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  • Almost 400 swimmers launched themslves in cold waters of Prague’s Moldau river for the Alfred Nikodem memorial race. Wednesday’s event was the 70th edition of the country’s oldest winter swimming competition. Competitors from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Argentina and Russia were cheered by dozens of spectators, as they plunged into waters of about 4 degrees Celcius (39.2 Fahrenheit.)

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  • Windy conditions forced restrictions on the annual New Year Alcatraz swim to San Francisco. Participants had to swaim inside the breakwater and cove at Aquatic Park. (1-1-19)

  • The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday said that Russian authorities had failed to provide access to laboratory doping data by WADA’s year-end deadline and that as a result it will consider sanctions against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency.

    RUSADA was stripped of its accreditation in 2015 after a WADA-commissioned report found evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics. But it was conditionally – and controversially – reinstated in September.

    Its failure to meet the deadline, however, raises the prospect of Russia being banned from a second consecutive Olympics and remaining shut out of international athletics.

    “I am bitterly disappointed that data extraction from the former Moscow Laboratory has not been completed by the date agreed by WADA’s (executive committee) in September 2018,” said WADA President Craig Reedie.

    Read Eurosport

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  • Eleven-year-old Advaik Nandikotkur only learned how to swim three and a half years ago, but his aquatic abilities have already turned out to be a real lifesaver.

    “Mom told me to jump in and I said he was probably too heavy, but I jumped in anyway,” said Advaik.

    Advaik was with his family at the indoor pool in their apartment building in Eagan Sunday night when his father noticed a man at the bottom of the pool. The man was visiting another tenant at the apartment building.

    Although there were several adults nearby, Advaik was the only one who knew how to swim, so he jumped in the water. He pulled the drowning visitor to the surface, even though the man outweighed him by 100 pounds.

    See Fox9

  • Reflecting on his 2018 season, Rossi says inspiration from Phelps – the most decorated Olympian of all-time with 28 medals – kept him on track during increased attention.

    “I’m not going to let the negative comments hurt my performance,” said Rossi.

    “One of the ideas I stole from Michael Phelps a while ago was that thing where any negative story written about him he would print and put in his closet and use it as motivation.

    “But equally I’m not going to start believing all the praise, either. That can hurt your performance too.”

    Read Autosport

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  • Rókur Í Jákupsstovu, President of The Faroe Islands Swimming Federation joins MySwimPro CEO, Fares Ksebati for this episode of The #AskASwimPro Show in Hangzhou, China at the 2018 FINA World Aquatic Convention.

  • Tens of thousands of Scottish children are benefitting from a national programme to help them become better and more confident swimmers, an independent report has found.

  • Scientists have found up to 10 times as many pathogens in the Hudson River’s near-shore soil than in its water, according to a new study by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

    Sewage discharge pipes spew fecal matter into the river estuary, which includes parts of Long Island Sound and New York harbor. Harmful micro-organisms that float in the water tend to disperse and dilute. But those that sink into the sediment have a chance to settle and thrive and, if they can feed off the river’s organic muck, even reproduce.

    “These fecal bacteria in the water, they typically last just a couple of days — but in the sediments, they can last for many months,” said biologist and study author Andrew Juhl. He said that if those sediments are stirred up, the pathogens within can be released into the water.

    See WNYC

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