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  • With victory at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, Michael Phelps successfully defended his Men’s 200m Medley title at London 2012 as he went onto become the most decorated Olympian of all time.

  • While raising an athlete is a commitment, raising a member of Team USA is a full-time job. Watch as U.S. Olympic swimmer Caitlin Leverenz shares how she was built, not born to become a champion with the support of her mom.

  • There are some athletes who desperately wanted out of these Olympics.

    But there are many more – such as Charlotte Olympic swimmer Cammile Adams – who desperately wanted in. How desperately?

    “You could tell me I’m going to get Zika,” Adams told me, “and I’m going to go anyway.”

    The Zika virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is no joking matter. Zika infection during a pregnancy can cause a serious birth defect called microcephaly as well as other severe brain defects. Zika is a public health emergency in Brazil, where the Olympics officially begin Aug. 5.

    But Adams wasn’t joking. She is 24, getting married in October and hopes to have children sometime in the distant future. The native Texan rests smack in the middle of the “You Need To Worry About Zika” demographic.

    For Adams, though, Zika and all the rest of Brazil’s problems never made a dent in her will to compete in her second Olympics and win her first medal.

    “The U.S. Olympic Committee is going to take care of us,” said Adams, a bubbly optimist who has a twin sister and was elected by her teammates as one of the Olympic swim team’s captains last week. “I’m not really worried about it.”

    Read the Charlotte Observer

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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.

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  • 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.