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  • Italy opens with an important win over Greece

    The Italian team opened its campaign in Budapest with a fine win over Greece, the world champions were really convincing in the second half. The title-holder Serbians had some struggles in the third period against Russia but bounced back in time and won with ease at the end. Two games saw enormous battles since here the third places in the respective groups and the berth in the top 12 (and possibly in the Olympic qualification tournament) were at stake. Surprisingly, Georgia beat Rio 2016 participant France and the Netherlands came back from two goals down to win against Romania.

    11 SRB PRLAINOVIC Andrija Serbia Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Serbia (white caps) Vs. Russia (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    3 SRB DEDOVIC Nikola Serbia, 7 RUS MERKULOV Daniil Russia Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Serbia (white caps) Vs. Russia (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    Team GEO Georgia Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena FRA – France (white caps) Vs. GEO – Georgia (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    Team NED – Netherlands Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena ROU – Romania (white caps) Vs. NED – Netherlands (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    7 DELGADO BACHES Adria ESP Spain Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena MLT – Malta (white caps) Vs. ESP – Spain (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    3 GRANADOS ORTEGA Alv ESP Spain Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena MLT – Malta (white caps) Vs. ESP – Spain (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    1 GRIXTI Nicholas-Kane GK ESP Spain Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena MLT – Malta (white caps) Vs. ESP – Spain (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    9 FRA MARZOUKI Mehdi France Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena France (white caps) Vs. Georgia (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    3 HUN MANHERCZ Krisztian Peter Hungary Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Turkey (white caps) Vs. Hungary (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    8 HUN JANSIK Szilard Hungary, 6 TUR GURDENLI Emre Turkey Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Turkey (white caps) Vs. Hungary (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    1 WAGENAAR Eelco Netherlands Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena ROMANIA (white caps) Vs. NETHERLANDS (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    12 LUCAS Thomas Netherlands celebrate Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena ROMANIA (white caps) Vs. NETHERLANDS (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    9 MILOS Lovre Croatia Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena CROATIA (white caps) Vs. GERMANY (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    3 FATOVIC Loren Croatia Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena CROATIA (white caps) Vs. GERMANY (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    3 SKOUMPAKIS Dimitrios Greece, 11 AICARDI Matteo Italy Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena ITALY (white caps) Vs. GREECE (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    7 RENZUTO IODICE Vincenzo Italy, 12 VLACHOPOULOS Angelos Greece Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena ITALY (white caps) Vs. GREECE (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    4 ITA FIGLIOLI Pietro Italy Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Italy (white caps) Vs. Greece (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    Supporter MNE Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Slovakia (white caps) Vs. Montenegro (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    9 MNE IVOVIC Aleksandar Montenegro Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Slovakia (white caps) Vs. Montenegro (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    8 MNE DURDIC Bogdan Montenegro, 4 SVK FURMAN Adam Slovakia Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Slovakia (white caps) Vs. Montenegro (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    4 SVK FURMAN Adam Slovakia, 3 MNE RADOVIC Duro Montenegro Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Slovakia (white caps) Vs. Montenegro (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    12 SRB MITROVIC Stefan Serbia Budapest 14/01/2020 Duna Arena Serbia (white caps) Vs. Russia (blue caps) Men XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto

    Men’s preliminaries, Round 1
    Group A: Slovakia v Montenegro 4-15, Germany v Croatia 9-17
    Group B: Serbia v Russia 13-9, Romania v Netherlands 8-9
    Group C: Turkey v Hungary 5-19, Malta v Spain 7-23
    Group D: Italy v Greece 10-6, France v Georgia 7-9

    Greece’s miserable run against Italy at the Europeans didn’t come to an end in Budapest either. They have never beaten their Mediterranean rival (Italy won 10 out of 11 games, one ended in a tie) – and their hopes to halt this terrible streak lived only till halftime. Then it stood 4-4 but Italy came back strong for the third, shut out the Greeks for 6:54 minutes, scored three connecting goals and that did the damage. They won the second half 6-2, drowned the Greek offense – the number of shots (34-21) and those on target (23-12) tells the story.

    The other game in this group offered even more the tensions as Georgia pulled off a surprising win over France. It was a balanced match but the Georgians made most of their chances in the second half while the French could score only twice in this phase after netting five in the first. With 6:47 to go it stood 7-7 but Georgia scored two in a span of 44 seconds and managed to kill all French attacks in the remaining 5:24 minutes.

