BBC anchor Simon McCoy became a social media sensation on Monday for a report on surfing dogs he delivered with all the enthusiasm of a hostage video.
“Just bear in mind, it is August,†he said as he began reading his script about the World Dog Surfing Championship in California.
The report that followed was punctuated by so many pauses and heavy sighs that McCoy appeared to be contemplating what, exactly, had gone wrong in his life to bring him to this moment.
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Agencies and officials in the City of Ithaca sent similar messages to the community after an incoming Cornell University student drowned near Ithaca Falls on Saturday – stay out of the water when visiting the beautiful gorges in the area.
Winston Perez-Ventura, 17, a native of the Dominican Republic who resided in the Bronx, entered Fall Creek with friends near Fall Creek Drive on Saturday afternoon and did not resurface after disappearing underwater. His body was eventually found by emergency responders about 5 hours later near Ithaca Falls.
Donations have poured in from all over the country through a GoFundMe page to help the family of Perez-Ventura, who drew national attention in December when ABC News featured his story. Perez-Ventura planned to study architecture at Cornell and came to the U.S. at age 9 from the Dominican Republic. He was the first student at his high school to be accepted to college.
While the community has come together by raising more than $24,000 in one day to assist his family (surpassing the $20,000 goal), Perez-Ventura’s death is a sad reminder of the power and danger of the gorges.
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Paris has always been generous to its summer dwellers. Fifteen years ago, it launched Paris-Plages, a beachlike setup on the Seine river to entertain Parisians who can’t get away during the summer months.
The riverbank expressway shuts down for a month to make room for chaise lounges, umbrellas, kids’ games, concerts, pop-up restaurants and cafés.
This season, after years of painstaking water cleanup and testing, the city is innovating again by offering a free swimming spot, in a canal.
On June 20th 2017, Avram Iancu, the Romanian librarian who established a national record in 2016 by swimming the English Channel without a neoprene suit, takes up a new challenge. His dream is to swim along the entire Danube. 2860 km, 60 days, 10 hours of swimming per day, no thermal protection.
Katie Ledecky wins gold and smashes the world record in the 400m freestyle on her way to a historic Rio Olympics.
All swimmers get asked a series of post race questions in the mixed zone. We show you how you are supposed to respond vs how you would like to respond to them!
The Australian Associated Press reports on the case of Sam Kanizay, a Melbourne 16-year-old who spent about a half-hour soaking his legs, sore from sports, at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton on Saturday.
He emerged with his legs dripping in blood.
“As soon as we wiped [his legs] down, they kept bleeding,†Sam’s father, Jarrod Kanizay, said. “They ate through Sam’s skin and made it bleed profusely.â€
And they left doctors stumped. But there have been theories aplenty, according to The New York Times and the Associated Press: Some were sure that sea lice, a group of crustaceans known as isopods, were responsible.
The head of the Dolphin Research Institute points the finger at another group of crustaceans called amphipods; another marine expert speculates it was jellyfish larvae.
As for Thomas Cribb, a parasite expert at the University of Queensland, “It’s not a parasite I’ve ever come across.â€
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Preconceptions about places we’ve never been are formed in a multitude of ways: what we read, watch or hear about it, and sometimes even the people who are from there – whether we like them or not. Occasionally, there are areas we have no idea about. For me, that was a section in the heart of England: the south Midlands. Then I went to swim there.
“What’s this area called?†I had asked Bryn Dymott, my swimming guide for the day. Bryn had met me off the train in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, and had rapidly transported us into … well, just where had he taken us?
“Swimmer’s paradise,†he said. “Or rather, river-swimmer’s paradise. We don’t have the sea.â€
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At this week’s U.S. Open, Ryan Lochte sits down exclusively with USA Swimming to talk about getting back into competition mode.
Ryan Lochte talks about his motivation to return to the pool as well as his appreciatiion for his fans.
