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  • A Canadian boy was apparently bitten by a shark Wednesday morning while vacationing with his family in Fort Lauderdale.

  • South Korea is considering making its own arrangements to feed its athletes at next year’s Tokyo Olympics, citing concerns over the safety of food from Fukushima, media reports said.

    In addition, South Korean sports authorities have requested that international groups be permitted to monitor radiation levels during the 2020 Games.

    Food safety concerns in South Korea have grown since Fukushima city was chosen to host six softball games and one baseball game next summer. Fukushima prefecture will also be the location for the start of the domestic leg of the Olympic torch relay, beginning next March.

    Tokyo Olympics organisers said South Korea’s National Olympic Committee had sent a letter expressing concern at the possibility of produce grown in Fukushima prefecture being served to athletes in the Olympic village.

    “Nothing is more important than safety. We will seek consultations with the International Olympic Committee and others to secure our athletes’ safety and ensure that the Tokyo Olympics will be held in a safe environment,” the South Korean sports minister, Park Yang-woo, said this week, according to Yonhap news agency.

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  • The Greensboro Aquatic Center in its final lap of construction. Ground broke on the fourth swimming pool almost a year ago and now complex directors are preparing for the grand opening on Sept. 24.

  • A 27-year-old woman in Hawaii is alive after she was bitten twice by a shark on Tuesday while swimming in Kealakekua Bay, a historic state park on the western side of the Big Island.

    According to Hawaii Police, the woman — whose identity has not been released — was swimming in the waters of Kealakekua Bay’s Napoopoo Park Beach at approximately 8:00 a.m. local time when the shark attacked.

    She received flesh wound injuries to her lower back and right hip area, police said, and was transported in serious condition to the Kona Community Hospital. She was later reported to be in “good health” by authorities and is expected to be released.

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  • A couple was flying a small plane at 6pm last night when they lost power and crashed near Northern California’s Half Moon Bay. They skidded across water and amazingly escaped without injuries. They even managed to take some video of themselves while waiting for their rescue helicopter.

    Via Boing Boing

  • A 13-year-old boy is dead after drowning at the Folcroft Swim Club hours after it closed. Police say he was part of a small group of teens who were “pool hopping” in Delaware County before the tragic accident. […]

    They slipped the gated fence at the swim club and started playing on floats in the deep end.

    But the fun quickly turned to panic after the 13-year-old boy apparently tried to jump off the high diving board onto a float.

    “The subject who is the victim was going to jump off and use that as he came in but landed on the other witness and the float went away from everybody,” Bair said, “and then I guess it became a scramble.”

    Police say since the other three boys couldn’t swim and help their friend, they ran away.

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  • One man has died after his car crashed through a fence and plunged into a swimming pool in Plum Wednesday morning.

    The red Chevy Cobalt, driven by 49-year-old William Gibson, crashed into the in-ground swimming pool along Carrie Ann Road at Repp Road just after 7:30 a.m.

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  • Controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has broken his silence after the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s announcement that his doping case had been postponed.

    On Wednesday night, the triple Olympic gold medallist posted on the Weibo social media platform a picture taken of him at the world championships. Above the picture was a message: “Under the water I want to be faster and stronger; above the water I want to own the strongest heart”.

    Chinese media and fans interpreted it as Sun wanting to persevere in the pool and be resolute in the face of criticism as he waits for the court hearing, which is now unlikely to take place before the end of October. Sun’s lawyers earlier successfully requested that the hearing be an open process “in order to be fully transparent and to clear his name”.

    Read South China Morning Post

    Photo by jdlasica

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