    Earlier, a thrilling match kicked off the men’s event, which saw the Netherlands staging a big comeback against Romania to earn a crucial win. The Dutch led at halftime 4-5 but Romania enjoyed a great spell in the third, netted four goals to go 8-6 up. But they were unable to score more in the last period (their drought lasted 9:51 minutes indeed) while the Dutch started rolling and with a 0-3 rush, they turned the game and bagged three points and set themselves to reach the top 12.

    In the other game of Group B the Serbs seemed to sit comfortable in the driving seat as they led 7-4 at halftime only to see the Russians netting three connecting goals in a span of 1:55 minutes early in the third for 7-7. However, the title-holders responded well, hit back with a double in 66 seconds and did the same after 9-8 in the fourth to secure their win at the end.

    As expected, in Group A and D the favorites enjoyed easy matches while they geared up the engines. Both Montenegro and Croatia claimed surprisingly easy wins, even though after the first period nothing promised an easy cruise either of them. The two greats were 1-2 down after eight minutes against Slovakia and Germany respectively, then the Montenegrins staged a 6-0 rush and won the second half 8-2 while the Croats won the middle two periods 12-3.

    Spain also had a slow start against Malta (4-3), then speeded up and scored 19 more goals. Hungary did the same, spent the opening quarter with calming down, and that was quite visible on the scoreboard (4-4). But once they found the necessary level in concentration, Turkey had to face the inevitable, which came in a form of a 15-1 blast, much to the joy of the home crowd.

    For more details, detailed statistics, play-by-play descriptions visit:
    http://wp2020budapest.microplustiming.com

    Press release from LEN, images courtesy of Deepbluemedia

  • A major new report shows that owing to climate change, the world’s oceans continued to get warmer last year, making them the hottest they’ve ever been, and they’re still heating up. An international team of experts has examined data compiled by a Chinese institute to work out changes in ocean temperatures over decades. Researchers say this global warming of our oceans is already having a major impact on marine life, and on the severity of storms, cyclones and hurricanes.

  • Attorneys representing the families of four victims killed when the Conception dive boat burned and sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island last September are putting the blame on the boat’s owner and its captain.

    The disaster took the life of 34 people. It is the deadliest maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years.

    “Their training was inappropriate and their policies and procedures were deficient,” attorney Robert Mongeluzzi, of the Philadelphia-based law firm Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky said at a news conference Monday.

    Read ABC7

  • An alligator bit a teenager visiting Florida’s everglades, according to officials who said she suffered injuries to her leg.

    The 18-year-old was swimming in water at the Everglades National Park—the largest subtropical wilderness in the U.S.—at around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, when the reptile bit her. She was on a wet hike with her college group which was being led by their professor, the Everglades National Park said on Twitter. The animal left her with two puncture wounds on her lower right leg.

    National Park Service Rangers and Miami Dade Fire and Rescue were called to the scene. The authorities told national park officials the teenager was calm following her ordeal, and was “not experiencing much pain.”

    Read Newsweek

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  • This Workout of the Week is a 2,500 yard workout completed with MySwimPro on the Apple Watch. In this video we’ll overview the workout’s strategy and walk you through a set-by-set analysis of all the data captured in this MySwimPro EVF workout!

  • A Stuart man assisted in the rescue of two survivors whose fishing vessel sank off the coast of Alaska. WPBF’s Shayne Wright has more on the story.

  • Ireland’s meteorological service Met Eireann warned of potential coastal flooding in Galway as high tides coincided with Storm Brendan, which had earlier swept across the west of Ireland.

    Tommy Roddy shared his footage of a swimmer in Galway’s Salthill. Roddy told the Irish Mirror that the man swims at the spot every day, though he was surprised to see him in the water during the storm.

    “The man is fine, he only went in for a dip,” he told the outlet. “Not too long after he got out another man got in and stayed in for a bit.”

    The Irish Coast Guard advised the public to stay away from exposed beaches, cliffs and piers during the storm. Credit: Tommy Roddy via Storyful

    https://youtu.be/E8-XEFdheuI

  • The epic first-ever swim around cape horn by the SA extreme swimming team

  • Spain smashes Italy

    In the first highlighted match of the tournament Spain didn’t leave any chance to Italy and earned a comfortable 16-10 win. Spain’s Roser Tarrago enjoyed a terrific match as she netted 7 goals. The other favourites added big wins again.

