Rome intends to bid to host the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, following approval by mayor Virginia Raggi and the city council.
The announcement comes ten years after Rome hosted the World Swimming Championships in 2009, an event which was successful from a sporting point of view but which led to cases of corruption surrounding the expropriation of land as well as abandoned infrastructure.
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Over 50 professional swimmers from 15 countries battled it out in the water at the 45th Wuhan Yangtze River Crossing Festival. The race covered a distance of about 1,800 meters from Hanyangmen in Wuhan’s Wuchang District to Nan’anzui in the Hanyang District. Chinese swimmers won both the women’s and men’s individual championships. The event also attracted more than 2,500 amateurs who competed in a 35-team group race over 6,000 meters.
The victim was taken to hospital after he was injured near Shoalstone Pool in Brixham, Devon, yesterday morning. Seals can get defensive when swimmers get too close to their pups and this is thought to have been the case in this situation. The attack prompted immediate warnings for swimmers to keep clear of seals.
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Record-breaking Japanese free diver Sayuri Kinoshita died Monday following a fall from her apartment in Okinawa Prefecture last week, according to police and her family.
Sayuri Kinoshita, 30, was rushed to hospital early Thursday morning following an emergency call from a neighbor who found her unconscious in a parking lot below her apartment in Yomitan. She was placed on life support and pronounced dead four days later, according to the police and her elder sister Sanae.
The police believe there was no foul play based on investigations at the scene, but said they still do not know why she fell.
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According to police, two brothers ages 1 and 3 drown in their home swimming pool in Uniontown.
Walter James Winkler, age 48, formerly of El Paso County, Colorado, pled guilty this week to sexual abuse of a minor
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Swimming is banned at another New Jersey lake because a harmful algae, and state officials are warning to no even touch the water. CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock reports.
