Author: rokur

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. https://youtu.be/8Z7TzJAUo68

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. https://youtu.be/6nL7uzm0aqo

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. https://youtu.be/8Vugw4sw3TA

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. https://youtu.be/bSnCVvDVYLM https://youtu.be/cg7qoo5pjFo

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, state news agency MTI said on Tuesday. It was not possible to reach Gyarfas by telephone and there was no immediate comment from the International Swimming Federation (FINA), whose office was closed. Gyarfas is one of FINA’s eight-member executive, according to the body’s website. Fenyo,…

Few swimmers have a greater understanding of how to tease the best performance out of themselves than Aimee Willmott, who has written an academic paper on the subject. Willmott’s dissertation, published in the European Journal of Sport Science, considers the effect clothing worn between a warm-up and competition can have on performance. She concludes that wearing the right garb can give a 0.59% boost in performance, which may not sound significant but in a sport such as swimming the finest margins decide medals. Accordingly, Willmott touched the wall only 0.26sec ahead of Hannah Miley to claim one of Team England’s…

The sports presenter Mike Bushell made a splash as he fell in a swimming pool during a live interview on BBC Breakfast. Bushell was preparing to chat to the England Commonwealth Games swimmers Sarah Vasey, Adam Peaty, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Ben Proud and James Guy, who were sitting on the edge of a small pool on Australia’s Gold Coast. As he got into the shallow water for the interview, he said: “I’m going to be careful because I’ve got a sound pack on.” But having failed to notice there was another step beneath his feet, Bushell then fell into the deeper water. See The…

Swimming stars Ian Thorpe and Giaan Rooney were forced to walk the remainder of their journey to the Commonwealth Games aquatic centre to report on the swimming after the car they were in was seized by police. The pair were riding in the hire car when Gold Coast police pulled it over because it had been listed in their database as a stolen vehicle. Details of the awkward situation were aired by Channel 7 presenters Tom Williams and Mel McLaughlin during coverage of the Games on Saturday night. Queensland Police issued a statement in response to questions by The Australian.…

Freediving training in Gili Trawangan has been an absolute success! Coming here to just train with Mike Board without a freediving competition was the best decision. It has given me the time to rework many aspects of my diving, to tweak things with zero pressure so that my dives are feeling smoother and more effortless than ever! https://youtu.be/V5BaimHFYik

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