    8 ITA BIANCONI Roberta Italy Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Italy (white caps) Vs. Spain (blue caps) women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    5 ESP TARRAGO AYMERICH Roser Spain Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Italy (white caps) Vs. Spain (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    4 VAN DER SLOOT Cathari NED – Netherlands 2 VOSSEBERG Belen NED – Netherlands Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena GER – Germany (white caps) Vs. NED – Netherlands (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    5 WOLVES Iris NED – Netherlands Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena GER – Germany (white caps) Vs. NED – Netherlands (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    12 DAULE Audrey FRA France Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena ISR- Israel (white caps) Vs. FRA – France (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    3 KURUCOVA Janka SVK Slovakia 10 GYONGYOSSY Aniko HUN Hungary Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena SVK – Slovakia (white caps) Vs. HUN – Hungary (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    3 MATE Zsuzsanna HUN Hungary Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena SVK – Slovakia (white caps) Vs. HUN – Hungary (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    5 NED WOLVES Iris Netherlands, 4 NED VAN DER SLOOT Catharina Netherlands Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena GERMANY (white caps) Vs. NETHERLANDS (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    11 RUS IVANOVA Evgeniya Russia, 11 SRB MILICEVIC Ana Serbia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena RUSSIA (white caps) Vs. SERBIA (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    13 RUS KARNAUKH Anna Russia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena RUSSIA (white caps) Vs. SERBIA (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    12 RUS FEDOTOVA Anastasia Russia, 1 SRB LAZIC Vanja Serbia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena RUSSIA (white caps) Vs. SERBIA (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    BRUZZO Florian coach of France Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena ISRAEL (white caps) Vs. FRANCE (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    12 FRA DAULE Audrey France Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena ISRAEL (white caps) Vs. FRANCE (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    Official Ball KapSeven Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Croatia (white caps) Vs. Greece (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    11 GRE PLEVRITOU Eleftheria Greece, 5 CRO LORDAN Dina Croatia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Croatia (white caps) Vs. Greece (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto

    Women’s Round 2
    Group A: Croatia v Greece 3-18, Russia v Serbia 27-2, Slovakia v Hungary 2-20.
    Standings: 1. Russia 6, 2. Hungary 6, 3. Greece 6, 4. Croatia 0, 5. Serbia 0, 6. Slovakia 0
    Group B: Italy v Spain 10-16, Germany v Netherlands 3-23, Israel v France 6-10
    Standings: 1. Netherlands 6, 2. Spain 6, 3. Italy 3, 4. France 3, 5. Israel 0, 6. Germany 0

    Though a huge game was expected early in the evening between 2019 world silver medallist Spain and Rio runner-up Italy, it ended up in a bit of disappointment as the game offered no real excitement. It quickly turned into the same one-sided match as any other so far in the tournament: Spain rushed to a 2-5 lead in eight minutes and was already 4-9 up at halftime.

    Roser Tarrago was simply unstoppable in the first half, she netted 6 and finished the match with 7 goals. Spain was already 5-12 up in the third before the Italians managed to pull back two but the gap never dropped below 5 goals till the end. Besides poor defending, Italy’s miseries were mirrored by their shooting precision, only 13 attempts were on target out of 27.

    In the other games Russia set the daily scoring record once more, this time with 27 goals (against Serbia – the men’s match tomorrow is set to see a different outcome). The title-holder Dutch side almost repeated the same win against Germany (23-3) what they had delivered against Israel on the opening day (22-3). In fact, the big teams’ defences worked well today, Greece also conceded only 3 goals, and Hungary held Slovakia on 2.

    France earned an important and comfortable win against Israel and took the first important step to secure a quarter-final berth – they still need to overcome Germany in the next round on Wednesday.

    Today the first positive VAR-check occurred (goal was called and the call stood in the game between Italy and Spain), on the opening day a call had been overturned and the goal was revoked after the referees checked the replay.

    On Tuesday the men’s tournament kicks off at 10.00 – this time the evening clash between Italy and Greece promises something extra, at least that is expected, just like before the second round of the women’s tourney…

    For more details, detailed statistics, play-by-play descriptions visit:
    http://wp2020budapest.microplustiming.com

    Press release from LEN, images courtesy of Deepbluemedia