Category: Organization
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Sigma Gamma Rho, Swim 1922 & USA Swimming
USA Swimming is partnered with Sigma Gamma Rho sorority in an effort to provide learn to swim opportunities in under served areas.
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No One’s Buying Tickets to the Winter Olympics
Olympic tickets usually sell pretty quickly, but when the country on your northern border makes regular threats about launching nuclear weapons, that can have a chilling effect on sales. South Korea’s learning that lesson, as domestic ticket sales for the PyeongChang games, which start in roughly five months, have been incredibly slow. Of the 750,000…
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IOC admit votes may have been bought by Diack in Olympic Games bidding process
In a statement following the first morning IOC Executive Board here, they said they had taken “immediate action” regarding possible corruption in the election process. Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman was taken into custody last Tuesday (September 5) under suspicion of involvement in a vote-buying scheme in the Brazilian city’s successful bid for the event.…
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Hickey resigns from IOC executive amid tickets scandal
Ireland’s former Olympic chief Pat Hickey has resigned from the International Olympic Committee’s executive board after becoming embroiled in a ticket-selling scandal at last year’s Rio Games. Hickey, 72, was arrested by Brazilian police during the Games and held in jail. He was eventually released on bail after the Association of National Olympic Committees loaned…
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Whistle-Blower Says He Told of Rio Olympics Corruption Years Ago
A former sports official in Brazil said he told the International Olympic Committee about corruption among organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics several years ago – long before law enforcement officers raided the home of Brazil’s top Olympic official this week during a continuing investigation into corruption and bribery. The police found the equivalent of…
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#SwimBiz: Disruptive Marketing: How Uber Revolutionized Transportation Through Partnerships
Marshall Osborne of Uber talks about how Uber revolutionized transportation through partnerships and how some of those ideas can help your club. https://youtu.be/PVn1AcZjkag
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Police raid home of Brazil Olympics chief over Rio 2016 vote buying
Brazilian investigators said on Tuesday that politicians and the head of the national Olympic committee arranged a $2 million bribe to bring the 2016 games to Rio de Janeiro, despite the city having the worst conditions to host the event. Police in Rio raided the home of Brazil’s Olympics chief, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, after prosecutors…
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1500 Meters for Mike 2017
On September 16, 2017 the swimming community of the tri-state area will come together again at Belmar Beach, NJ in the largest open swim on the New Jersey Coast to honor the memory of a fellow swimmer, The College of New Jersey’s Michael Heaney and support victims of Traumatic Brain Injury by swimming 1500 Meters…
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Professor Stephen Hawking’s personal message to London City Swimmers
Professor Stephen Hawking gives his support to London City Swim, and his thanks to all those that are taking part #SwimforMND