Australian swimmer Shayna Jack has reportedly been officially notified she will be suspended from swimming for four-years for failing a doping test.
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Deadly heat a major concern for Tokyo Games
With Tokyo’s summer heat and unpredictable weather likely to prove a severe headache during the 2020 Olympics, sports bodies are using every resource at their disposal to prepare athletes and spectators for extreme conditions.
Several organizations have turned to a weather forecasting company to feed them firsthand meteorological data in a bid to understand what to expect during the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which will be held in July and August, Japan’s hottest months.
“The weather cannot be changed — there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it. What it comes down to is how well athletes prepare for it,†said Kazuo Asada, who runs the sports meteorology team at Weathernews Inc., based in Chiba Prefecture.
Read Japan Times
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This Glass-Bottom Swimming Pool Would Hang Off A Cliff
How would you like to take a dip in a glass-bottom swimming pool that juts off the side of a cliff?
https://youtu.be/cFMJGcrOmbo
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Expert says brain infection contracted by swimmer a one in a million case
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What is Ligandrol, the drug swimmer Shayna Jack had in her system?
Ligandrol, which is also known by the development codes LGD-4033 and VK5211 and the name Anabolicum, was initially developed by the company Ligand Pharmaceuticals in the United States. It was patented in 2009.
The results of the first human clinical trial were published in 2013, where taking Ligandrol was found to increase muscle mass without also putting on fat.
The drug rights have since been licensed to the company Viking Therapeutics. In 2018, it completed a clinical trial which examined Ligandrol for people aged over 65 who were recovering from a hip fracture. The results showed patients who took Ligandrol significantly increased their muscle mass and could walk further than patients not on the drug.
The drug has also been examined for other conditions, including as a possible treatment for cancer-related weight loss, enlarged prostates, for patients who have a diminished function of testes and ovaries, and as a potential cure for breast cancer.
Ligandrol is still considered an experimental drug, and as such, is not approved for sale by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
Read The Conversation
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Olympic Swimmer Nathan Adrian Beaulieu Garden Wedding Video
Nathan and Hallie tied the knot at Beaulieu Garden in Napa and this was quite the wedding!
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Swimmers react to “fecal contamination” announcement at Berkeley pool
As Laina Adler, who shared this video with Berkeleyside put it, these are words you never want to hear: “Pool closed for the day due to fecal contamination.” Adler caught the moments after the announcement was made over a megaphone at Strawberry Canyon pool around 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 28. Swimmers scrambled to get out of the water as fast as they could!
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Fantasy Lake water park: Rare brain-eating amoeba kills swimmer at Hope Mills water park
A man has died from a brain-eating amoeba contracted at a water park in Hope Mills. Health officials are working with Fantasy Lake Water Park on ways to protect swimmers in the future.
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Testing if Sharks Can Smell a Drop of Blood
What is likely happening is that the sharks can smell the blood but it’s just not in a quantity that is interesting to them especially since they don’t love human blood that much (btw, I spoke with a marine biologist and mammal blood is all the same from a chemical marker stand point so cow blood is a suitable substitute for human blood). If I did the experiment again, I would want to test human blood vs. fish blood.