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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

  • Everything you need to know about Olympic Marathon Swimming.

    A 10km race in open-water, this is another adventure sport. It entered the Olympic Games at Beijing 2008.

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  • The legal battle to compete in next month’s Olympics has begun as Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova was the first to appeal her exclusion from the Rio Games by swimming body FINA, acting on criteria set out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

    The IOC declined to impose a blanket ban on Russian competitors over state-run doping, a decision which was met with fierce criticism elsewhere with Olympic chiefs branded “spineless”.

    In one of the most momentous moves in its long, chequered history, the IOC said it was up to each international sports federation to decide if Russians could take part in Rio.

    Swimming governing body FINA announced a ban on seven Russian swimmers, making it the first international federation to impose sanctions in light of the IOC decision.

    Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev, both 4x100m freestyle bronze-medal winners with the Russian team at the 2012 Olympics, and Efimova, another 2012 Olympic bronze medallist, were among the seven banned.

    Efimova, 24, a four-time world breaststroke champion, whose provisional ban for testing positive for meldonium was overturned by FINA in May, will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), her agent Andrei Mitkov told R-Sport.

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  • Simone Manuel is heading in to her first Olympics next month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and based on her nickname, it was her destiny.

    Before the 19-year-old was a Stanford University student preparing for her first Olympics, she was on a club swim team, where one of the parents of a fellow swimmer nicknamed her “Swimone”.

    “I think one time she was saying like, ‘Simone swims…’, ‘Swim, Simone.’ Then when she said it, like, it all came together and she was like, ’Swimone!’ she tells Us Weekly of the fateful naming. “So after that a lot of people have called me Swimone!”

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