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  • Nine-year-old child electrocuted to death in swimming pool

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Safety

    The death of a nine-year-old girl in a Sacramento swimming pool is being blamed on a malfunctioning light.

    https://youtu.be/nmcrhZExNR4

     

  • Tears of joy after South Korea score first water polo goal at world championships

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Water Polo

    After a humbling 64-0 defeat at the hands of Hungary, South Korea were determined to take something positive out of their meeting with Russia. The hosts got their reward with their first goal at the world championships… but they still lost 30-1.

  • Michael Phelps shares his experience with mental health | Mic Dispatch

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Health

    Michael Phelps is one of the most decorated professional athletes in history. But for years, the Olympic swimmer secretly struggled with mental health and substance abuse issues.

  • Anna and the sandfall in Dean’s Blue Hole

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Freediving

    Anna Von Boetticher is a German freediver and author. During a freediving competition in Dean’s Blue Hole – one of the world’s deepest – she played with the sand falling down from the beach into the hole.

  • Father accused of throwing 5-year-old into Atlantic Ocean, yelling at him to swim

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Crime, Safety, WTF

    A terrifying swimming lesson led to child abuse charges against a father in Florida. Katie Johnston reports.

     

  • Swim instructor, 20, accused of molesting girls during lessons in southwest Miami-Dade

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Safety

    A swim instructor was arrested Tuesday after confessing to molesting two 9-year-old girls during swim classes in southwest Miami-Dade, authorities said.

  • Relay Exchanges & Race Pace 50s | Michael Andrew Vlogs

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Public day at World Champ training camp! We worked on a few relay starts as well as a few 50s at 100 pace Breastroke for my final bits of prep before Worlds.

  • This technology will change how we workout! | Calvyn Justus Vlogs

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Competition, Technology

  • Diving Women – 10m Platform | Top Moments | FINA World Championships 2019 – Gwangju

    Jul 18, 2019

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    rokur
    in Diving

    Perfect marks were shown for the first time in diving at the 18th FINA World Championships as Chinese rookie Chen Yuxi won the women’s 10m platform in Gwangju.

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