A Danish man took a small sample of seawater, and when he put it under his microscope, he found it was teeming with life.
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Pennsylvania cat dives in to summer with love of swimming
A cat in western Pennsylvania is bucking stereotypes with its love of swimming.
Tissy is an orange Maine Coon who regularly cools off in the family pool in Bradys Bend Township, about 55 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Sonny Herr tells the Tribune Review she rescued Tissy as a homeless kitten about five years ago from a parking lot near the county fair.
She says Tissy got curious about water when the kitty was about a year old and started to swim. Tissy’s favorite thing is to swim with Herr’s 9-year-old daughter Taylee.
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Doping: why would you risk it? | BBC Beyond Today Podcast
When swimmer Mack Horton refused to share a podium with Sun Yang, accusing him of being a drug cheat, what he didn’t know is that one of his own teammates had tested positive for a banned substance. On Friday Shayna Jack will attempt to clear her name as she faces a four year ban. The consequences for athletes are serious– stripped of medals, barred from competition and a reputation in tatters, it hardly seems worth the risk. Time and time again athletes get caught, but is the testing regime keeping up?
Listen to the BBC Beyond Today podcast with Adam Peaty and Craig Lord
Another angle on the same subject …
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In wake of drownings, are fewer affordable swim classes in the Lehigh Valley putting children at risk?
Giggling and shivering in the cold pool water, 3-year-old Noah Baxter wrapped his arms around swim teacher Lisa Weitzman-Alford’s neck as she swung him in a slow circle.
“Speedboat, speedboat, go so slow,†Weitzman-Alford sang, increasing speed while instructing Noah to hold his arms straight in front of him. “Speedboat, speedboat, go so fast!â€
Over the next 30 minutes, Noah and four other toddlers taking the “Learn to Swim†course recently at Allentown’s Mack Pool practiced floating on their backs, holding their breath and pulling themselves out of the pool ― all skills they’d need if they ever fell into water and there was no grown-up around to help.
“There really is no safe child in the water, just a more prepared child,” Weitzman-Alford said.
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Houston Public Works head gets dunked on swim lessons, splashes back at criticism
Wednesday’s event by the Bayou City Initiative was billed “Flood Resiliency and the State of City Infrastructure.†So, it was no surprise to see featured speaker Carol Haddock, head of Houston Public Works, get asked what the city department in charge of drainage and roads has done to prepare itself for the next storm.
Haddock started by saying the department had provided swimming lessons to its staff.
“I’m proud of that,†she said later.
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Open-water marathon swimmer, 13, fundraising for Alzheimer’s
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Is It Possible to Swim 200m Breaststroke in under 2 Minutes?
The series that examines the next step in a sport’s evolution asks if swimmers can ever swim 200m Breaststroke in under two minutes…
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Junya Koga’s doping ban reduced to 2 years
Japanese Junya Koga’s four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation has been reduced to two years after it was found that his supplements may have been contaminated, the Court Of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Friday.
Koga, a gold medallist in the world championships in 2009 (100 meters backstroke) and 2016 (50 meters backstroke), tested positive in March last year for ostarine and ligrandrol, which are on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list.
Koga was handed a four-year ban until March 2022 by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) before the 32-year-old filed an appeal in October last year at CAS, who amended FINA’s original decision.
“In June 2019, the parties informed the CAS that having agreed that contaminated supplements were the most likely source… of both the ostarine and ligrandrol found in Junya Koga’s samples, they had signed a settlement agreement,” CAS said in a statement.
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The entrance of the headquarters of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Woman jumps into Salem lake, rescues struggling swimmer
