Year: 2019
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Weather You Know: Why can’t we swim during a lighting and thunder storm?
Now it’s time on #MorningBlend10 for Weather You Know, when Rob Carlmark answer kids’ questions about… well, the weather.
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Freeze Divers. Freediving under ice, Russian freediver’s daring world record attempt
Andrey Matveenko is an experienced freediver and multiple Freediving World Championship medalist, but diving under the ice is a new experience for him. Freediving is challenging as it is, but doing it in the subzero temperatures and pitch-black darkness of a frozen sea pushes even the most experienced to the edge in this extreme sport.…
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Rome to bid for 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Rome intends to bid to host the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, following approval by mayor Virginia Raggi and the city council. The announcement comes ten years after Rome hosted the World Swimming Championships in 2009, an event which was successful from a sporting point of view but which led to cases of corruption surrounding the…
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Professionals, amateurs make a splash in Yangtze River swimming race
Over 50 professional swimmers from 15 countries battled it out in the water at the 45th Wuhan Yangtze River Crossing Festival. The race covered a distance of about 1,800 meters from Hanyangmen in Wuhan’s Wuchang District to Nan’anzui in the Hanyang District. Chinese swimmers won both the women’s and men’s individual championships. The event also…
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Man attacked by seal while swimming off Devon coast
The victim was taken to hospital after he was injured near Shoalstone Pool in Brixham, Devon, yesterday morning. Seals can get defensive when swimmers get too close to their pups and this is thought to have been the case in this situation. The attack prompted immediate warnings for swimmers to keep clear of seals. Read…
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Japanese record-breaking free diver Sayuri Kinoshita, 30, dies after fall from apartment
Record-breaking Japanese free diver Sayuri Kinoshita died Monday following a fall from her apartment in Okinawa Prefecture last week, according to police and her family. Sayuri Kinoshita, 30, was rushed to hospital early Thursday morning following an emergency call from a neighbor who found her unconscious in a parking lot below her apartment in Yomitan.…
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Two Brothers Drown In Swimming Pool In Uniontown
According to police, two brothers ages 1 and 3 drown in their home swimming pool in Uniontown.
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Former swimming coach at Ft. Carson pleads guilty to sexual abuse of a minor
Walter James Winkler, age 48, formerly of El Paso County, Colorado, pled guilty this week to sexual abuse of a minor
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Highlights – Day 5 | FINA World Championships 2019 – Gwangju
Enjoy the highlights of day 5 at the FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju! #FINAGwangju2019