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  • Our favorite holiday gift ideas from SwimOutlet.com for the the swimmer on your list!

  • Joe Keery had a major part of his Stranger Things role cut from the series!

    The 25-year-old actor says that his character Steve was originally going to be a competitive swimmer during the first season – and he prepped for six weeks!

    “They were saying, ‘He’s going to be kinda like this jock character, and he’s like a swimmer,’” Joe said on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

    He added, “So, for the first, I don’t know, six weeks prior to shooting, I was training, doing all this swimming prep. I thought I was going to be in, like, a Speedo…And on the first day I showed up and they were like ‘Oh, no, we cut that!’”

    See Just Jared

  • Russia’s hopes of competing at the Winter Olympic Games in February were dealt a blow as the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said the country remained non-compliant with its code.

    Last year, an independent report commissioned by Wada found evidence of state-sponsored doping in the country.

    Wada told Russia earlier this month the “best solution” is to “work with them” following new intelligence.

    Kuwait, Equatorial Guinea and Mauritius were also found non-compliant.

    Russia’s anti-doping agency (Rusada) has been suspended since an initial Wada report in 2015, but the country’s authorities deny there was a state-backed programme.

    Rusada has pledged to follow international recommendations to get the suspension lifted, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) making the ultimate decision on the country’s participation in the Winter Games.

    The IOC has said it will make its decision at its next board meeting, which takes place from 5-7 December.

    The Games take place from 9-25 February in South Korea.

    Read BBC

    Photo by Risager

  • REAL insight into an Olympians diet. Gold Medalist Swimmer Cody Miller explains his diet. Vlogging everything he eats on a normal day of training.

  • Nothing is more embarrassing than a swim parent. They always want to prove that they are the best parent out of all the other parents in your swim team.

    From shouting at you poolside, telling your coach what they should do, to just being a plain old pain in the bum to well everyone!

    So join me Shaun from simply swim as I break down ‘5 cringe worthy swim parents.’

  • The U.N. General Assembly on Monday unanimously adopted an Olympics resolution that includes a gay-inclusive reference to discrimination.

    The “Olympic Truce Resolution” that calls for peace around the world around the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, specifically refers to the Olympic Charter’s nondiscrimination clause, which is known as Principle 6.

    Egypt and Russia in recent weeks sought to remove the Principle 6 reference from the resolution because it specifically includes sexual orientation, religion, gender and other factors. The U.S., France and Brazil blocked these efforts.

    “The Olympics is an event that should focus on what brings us together – friendly competition by the world’s best athletes – not what makes us different,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told the Washington Blade earlier this month in a statement. “No athlete should face discrimination of any kind when representing their country in the games.”

    The International Olympic Committee in late 2014 added sexual orientation to Principle 6 after Russia’s LGBT rights record — including a law banning the promotion of so-called gay propaganda to minors — overshadowed that year’s Winter Olympics that took place in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.

    Read the Washington Blade

    Photo by Mister-E

  • Celebrities, politicians and executives in Australia and around the world have expressed their delight at the country’s historic same-sex marriage vote.

    The result, announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, revealed that 7,817,247 people voted in favour of same-sex marriage and 4,873,987 voted against on a turnout of 79.5%. Film, TV and music stars rushed to social media to express their excitement on the historic decision.

    Australian singer-songwriter Sia tweeted almost instantly upon hearing the results.

    Olympian and marriage equality advocate Ian Thorpe was also proud to see that Australians have voted to legalise same-sex marriage. Thorpe spoke at Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park where more than 1,500 people eagerly awaited the live broadcast of the results.

    Read The Guardian

  • American swimming legend Michael Phelps won five gold medals at the Olympic Games in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro last summer, and he had a chance at winning a sixth in the 100-meter butterfly sprint. It’s an event that Phelps had dominated, winning gold at each of the three prior Olympics, but in the final individual race of his career Phelps famously finished in a three-way tie for second place. And in first place, standing atop the podium ahead of the sport’s elites? None other than Singapore’s Joseph Schooling.

    Just 21 years old at the time, Schooling not only took home gold but he also set an Olympic record, breaking the benchmark set by Phelps eight years earlier. Looking back, Schooling says he doesn’t even remember the race itself: “I kind of blacked out for a couple minutes there. You’re so in the zone that you can’t really remember what happens during the race,” says Schooling.

    “I just remember, after that race, all of the emotions,” he adds, “It was a roller-coaster ride.”

    See Forbes

  • Raw moments from my week: creating an ice bath challenge for recovery from a big week of training, shooting some Instagram photos in a creepy forest and international meetings

    https://youtu.be/lkv3GlE8kiA