Category: Organization
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#SwimBiz Pros: All I Need to Know About Business I Learned From Swimming
USA Swimming CMO Matt Farrell hosts a panel on the benefits of swimming and how to talk about swimming and differentiate it from other sports with Susan Teeter, Ellen Lucey and Lindsay Mintenko.
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Promo video for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics released
The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang may have only just finished but already attention is turning to 2020 and Tokyo. Preparations for the 2020 games are well under way and organisers have released a promo video. One big point of the video is how sport has the power to “change the world and our future†with…
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Japanese condom-makers hope for rise in sales with 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Japanese condom-makers are ramping up preparations ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, seeing a golden opportunity to showcase their world-record ultrathin products. For years, hundreds of thousands of condoms have been distributed for free to competitors at Olympic Games in a bid to encourage safe sex among the world’s fittest athletes. The tradition provides…
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Baby Otter Swim School offers 5-day program in effort to eliminate child drownings
Baby Otter Swim School is a traveling swim program providing services to prevent child drowning.
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Pastors learn to swim for good cause
Nearly 80 percent of children in low-income households, either don’t know how to swim or can’t swim very well.
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E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Pushing For Non-Violent Video Games In The Olympics
Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company and the owner of an esports business, is willing to promote adding esports to the Olympics – so long as they aren’t violent. Chief executive officer of AliSports Zhang Dazhong recently told Bloomberg it’s “pushing for soccer, car racing and other games to be endorsed as an official competitive sport.” It’s worth pointing out,…
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Trump on Olympics: ‘Hard to sell tickets when you think you’re going to be nuked’
President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited him with the success of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and threw out a line about the North Korean nuclear threat. “President Moon of South Korea said without Donald Trump the Olympics would have been a total failure,” Trump said. “It’s true, true.…
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Brown University suspends men’s swim team after confirming hazing allegations
Brown University has announced that it has found its men’s swimming and diving team responsible for incidents of hazing and other conduct code violations. As a result, the university said in a statement, it is suspending the team as a student organization through May 27. The suspension prohibits any team activity. The team will be…