Recap of the dual meet vs. Illinois on October 19, 2019. This day also marks the 50th Anniversary of Michigan State Swimming & Diving.
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ISL’s dramatic debut in Dallas | Day 1 Highlights
The big names starred on the opening day of ISL action in Dallas
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The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
If they couldn’t recover the servers by the next morning, the entire IT backend of the organizing committee—responsible for everything from meals to hotel reservations to event ticketing—would remain offline as the actual games got underway. And a kind of technological fiasco that had never before struck the Olympics would unfold in one of the world’s most wired countries
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Clean Enough for a Swim?
Paris has prohibited swimming in the Seine since 1923, although the ban is enforced only haphazardly. Today, the river is heavily polluted and swimmers face health hazards from chemical waste and bacterial infections. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised the Seine will be clean enough to host open-water swimming events in the 2024 Olympics. Will the city of Paris be able to achieve this lofty goal?
This video is part of a series that accompanies Ms. Sciolino’s new book:
The Seine: River That Made Paris
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#Howwedoit Constructing an Olympic swimming pool | Sarens
Right here you’ll find how Sarens approached and executed the construction of an Olympic Swimming pool in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. Urban construction projects typically have different challenges to those on remote industrial sites, which tend to be less confined and therefore less limiting for the lifting team in terms of techniques that can be used and the size of equipment. For this project, we chose to deploy a Demag 2800.1 as the main crane with an 84m main boom and equipped with superlift. The crane’s 600T lifting capacity meant that we were able to use a lifting radius of up to 70m to mitigate the constrained space around the site.
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CGTN speaks to Women’s 400m Medley winner at Military World Games
French swimmer Fantine Lesaffre spoke to CGTN after she won the Women’s 400-meter Individual Medley at Wuhan Military World Games.
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‘I’m just going with the flow’: Celtics’ Tacko Fall takes swimming lessons in Boston
Celtics rookie Tacko Fall is hitting a Boston pool to learn how to swim — all 7 feet, 7 inches of him.
Fall, the team’s new center, spent some time at the Charlestown Boys and Girls Club Friday learning how to float with two teammates.
This is only the second time Fall has tried swimming, and he says he’s getting better.
“I just feel more comfortable, I’m not as scared this time,†Fall said. “I’m just going with the flow.â€
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Swimming pool technician finds gator doing laps in Georgia homeowner’s pool
A Georgia swimming pool technician got quite the surprise Friday after finding a gator swimming laps.
The technician said they were servicing a homeowner’s swimming pool in St. Simons Island when the gator was found.
The gator is said to be a repeat offender who visited the pool a few weeks ago but disappeared.
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Superintendent takes on a Special Olympic swimmer
According to Friendswood ISD Superintendent Thad Roher, he will try pretty much anything to get closer to the students in his district.
