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  • The second leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016, in Berlin, on August 30-31 – will be live streamed, free of charge on FINATv.

    The competition’s schedule unfolds as follows:

    Tuesday 30/08/2016 – Day 1
    Heats: 09:30, Finals: 17:00    		 Wednesday 31/08/2016 – Day 2
    Heats: 09:30, Finals: 17:00
    • 100m Freestyle Men
    • 200m Freestyle Women
    • 50m Breaststroke Men
    • 100m Breaststroke Women
    • 100m Butterfly Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 100m Backstroke Men
    • 50m Backstroke Women
    • 200m Butterfly Men
    • 200m IM Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 400m Freestyle Men
    • 50m Freestyle Women
    • 200m Breaststroke Men
    • 100m IM Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 200m Backstroke Women
    • 50 m Butterfly Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 4 x 50 m Medley Mixed**
    • 800m Freestyle Women*
    • 400m IM Men*
    Award Ceremonies    		 • 100m Freestyle Women
    • 200m Freestyle Men
    • 50m Breaststroke Women
    • 100m Breaststroke Men
    • 100m Butterfly Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 100m Backstroke Women
    • 50m Backstroke Men
    • 200m Butterfly Women
    • 200m IM Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 400m Freestyle Women
    • 50m Freestyle Men
    • 200m Breaststroke Women
    • 100m IM Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 200m Backstroke Men
    • 50 m Butterfly Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 4 x 50 m Freestyle Mixed**
    • 1500m Freestyle Men*
    • 400m IM Women*
    Award Ceremonies

    On the territories listed below, the competition will be broadcast via TV signal according to established contracts with the right holders. Therefore Live streaming might be restricted or not available in those territories:

    • Algeria
    • Angola
    • Anguilla
    • Antigua/Barbuda
    • Aruba
    • Australia
    • Bahamas
    • Barbados
    • Belarus
    • Benin
    • Bermuda
    • Botswana
    • Brazil
    • Brit.Virgin Is.
    • Brunei Daruss.
    • Burkina Faso
    • Burundi
    • Cameroon
    • Canada
    • Cape Verde
    • CAR
    • Cayman Islands
    • Chad
    • China
    • Comoros
    • Cote d’Ivoire
    • Cuba
    • Cyprus
    • Czech Republic
    • Dem. Rep. Congo
    • Djibouti
    • Dominica
    • Egypt
    • Equatorial Guin
    • Eritrea
    • Ethiopia
    • France
    • Frenc.Polynesia
    • French
    • Guayana
    • Gabon
    • Gambia
    • Ghana
    • Grenada
    • Guadeloupe
    • Guinea
    • Guinea-Bissau
    • Hong Kong
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Israel
    • Italy
    • Jamaica
    • Jordan
    • Kenya
    • Kuwait
    • Lebanon
    • Lesotho
    • Liberia
    • Libya
    • Madagascar
    • Malawi
    • Malaysia
    • Mali
    • Martinique
    • Mauretania
    • Mauritius
    • Mayotte
    • Monaco
    • Mongolia
    • Morocco
    • Mozambique
    • Namibia
    • Netherlands
    • New Caledonia
    • Niger
    • Nigeria
    • Oman
    • Qatar
    • Rep.of Congo
    • Reunion
    • Rwanda
    • S.Tome,Principe
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Senegal
    • Serbia
    • Seychelles
    • Sierra Leone
    • Somalia
    • South Africa
    • St Kitts&Nevis
    • St. Lucia
    • St. Vincent
    • St.Pier,Miquel.
    • Sudan
    • Swaziland
    • Syria
    • Taiwan
    • Tanzania
    • Thailand
    • Togo
    • Trinidad,Tobago
    • Tunisia
    • Uganda
    • USA
    • Utd.Arab Emir.
    • Wallis,Futuna
    • Yemen
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe

  • Kenya has disbanded its National Olympics Committee (NOC-K) because of the poor handling of the east African country’s team during the Rio Olympics, sports minister Hassan Wario said on Thursday.

    Wario has set up a committee to investigate the misconduct and will report its findings by September 30. The Directorate of Criminal Investigation has also been asked to begin a probe.

    “There was alleged mismanagement of the facilitation of our athletes and the entire team Kenya ranging from accommodation and travel mishaps, mishandling of the accreditation of the list of participants to the provision of kits that never reached the athletes,” Wario told a news conference.

    “I do hereby disband the National Olympic Committee with immediate effect and transfer their responsibilities to Sports Kenya as the interim custodian.”

    Read Mail & Guardian Africa

  • Not 1,000. Not 50. Not even 10.

    Zero.

    “There have so far been no laboratory confirmed cases of Zika virus in spectators, athletes or anyone associated with the Olympics,” the World Health Organization said Thursday on its website.

    Now, no cases doesn’t mean no one caught Zika at the Summer Games. About 80 percent of people who get infected don’t know it. They don’t have any symptoms. And those who do get sick often have only mild symptoms. So the vast majority of cases go unreported.

    But so far, it’s looking like predictions from computer models were pretty much spot on: Zika wasn’t a big threat in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics.

    Read NPR

    Photo by frankieleon

  • A man has died while trying to swim the English Channel.

    Nick Thomas set off from Dover on Saturday morning and had been swimming for about 16 hours when he got into difficulties, the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation said.

    He was pulled unconscious from the water on Sunday before being taken to hospital, where he died.

    Read BBC

    Photo by Tobias von der Haar

  • At the FINA 2016 World Cup leg in Paris-Chartres today, Russian swimmer Vladimir Morozov broke the 100 meter individual world record, with a time of 50.60 seconds, breaking Markus Deibler’s 50.66 record from Doha in 2014.

    Read for instance Swimming World, and see the video below

  • He will start wearing Speedo’s then, 24/7

  • 25 times around Durbans north beach pier. 7.6 km and what is known as the world’s toughest surf swim race .

    https://youtu.be/3m9ccUHLHZA

  • Toronto’s golden girl, Penny Oleksiak is with her teammates from Canada’s Olympic relay team.

  • The Marshall Islands had two swimmers representing them at Rio 2016, Colleen Furgeson and Giordan Harris. They gave us some of their time to tell us all about swimming on the islands and how they got involved in the sport.