Category: Organization
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Europeans are now fretting about Muslim girls in swimming pools
Swiss authorities recently denied citizenship to a pair of Muslim sisters, 12 and 14, who refused to take part in their school’s swimming lessons alongside boys of their age group in the city of Basel. According to USA Today, the girls had applied for citizenship a few months ago, but their request was denied this week.…
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Former Olympic Swimmer Organising Swimathon To Raise Cash For Cancer Charity
Former Olympic swimmer Katy Sexton is organising a swimathon to raise money for charity Brain Tumour Research. Her sister Kelly Lee had a brain tumour and recovered from it. That’s Solent’s Charlotte Briere-Edney find out how her sister’s illness impacted the swimmer and what Brain Tumour Research does.
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When the CWS & Swim Trials Collide
The Olympic Swim Trials and College World Series are happening at the same time in the same place. Erin Murray reports on how it is affecting everyone getting down there and into the events.
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Even With Confession of Cheating, World’s Doping Watchdog Did Nothing
In December 2012, the World Anti-Doping Agency received an email from an Olympic athlete from Russia. She was asking for help. The athlete, a discus thrower named Darya Pishchalnikova, had won a silver medal four months earlier at the London Olympics. She said that she had taken banned drugs at the direction of Russian sports…
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Rio state declares financial emergency, requests funding for Olympics
Rio de Janeiro’s governor declared a state of financial emergency Friday and requested federal funds to help fulfill obligations for public services during the Olympics that start Aug. 5. Emergency measures are needed to avoid “a total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management,†a decree in the state’s Official Gazette said.…
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Brazil Is Unraveling Before Our Eyes
Brazil is in crisis. The economy has sunk into its biggest slump in a century and political instability surrounding President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment is paralyzing the country. Bloomberg QuickTakes explains how it’s been a slow unraveling for the world’s fifth largest country.
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FINA Responds to Russian Swimming Allegations
These are very serious allegations and we urge anyone with relevant evidence to bring it forward to FINA so that we can share with all appropriate authorities and take immediate disciplinary action if required. FINA is monitoring all developments in the world’s fight against cheating and doping in sport and is taking decisive action to…
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Juror to judge in Stanford swimmer rape case: Sentence ‘ridiculously lenient’
A juror who helped convict a former Stanford University student-athlete of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman complained to the judge about his “ridiculously lenient” six-month jail sentence, which the juror said made a mockery of the panel’s verdict, a newspaper reported Monday. The Palo Alto Weekly published a letter that the juror sent Santa Clara County…