Swimmer's Daily

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  • According to local prosecutors, Judge Aaron Persky has been taken off of a case involving a male nurse who sexually assaulted an anesthetized female patient. Judge Persky declined to send former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

    https://youtu.be/YnKBkLmOfqA

  • Jellyfish Lake is isolated from the ocean in Palau, an island nation in the South Pacific.

  • Anti-doping officials in Russia are being stopped from testing athletes and threatened by security services, says a World Anti-Doping Agency report.

    The report was published two days before athletics’ governing body rules on whether Russian competitors can take part in the Rio Olympics this summer.

    In November, Russia’s athletes were banned after a Wada report highlighted widespread failing in testing.

    The country’s athletics chiefs had pledged to make wholesale changes.

    What does the Wada report say?

    The latest Wada findings include:

    • 73 of 455 tests on athletes could not be collected
    • 736 tests were declined or cancelled
    • 23 missed tests, which the report described as a “significant amount”
    • 52 adverse findings

    The report includes examples of the lengths athletes from different sports allegedly went to both to avoid tests and fool doping control officers (DCOs).

    It says one athlete was seen running away from the mixed zone after an event, and another left the stadium during a race and could not be located.

    Wada also highlighted the case of an athlete who, it says, used a container inserted inside her “presumably containing clean urine”.

    When she tried to use the container it leaked onto the floor and not into the collection vessel. The athlete is alleged to have tried to bribe the DCO before providing a sample that subsequently returned an adverse finding.

    Read BBC

     

  • Police have warned of the dangers of open water swimming after a sixteen-year-old boy died after getting into difficulties under a 70-foot high waterfall.

    Curtis Atherton, from Hartlepool, got into difficulty in the pool below High Force in Teesdale, County Durham, at around 8pm yesterday.

    He was found in the water following a major search operation at 9.45pm but died at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough later.

    Read The Telegraph

    Photo by westy48

  • A juror who helped convict a former Stanford University student-athlete of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman complained to the judge about his “ridiculously lenient” six-month jail sentence, which the juror said made a mockery of the panel’s verdict, a newspaper reported Monday.

    The Palo Alto Weekly published a letter that the juror sent Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky over the weekend to convey his shock and disappointment over the sentence 20-year-old Brock Turner received

    “It seems to me that you really did not accept the jury’s findings,” he wrote to the judge. “We were unanimous in our finding of the defendant’s guilt and our verdicts were marginalized based on your own personal opinion.”

    Read Chicago Tribune

    https://youtu.be/unopfkwAQ00

    https://youtu.be/ixdRCPRJlOU

  • After searching through the night, rescue workers have not yet found a 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was dragged away by an alligator at a lake at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa on Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday morning.

    “This is still a search-and-rescue operation,” Jeff Williamson, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, said at a news conference. “We are hoping for the best. Sometimes you get the worst, but we’re certainly hoping for the best.”

    See New York Times

  • On Tuesday, a nine year old boy braved the waves of San Francisco Bay to complete the two mile swim to Alcatraz and back. Californian James Savage has been swimming since he was 5. He and his coach worked together to train for the big swim. James said that about 30 minutes into the two hour swim, the waves were hitting him so hard in the face that he wanted to give up. But the paddlers who were keeping pace with him encouraged him to keep going. James is now the youngest person to swim to the former prison island, after a ten year old boy made that record last year.

    https://youtu.be/tRCmLQ4QBJE

  • SportsLeaks.com and DopingLeaks.com are one and the same website. It is a secure global platform which enables you to drop off information and files to investigative sports journalists working around the world. We have all received leaked data in the past from whistleblowers. That spawned the idea of creating a secure platform in order to provide better protection for our sources and to collect more data.

    See SportsLeaks.com