A man has been attacked by a shark during a morning surf near Wollongong.
Paramedics attended to the man, 59, just after 8am on Friday at Windang Beach.
The surfer paddled himself to shore where an off-duty life guard and others assisted him.
Three crews and the AeroMed team attended to the man, who had significant bites on his left foot.
The bite went through to the bone and the man sustained severe ligament damage, an ambulance spokeswoman said.
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The series of swim meets are part of the Olympic qualifying process, and will include both veteran swimmers and those new to the international stage.
Be sure to come out and watch the Virginia Tech Swimming and Diving Teams take on in-state rivals Virginia during our Breast Cancer Awareness Meet
Croatia reaches QF, Hungary and Spain draw in front of 5,000
Croatia was the first team to book its spot though they almost blew their win away against the Montenegrins who came back from 10-5 to 10-10 but the Croats netted the winner 72 seconds from time. Serbia and Italy are also on its way to the best eight, while the goal-difference will decide the first place between Hungary and Spain since the two sides played a thrilling 11-11 tie in front of a sell-out crowd of 5,000 people in the Duna Arena.
Men’s preliminaries, Round 2
Group A: Croatia v Montenegro 11-10, Germany v Slovakia 8-5
Standings: 1. Croatia 6, 2. Montenegro 3, 3. Germany 3, 4. Slovakia 0
Group B: Romania v Serbia 7-15, Russia v Netherlands 15-9
Standings: 1. Serbia 6, 2. Russia 3, 3. Netherlands 3, 4. Romania 0
Group C: Hungary v Spain 11-11, Malta v Turkey 10-13
Standings: 1. Spain 4, 2. Hungary 4, 3. Turkey 3, 4. Malta 0
Group D: France v Italy 7-10, Greece v Georgia 17-10
Standings: 1. Italy 6, 2. Greece 3, 3. Georgia 3, 4. France 0
The game of Hungary and Spain, in front of a sell-out crowd of 5,000 people, offered everything water polo is loved for: thrilling action, brilliant goals, great saves, tensions, twists and turns. Hungary got a better start and built a 4-2 lead in the first eight minutes. The Spaniards managed to tighten their defense in the second and halved their deficit while in a rare scene field-player Alberto Munarriz – as goalie Dani Lopez was sent out for not taking the requested position – saved a penalty!
The third quarter was simply brilliant, Hungary netted three action goals and at one point they led 8-6 and had the ball after a killed man-up but from wasted pass of the hosts’ goalie the Spanish set up Felipe Perrone who scored another great goal. What’s more, Francisco Fernandez managed to find the back of the net in the very last second for 8-8.
In the fourth Spain took the lead for the first time, and, enjoying some luck while collecting the rebound twice in man-ups, they went ahead twice more (Perrone netted his 4th). At 10-11 they even had a 6 on 5 to close down the game but a terrible pass killed their plans and later Gergo Zalanki finished a counter with 40 seconds remaining. The draw means that the total goal difference will decide the top position, a piece of bad news for Turkey and Malta as they will face the two giants seeking big wins against them in the third round.
The late-night show of Croatia and Montenegro offered a different kind of entertainment thanks to a breathtaking comeback from Montenegro. Though the world and European bronze medallist Croats needed 6:21 minutes to score their first goal, but once they had it they started rolling while the Montenegrins were unable to put away their man-ups, missed a penalty and found themselves 6-2 down shortly before the middle break.
The Croats maintained their lead with ease and sat comfortably in the driving seat at 10-5 with one quarter remaining. Perhaps too comfortable as with 4:19 to go the Montenegrins were already back to 8-10, then, in a span of 26 seconds they broke to even for 10-10 and there were still 2:32 minutes to play. They even had a possession to take the lead but the ball slipped out from the center-forward’s hand and at the other end Javier Garcia halted his team’s scoreless struggle of 8:45 minutes. He put away a man-up 72 seconds from time while Drasko Brugljan’s shot in a 6 on 5 was stopped by Marko Bijac at the other end and that sealed Croatia’s win, which sent them directly to the quarter-finals.
In the other games, the third qualifying spots have probably been decided in Group A and C. Although both the Germans, against Slovakia, and Turkey, against Malta, earned a 3-goal win respectively, the difference was much bigger during the games. The Germans took a 4-1 lead and kept their safe lead until the end. It was already 8-5 after three periods, the last one didn’t see any goal only two missed penalties from the Slovaks. At one stage the Turks led 8-1 before the Maltese started climbing back but they could never come really close. Tensions ran high anyway, the referees had to show the red card five times.
In Group B both favorite sides – Russia and Serbia – netted 15 goals while winning with ease against Romania and the Netherlands. Italy kept the game against France under control though the world champs laid back a bit in the fourth period and the French came closer than usual at 9-7 but the Italian win was never in danger. Greece bounced back from the opening day’s defeat against Italy with a fine win over Georgia.
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‘Three months ago I switched to a vegetarian diet. I feel it partly in the gym – I have become a lot stronger, it is just personal records all the time in the gym. I feel that I have more energy, I am sleeping sleep a lot better at night, and it feels like my mood is more stable. I am inspired by, among others, Lars Frolander and Therese Alshammar, who both made changes to their diet towards the end of their careers.’
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Australian swimmer Mack Horton refused to stand on the podium with alleged drug cheat Sun Yang of China
Michael Phelps was the star of the show when Under Armour Inc. launched its new marketing campaign on Tuesday.
Under Armour unveiled its “The only way is through” campaign with Phelps reading a letter about the grueling hours of training and practice he put in to become the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. He then became the first athlete to participate in Under Armour’s new podcast.
It’s fitting that Under Armour chose the iconic swimmer from Baltimore to be one of the main faces. Like Phelps, Under Armour experienced a rapid rise to national prominence. Also like Phelps, Under Armour has faced challenges.
Neanderthals could swim. Not only could they swim: They were diving possibly as much as 4 meters (13 feet) deep for live clams, in Italy at least, an international team of archaeologists reported in PLOS One on Wednesday.
Strangely, even though the Neanderthals on the Italian coast seemed to dote on mussels, they don’t seem to have been clamming for consumption. They were using the shells of a very specific species mainly, and perhaps solely, to make scraping tools, Paola Villa of the University of Colorado Boulder and colleagues report, based on reanalysis of findings made decades ago. […]
The assumption had been that the Neanderthals just picked up shells on the beach, as people do. And they did. But the supposition that Neanderthals just collected dead mollusks on the beach is “incomplete,†claim Villa and her colleagues. Most of their shell-tools seem to have been made using deceased gastropods washed ashore. But a fifth to a quarter of the specimens found at the cave sites of Moscerini and Cavallo seem to have been collected alive off the seafloor.
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Hear from the Blaine Bengals Swimming & Diving team. Interviews with first-year head coach, Erik Hunter, and captains Reese Wilson, Wyatt Brenny and Christopher Hess.
