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Competitive swimmers are looking to improve their performance with a new piece of tech from TritonWear. This new piece of wearable tech analyzes nearly every aspect of their swim and records it in real time to a tablet or computer. The device itself is rather unobtrusive and attaches to the strap of your goggles. After powering on, it uses motion sensors to record stroke count, turn time, time underwater, and much more. By beaming the data directly to an iPad, a coach can then analyze and compare specific swimmers across an entire team. Read Digital Trends https://youtu.be/xIY4Wjgn9-o

This is crazy https://swimswam.com/katinka-hosszu-now-owns-all-of-the-hungarian-sc-national-records/ https://youtu.be/7_xvtzYG-h8

The head of Kenya’s swimming federation, Ben Ekumbo, was reportedly found hiding under a bed before being arrested as part of the country’s inquiry into missing money and equipment following Rio 2016. Ekumbo, who is also the vice-president of Kenya’s Olympic committee, is the fifth senior official to be arrested as part of the inquiry. Police officers allegedly found boxes of Nike running shoes and unused Kenya uniforms that were supposed to be for athletes at the Games. Investigators are looking into a report that senior officials stole more than £6.4m in expenses and equipment. Read The Guardian https://youtu.be/_EJPcxu-w88 https://youtu.be/313TT9P7K3Y

South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan has claimed he was offered lucrative sponsorship contracts and a high-profile role at a university in Seoul by a Government official in return for not competing at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Park, the Beijing 2008 400 metres freestyle gold medallist, was only cleared to take part at Rio 2016 a month before the Games following a successful appeal against a Korean Olympic Committee ruling forbidding athletes from representing any national team for three years after a doping suspension. The 27-year-old, one of South Korea’s household sporting names, was banned in 2014 after…

The International Paralympic Committee has detailed anti-doping standards Russia must meet to regain membership after a state-backed doping program was exposed. The IPC says Russia’s Paralympic body must also “publicly distance itself from all political/propaganda-type statements issued by Russian authorities.” Read CBC Photo by The Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The FINA Honorary Secretary and LEN President visited the Headquarters of the Budapest 2017 Organising Committee during his one-day trip to the Hungarian capital. https://youtu.be/y-TTSqGwIbM

‘Anyways, an Olympic final, Gregorio Paltrinieri, last lap, everyone is getting crazy, it’s amazing, amazing, unbelievable, look at him, look at him, oh my god, last ten meters, he is going to die in that water, look at the stroke, he’s awful, now, but I mean, he’s perfect, perfect!’ :-) https://youtu.be/yiqgRAicrvI

A multinational group of swimmers swam seven hours through the salty, soupy waters of the Dead Sea on Tuesday in a bid to draw attention to the environmental degradation of the fabled lake. At dawn, the 25 swimmers left on boats from Ein Gedi on the Israeli side of the Dead Sea to Wadi Mujib on the Jordanian side. Then, wearing special protective masks and snorkels, the swimmers paddled through the thick waters in what turned into an 11-mile swim from Jordan to Israel. Swimming in the Dead Sea is unusual. Tourists typically dip themselves from the beaches and float…

It’s not every day the most decorated Olympian of all time strolls into your living room, so Lori Loughlin feels pretty lucky. PEOPLE Now recently caught up with the Fuller House star, who revealed the backstory behind her epic Instagram pic with Michael Phelps back in August. Random night when your husband tells you he's having a few friends over and @m_phelps00 walks in your house.🏅🇺🇸 @gfore A photo posted by Lori Loughlin (@loriloughlin) on Aug 25, 2016 at 7:27am PDT See People https://youtu.be/Rmp1s9eBNoU

Russian swimmer Vitaly Melnikov has been handed an eight-year ban by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Doping Panel after failing an out-of-competition drug test. The 26-year-old tested positive for a growth hormone on March 29, with the swimmer now set to be banned until April 21, 2024. Melnikov had previously served a two-year doping suspension from 2013 to 2015, after a positive test at the 2013 European Short Course Championships. On that occasion, he was found to have taken the banned blood booster erythropoietin, leading to the swimmer being stripped of a 100m backstroke silver and a 4x50m medley relay…