
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Water slides, cabanas, pools: $45 million aquatic center coming to this Sacramento community
Sacramento is one big step closer to having its first Olympic-sized swimming pool. And that’s not all: water slides, a meeting space and shaded bleachers are part of the plans as well. The Sacramento City Council is set to approve $14.4 million in funding for the North Natomas Community Center and Aquatics Center – the…
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Dealing With Difficulties in Stride | Hicham Boufekane | The Bond | July 2019
Swimmer Hicham Boufekane doesn’t just view Mike Thompson as a coach, bur rather a part of his family.