Everybody wants to hang out at the house with the swimming pool.
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London Aquatics Centre to host 2019 World Para-swimming Championships
London is to host the 2019 World Para-swimming Championships.
The competition will take place at the London Aquatics Centre from 9-15 September after original hosts Malaysia were stripped of the right to host the event.
Around 600 swimmers from 60 nations are set to take part in the Championships, which is a qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) awarded the championships to London after failing to to receive necessary guarantees from the Malaysian government that Israeli para-swimmers could participate, free from discrimination, and safely.
It will be the second time that Great Britain has hosted the championships after Glasgow in 2015.
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A Meditative Aquatic Opera Featuring a Musician Gracefully Playing a Rectangular Cello Underwater
While he was artist-in-residence at Middlebury College in 2017, choreographer Gabriel Forestieri created “Breatheâ€, a highly meditative, graceful multi-disciplinary aquatic installation. The performance featured amongst a great many things, a musician playing an unusual but elegant rectangular cello as he floated upon and under the water. Composer Loren Kyoshi Dempster provided the haunting soundtrack.
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Video From A Camera Attached To A Great White’s Dorsal Fin As It Hunts
This is a video from a camera attached to a great white shark off the coast of South Africa as it hunts for seals. The camera, which was designed to eventually fall off the dorsal fin and float to the surface after several hours, captured a previously unknown behavior of great whites, which surprisingly wasn’t reading, nibbling on and whispering sweet nothings in a loved one’s ear, or going vegetarian. No, the footage revealed that the sharks will actively hunt for seals in kelp forests.
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Federica Pellegrini’s gold medals at FINA World Championships #epicmoment
Federica Pellegrini already collected five gold medals at FINA World Championships: 2 x Rome 2009, 2 x Shanghai 2001 and one in Budapest 2017. Will she add another one to her collection and Gwangju 2019?
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A Day In The Life of a World Champion – (Updated) | Michael Andrew Vlogs
Welcome to my “Typical Day at Home”…
Everything I do in a full day! In this vlog I show you what I eat in the morning and the supplements I take. We go to practice and train. Then take to the ocean for a fun surf session. Have some fun with the family and do a little bit of skating before ending the day with some housekeeping!
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Japan Olympics Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada resigns over comments
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepted the resignation of Olympics Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada on Wednesday.
“Minister Sakurada offered to resign as he made comments that hurt the feelings of those in the disaster-affected areas,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters.
In relation to Japan’s recovery from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown which left thousands of people dead, injured and homeless, Sakurada suggested support for a politician was more important than restoration. At a Tokyo party for Hinako Takahashi, a ruling party lawmaker, Sakurada had stated: “Takahashi is more important than restoration. Please extend your assistance.”
In February, Sakurada had expressed disappointment at swimmer Rikako Ikee’s diagnosis of leukemia, suggesting it would dampen enthusiasm for the Olympics: “I’m really disappointed,” and added, “I’m worried that the swell [for the Games]Â might go down a bit.”
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Where are the lifeguards? Applicants to work at some JoCo pools are dropping
Overland Park aquatics supervisor Renee Reis remembers when cities like hers had to turn down dozens of applicants for summer lifeguards.
It was the quintessential summer job — a way for teens and college students to earn cash, work experience and street cred in a position with both fun and responsibility.
Not so much anymore, said Reis and staffers from other cities who have watched applicants for such summer jobs dwindle.
“Our lifeguard positions have been getting harder and harder to fill over the years,†said Reis, who is responsible for hiring around 225 lifeguards to monitor Overland Park’s indoor and outdoor pools.
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