Swimmer's Daily

  • Newport News mother tells 8News sister station WAVY that her young child developed a serious bacterial infection after swimming at a local beach.

  • A new study in the journal Current Biology shows that physical exercise after learning improves memory and memory traces, but only if the exercise is done in a specific time window and not immediately after learning.

    “It shows that we can improve memory consolidation by doing sports after learning,” said study corresponding author Dr. Guillén Fernández, from the Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands.

    In the study, Dr. Fernández and co-authors tested the effects of a single session of physical exercise after learning on memory consolidation and long-term memory.

    “Seventy-two participants were randomly assigned to one of three age- and gender-matched groups; all learned 90 picture-location associations over a period of approximately 40 min,” the scientists said.

    “In each group, half of the participants started at 9 a.m. and half at 12 p.m. to control for time-of-day effects.”

    “Following a baseline cued recall test, participants in the immediate exercise (IE) group performed a 35-min interval training on an ergometer at an intensity of up to 80% of their maximum heart rate.”

    “IE participants subsequently moved to a separate quiet environment for a three-hr delay period, where they watched nature documentaries, before returning to the exercise lab for a control session. This control session did not involve exercise but used the same context otherwise.”

    “For the delayed exercise (DE) group, the protocol was identical but with the order of the exercise and control session reversed; for the no exercise (NE) group, both sessions before and after the delay period were control sessions.”

    Participants returned to the lab 48 hr after initial encoding and performed a second recall test in the magnetic resonance (MR) scanner.

    The scientists found that those who exercised four hours after their learning session retained the information better two days later than those who exercised either immediately or not at all.

    Read sci-news.com

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  • Creatures as small as a bottle cap moving through the waters off New Jersey sent a swimmer to the hospital for two days and sparked warnings to beachgoers looking to celebrate the summer on the shore.

    https://youtu.be/n5hDGQIzcyg

  • Rami Anis braved the bombs of Aleppo, then was forced to leave his Syrian home for Turkey five years ago — all the while refusing to give up on an elusive dream of swimming in the Olympics.

    He trained at the prestigious Galatasaray sports club in Istanbul, putting in lap after lap after lap, month after month. But soon, frustration set in because he was a refugee. That short window when a good athlete can truly become elite was closing fast. And he knew it.

    “I could not swim for the club. I was just training without taking part. All the while, the war was lasting longer. And I was losing my best years as an athlete,” he said in an interview with the Associated Press.

    So last year, at age 24 already, he took a different dive into the water, and crossed on a rubber boat from Turkey into Greece — a stretch of Aegean Sea that has become the tomb of all too many refugees — before setting off a 2,000-mile (3,000 kilometers) trek through the Balkans and onwards to Germany and eventually Belgium.

    Now, as part of the first official refugee team at the Games, Anis will be going to Rio — having lost some of his edge and many illusions along the way. Still, he clings to one.

    “I wish from my heart that there will be no more refugees and we can go back and participate for our country,” Anis said.

    Read NBC Olympics

  • Members of the Stanford University women’s swim team are saying they were not surprised by Brock Turner’s arrest, according to a report.

    One swimmer was quoted as calling Turner “very, very odd” and claims he made crude comments to her teammates about their bodies, according to InTouch Magazine.

    “Brock’s arrest wasn’t surprising to anyone on the team,” one woman told the magazine.

    Turner, 20, was a member of the Stanford men’s team until his rape conviction earlier this month, when he was removed from the team. He has also been banned for life by USA Swimming.

    Meanwhile, the powerful letter written by Brock’s unidentified 23-year-old victim was read aloud in congress Wednesday.

    An hour passed as the 19 members of congress, Democrats and Republicans, took turns reading the entire 7,000 word plea.

    Turner got just six months after being convicted of sexual assault. He’s expected to be released three months early, on September 2. The sentence has led to outrage.

    See Inside Edition

  • Disney has announced they will be adding signs around their beaches and waterways to warn guests about alligators and they have closed all beaches on their Florida properties as they conduct a review of their protocols. A medical examiner has ruled the cause of death for 2-year-old Lane Graves as drowning and traumatic injuries due to the alligator attack at the Grand Floridian Resort lagoon in Orlando, Florida. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.

  • Rio de Janeiro’s governor declared a state of financial emergency Friday and requested federal funds to help fulfill obligations for public services during the Olympics that start Aug. 5.

    Emergency measures are needed to avoid “a total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management,” a decree in the state’s Official Gazette said.

    The state’s revenue, largely tied to the petroleum industry, slumped in the last two years as global oil prices collapsed.

    The announcement followed this week’s visit to Rio by Brazil’s Interim President Michel Temer, who said the federal government would ensure all obligations are met for a successful Games.

    Rio is expecting about 500,000 foreign visitors during the Olympics, which has coincided with Brazil’s worst recession since the 1930s and a political crisis that last month led to the suspension of President Dilma Rousseff.

    “The state’s financial emergency in no way delays the delivery of Olympic projects and the promises assumed by the city of Rio,” Mayor Eduardo Paes said on Twitter.

    Read euronews

  • Hotel Terme Millepini, a 100-room four-star hotel in Padua, Italy, is recognized for having the world’s deepest swimming pool, the Y-40, which put it in the Guinness World Records.

    The swimming pool is built over thermal sources bringing after cooling down a water at 32-34 degrees Celsius.

    Y-40, with its depth of 42mt, is officially awarded the “Deepest Swimming Pool for Diving” by the Guinness World Records.

    Designed by architect Emanuele Boaretto, Y-40 “The Deep Joy” pool first opened on 5 June 2014. It’s 40 metres (131 ft) deep, making it the deepest pool in the world and contains 4,300 cubic metres (1,136,000 US gal) of thermal water kept at a temperature of 32–34 °C (90–93 °F).

    Underwater caves, a suspended, transparent, underwater tunnel for guests to walk through are some of the striking features of the pool.

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