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  • International Swimming Federation (FINA) President Julio Maglione believes the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission “exceeded their power” when compiling the explosive McLaren Report into Russian doping.

    The Uruguayan, now an honorary International Olympic Committee (IOC) member after exceeding the upper age limit last year, believes that the IOC themselves should have handled the matter.

    “Its [WADA] members exceeded their powers,” 80-year-old Maglione said, according to Sputnik.

    “Sooner or later this needs to be clarified.

    “WADA is an organisation with a function to control the doping abuse, approve the relevant rules and not to talk about the situation in a particular country.

    “It must be done by the head of the Olympic Games, that is by the International Olympic Committee.”

    Read Inside the Games

  • The Question: Is it possible to catch STDs from swimming in a pool or hot tub?

    No, not unless you’re having sex in the pool with someone who has an STD.

    According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an individual can only pass on an STD through direct person-to-person contact. Take syphilis, for example. The disease cannot be transmitted through casual contact with doorknobs, seats, eating utensils, or pools.

    Dr. Edward Brooks, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford Health Care, explains that there is no evidence that an individual can get an STD from casually swimming in a pool. Transmission of STDs through a hot tub or pool are only possible if two people are engaging in sexual activity while in the water. An intimate exchange of bodily fluids is necessary in order for those types of diseases to be passed along to someone else.

    Although you may have dodged that STD bullet, it’s important to remember that there are other diseases one can get from being in a pool.

    “The most common are diarrheal illnesses, transmitted by ingesting the organism accidentally while swimming in the pool,” Brooks said.

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  • Meet Caeleb Dressel, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Caeleb will be competing in the men’s 100m freestyle and the 4x100m men’s freestyle relay.

  • Courtesy of the Australian Dolphins Swim Team

  • Meet Cammile Adams, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Cammile will be competing in the women’s 200m butterfly.

  • Courtesy of the Australian Dolphins Swim Team

  • Meet Kelsi Worrell, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Kelsi will be competing in the women’s 100m butterfly.

  • Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev have never taken performance enhancing drugs. Nonetheless, they have been mentioned in the WADA report (World Anti-Doping Agency) and are now at risk of missing the next month’s Olympics in Rio, head coach of the Russian national swimming team, Sergei Kolmogorov told TASS on Monday.

    Earlier in the day, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) said that swimmers Morozov and Lobintsev along with Daria Ustinova had been mentioned in the WADA commission’s report, and so would not compete in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio.

    “We have never had any doping violations. Morozov is absolutely clean, Lobintsev tested positive for meldonium but its concentration was lower than the threshold level and thus, no decisions about his provisional ban were made,” Kolmogorov said.

    Read TASS

  • The Duxbury Harbormaster Department said Sunday morning that a shark may have been sighted off of Ocean Road North. WBZ-TV’s Paul Burton reports.