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  • Russians, Russians everywhere! The “Russian Trio” of Kliment Kolesnikov, Evgeny Rylov, Vladimir Morozov collected a total of 20 medals at the FINA World Swimming Championships 2018 in Hangzhou.

  • The whole Cambridge family has been out of sight for the past week, thanks to a break in Prince George and Princess Charlotte‘s school schedules. Now, a reporter is giving royal watchers a taste of what they’ve been up to—and it’s about as cute as you’d imagine.

    This past week, Kate Middleton took George and Charlotte to a luxury spa in Norfolk—not far from the family’s country home, Anmer Hall—for some time at the pool. Per the Daily Mail, Kate organizing some swimming races between the two kids, letting them engage in a little friendly competition.

    “Kate was organizing little races for them and they did it around four or five times,” a source revealed to the Mail. “She said ‘ready, steady go’ and did a downward chopping action in the water to indicate the start of the race.”

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  • Ant Williams has swum 223 meters on a single breath. He has freedived to 100m and held his breath for 8 minutes.

    His next freediving challenge is sub-zero Arctic depths.

    The 46-year-old wants to break the world record for the deepest ice dive. The record, set in 2015, is 65m on a single breath.

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  • Impala Saracens full back Richard Sindindi Otieno has passed on after drowning in a swimming pool today morning. Sindindi is reported to have drowned while on a routine swimming exercise at the Impala Sports Club swimming pool. As a player, Sindindi was involved in both sevens and fifteens rugby and has played for impala Saracens since 2011 after he joined the club from Kisumu rugby football club.

  • A 47-year-old woman is in a critical but stable condition after a serious incident during the Rottnest Channel Swim at the weekend.

    The woman suffered a “serious health incident” while participating in the annual event on Saturday morning.

    According to Rottnest Channel Swim Association president Iain McCarrey, the woman received medical support while she was still in the water, near the finish line, before a rescue boat brought her to shore.

    The woman was briefly treated on land for medical complications before a helicopter airlifted her to Fiona Stanley Hospital, where she was put in an induced coma.

    She has remained in the coma since Saturday and is currently in a critical but stable condition.

    Read The West Australian

  • What’s worse than rain on your wedding day or on your parade? Rain during your outdoor athletic event at the Olympics.

    Japanese researchers are scrambling to test new technology that would allow them to detect sudden torrential downpours known as “guerrilla rainstorms” 30 minutes before they start. They hope to have the radars ready for the 2020 Olympics. Sudden rainstorms, which are common to Tokyo during the summer, have the potential to disrupt many of the outdoor sporting events. Early warning wouldn’t stop that, but it would give organizers a chance to cover up fields and get athletes out of the rain.

    In addition to torrential downpours, Tokyo organizers are also worried about scorching temperatures disrupting the Games, endangering the well-being of both athletes and spectators. Tokyo, like many other cities around the world, experienced record high temperatures last summer, and 96 people in Japan died of heatstroke.

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  • Insider’s A.C. Fowler heads to the Dead Sea in Israel. Is it worth the trip and a bucket list must, or is it a total travel nightmare? A.C. will rate it on how crowded it is, if the mud bath works, and how well you can float in the salty Dead Sea.