Category: Safety
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Sex abuse haunts former Olympic swim hopeful
Amid the excitement of the Olympic games, one former Olympic hopeful is speaking out on the darker side of youth sports. Kelley Currin says she was molested as a teen by Rick Curl, her former swim coach and founder of the prominent Curl-Burke Swim Club in the Washington, D.C. area. Read and listen to this…
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Ehm, The X-Treme Faser Waterslide Is ‘Too Fast for Female Anatomy’
German waterpark “Galaxy Erding” has made their X-Treme Faser waterslide attraction “Nur für Männer” for security reasons ‘due to the female anatomy’. This after six women had reported injuries to the genital area last year, and some of them had to be taken to hospital. The Professional Association for Gynaecologists is sceptical, a spokeswoman saying…
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Kellogg’s “Swimmer” London 2012 Olympic Games Film
Wow, this is totally my kind of ad: “As the world gathers to honor the glory of the finish, lets take a moment and celebrate the promise of the start”
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The Curl affair was “The Worst Kept Secret in Washingtonâ€
Read Caps & Goggles: This is all plenty scandalous and distasteful, but that’s not the worst of it. Here’s the part to make you gag: EVERYONE ALREADY KNEW. The worst part about this breaking news is that it’s not news at all – not to the swimmers and coaches and parents who grew up swimming…
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18 police officers successfully save drowning sex doll
Epic, epic headline off Geekologie. “18 police officers in China were recently called into action when locals spotted a drowning woman some 150-feet off-shore in a local river. Except it wasn’t a real woman, it was just a sex doll. ” The crew worked frantically for nearly an hour to rescue the woman, according to…
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Irish ex-Olympic coach jailed for child abuse
Former Olympic swim coach Ger Doyle has been handed a six-and-a-half year jail term for 34 counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault against 5 children during the years from 1981 to 1993. Doyle showed no remorse and pleaded his innocence throughout accusing the victims of telling “a pack of lies.” Read…
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Curl-Burke founder Rick Curl under investigation for sex abuse in the 80s
USA Swimming has requested an emergency disciplinary hearing against prominent Washington area swimming coach Rick Curl for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a teen swimmer and then paying her and her parents to keep quiet as part of a settlement. Kelley Currin, whose maiden name was Kelley Davies, said Curl had sexual relations…
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Graphic video: Killer whale nearly drowns SeaWorld trainer
This video is from a near death incident as SeaWorld San Diego back in 2006, when the killer whale Kasatka attacked her trainer Ken Peters presumably because she heard a distress call from her calf in a backstage pool. Peters suffers a broken foot but remains eerily calm, finally managing to free himself, only to…
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Banksy’s view on the London Olympics
England-based graffiti artist (and political activist) Banksy‘s view on I guess the Starstreak missile system protection of Olympic athletes. There is an even harsher one here on his site, I guess on third-world outsourcing and stuff. Via Neatorama