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  • It sounds like a scene from a monster movie.

    Children from a church group were playing in a creek in West Alexandria, Ohio, on Wednesday evening when one of their leaders spotted a 7-foot-long crocodile swimming nearby.

    There were 16 kids — all first- through sixth-graders — playing in Bantas Fork Creek, and adults were in the water and on a small bridge to keep an eye on them, according to Rick Turnbull, who helps teach the children.

    Another adult “saw something in the water, a shadowy object moving, and he yelled down to the person on that side of the bridge and shouted ‘get the kids out of the water,’ ” Turnbull said.

    Rich Denius was in the water with one of his sons and helped get the children to safety.

    See CNN

  • First, Tokyo Olympic fans will have to find scarce tickets and pay the price. Then there’s the quandary of landing a hotel room with rates that are being inflated due to unprecedented demand. And the summer heat and humidity will be off-putting for some.

    Then there’s one more hurdle: getting around, or even finding a tiny space to stand on Tokyo’s famously efficient but over-stressed rail system.

    Japanese professor Azuma Taguchi at Chuo University has researched Tokyo’s system for years and says it’s already running at double its capacity and the Olympic crunch could push it to the breaking point.

    “When peak capacity is twice or three times above normal, it’s possible some people could be killed,” Taguchi told The Associated Press.

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  • Two British triathletes were disqualified from an Olympics qualification race in Tokyo for crossing the finish line hand-in-hand.

    Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown passed over the line in a photo finish, holding each other’s hands and celebrating as they completed the World Triathlon Olympic Qualification Event in the host city of next year’s Olympic Games. Learmonth was then declared the winner.

    But despite being comfortably clear of their nearest competitors, the pair were disqualified for their show of solidarity.

    The International Triathlon Union’s competition rules state that “athletes who finish in a contrived tie situation, where no effort to separate their finish times has been made will be DSQ (disqualified).”

    Read CNN

  • New World Cup Record by Russia’s Vladimir Morozov in the Men’s 50m Freestyle! Beating his own record from last year in Kazan, the new bar was set at 21.27 on day one of leg 3 of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 in Singapore.

    In the women’s 200m butterfly on day 1 of the 3rd leg of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 in Singapore, Katinka Hosszu prevailed over countrywoman Zsuszanna Jakabos by .41 seconds. “It’s really good for me to have one gold already, on the first day,” said Hosszu, who will be competing in four more events. Singapore teenager Quah Jing Wen placed third with a personal best of 2:10.26.

    USA’s Andrew Wilson won in style in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke on day one of leg 3 of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 Singapore! With a time of 58.93 he was well ahead of Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi and Andrius Sidlauskas from Lituania.

    In the women’s 50m backstroke at leg 3 of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 in Singapore, Holly Barratt of Australia won with a time of 27.95 seconds, followed by Hong Kong’s Au Hoi Shun Stephanie and Emily Seebohm of Australia who were separated by .02 seconds to take second and third, respectively. Seebohm had won this event at the first series stop, in Tokyo.

  • There’s seven common workout mistakes that cause you to plateau in your speed and stop improving. Let’s look at what you can do to avoid them and to continue getting fitter and faster.

  • A crazy video from 2016 is making the rounds again today after photographers started sharing it on social media. The video, which was captured three years ago off the coast of Mexico, shows the crazy moment when a Great White shark accidentally breached a diving cage … while the diver/photographer was still inside.

    See PetaPixel

  • Swimming – Learn How to do the Dolphin Kick in the Water! // Today’s video is dedicated to demonstrating the dolphin kick with three specific skills.

  • Four Palm Beach County beaches are closed to swimming because of elevated levels of bacteria in the water. According to the Florida Department of Health, the following beaches have poor water quality, based on recent tests, bacteria on beaches, Palm Beach County beaches bacteria levels. No Swimming Advisory.