Swimmer's Daily

  • A swimming coach in Goa has been booked for the rape of a National Junior gold medallist after a purported video of the incident went viral on social media.

    Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has also stepped in and promised stringent action against the accused after a Twitter user tagged him with screenshots from the video, demanding his intervention.

    Surajit Ganguly, who was employed by the Goa Swimming Association (GSA), was accused by the 15-year-old girl training under him of molestation, after he called her to the Mapusa centre in North Goa from West Bengal.

    The girl has alleged that during her six months stay in Goa, she was mentally and physically tortured by him. The matter came to light after her parents, who went to Goa with her, noticed that her performances were dipping and she was avoiding Ganguly.

    When pressed to reveal what happened, she broke down and narrated the ordeal to her parents. They immediately went back to Bengal and tried to file a police complaint.

    The girl took to social media after the police station in her hometown showed reluctance in lodging a complaint on the grounds that the incident happened in Goa.

    “My coach used to touch me and physically assaulted me. I have decided to reveal this because I want to save many other girls who may have gone through the same ordeal. Shockingly, when I went to the police station, they told me to lodge a complaint with the Goa police,” she said in a Facebook post.

    The GSA sacked the coach on Thursday. A case under IPC sections 376 (rape), 354 (molestation) and 506 (criminal intimidation), as well as under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and Goa Children’s Act was registered against Ganguly who is yet untraceable, said inspector Kapil Nayak of Mapusa police station in Goa.

    Read NEWS18, India, The Indian Express

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  • They sent us a water drone! Or mini-submarine with a camera, whatever you want to call it. The company Chasing sent us their latest version of their water drone, the Gladius mini. I have to say I am impressed. Disclaimer: We did not pay for the Drone, they agreed for us to do an honest review, also if you buy the Gladius Mini through our link in the description within 30 days of clicking it, we will get a small fee.

    The camera capabilities are outstanding. In some big ways, they are better than a GoPro. It has 4k video that you can adjust right on the screen. You can adjust the hue, contrast, sharpness and the bitrate. In 1080p meaning HD video, you can even control the frames per seconds. You can go up to 120 frames per second so you can really show every movement in slow motion. The two main things that the GoPro 7 camera is superior over the gladius mini camera is it stabilizes the video by itself via software and it has up to 240 frames per second. However, since the drone pretty much stabilizes itself there is no need for extra stabilization. Also, 120 frames per second is plenty if you want to slow things down and show the details.

    For its unique capabilities we will for sure use it in our next swimming camp to correct techniques and have amazing footage. If you are a coach or you are in a swim team and you think your team can benefit from having one of these, click on the link bellow. Or contact us with any of your water drone questions to skillsntalents@gmail.com

    I forgot to mention one thing… It is super fun to play with! I’ll see you later!

    Buy a Gladius Mini: https://www.chasing-innovation.com/gl…

  • The 27-year-old said on the #Adulting podcast, “I remember the day after the Olympics being, like, one of the hardest days of my life, because you set this goal and you get so obsessed with something where your entire life revolves around it and then, all of the sudden, it’s done.”

    She continued, “And I remember waking up the next morning, and, I always explain it like, I felt like I ran, like, straight into a brick wall at full speed.”

    Johnson East — who is expecting her first child with her football player husband Andrew East — said she “felt lost,” and “didn’t know how to eat. I didn’t know how to workout.”

    “I didn’t know how to function because I didn’t have this goal that was kind of driving my choices on a daily basis,” said the former athlete. “When all of your choices, all day, every day revolve around the same goal, you kind of pair your identity with it. So, I felt lost.”

    Read People

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  • The swimming hole at Turner Falls Park has closed about a month early after two more people drowned at the popular tourist spot 70 miles south of Oklahoma City.

    The swimming hole near Davis, which claims Oklahoma’s largest waterfall, closed for a few hours Monday, along with the Blue Hole diving board and slide. The park disputed reports about a drowning, saying the Monday closure was a precaution due to someone being reported missing in the area. It reopened Tuesday.

    Two international students who were at the Turner Falls swimming hole drowned Tuesday. Police told The Associated Press that one man was struggling in a pool near the falls when a friend jumped in to help and neither resurfaced. They weren’t wearing life jackets.

    Read Tulsa World

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  • More than half of the sex-related charges against former Mosman swimming coach Kyle Daniels have been dropped.

    Daniels, 20, was arrested in March and accused of touching two young girls.

    A further seven alleged victims came forward.

    All are under the age of 10 and have told police Daniels had touched them.

    The 20 year old had been charged with 48 offences, including rape, indecent assault and sexually touching a child.

    But the most recent charge sheet shows 33 charges out a total of 59 have now been withdrawn.

    He now faces a total of 26 charges.

    Read 7NEWS

  • Silver Olympic Medalist, Spiros Gianniotis and World Champion, Kelly Araouzou provide some useful tips for the swimming route of Santorini Experience.