A swimmer from the UK Invictus Games team has spoken to Forces Network about the power of sport.
It comes with the start of this year’s competition less than three weeks away.
The last few training sessions are now taking place, with the Team UK swimmers meeting in Catterick for their final preparations.
One of the athletes, Emma Pack, told Cath Brazier that sport gave her a huge buzz: “I never thought sport would get me back into reality again [until I tried it].
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Brazilian investigators said on Tuesday that politicians and the head of the national Olympic committee arranged a $2 million bribe to bring the 2016 games to Rio de Janeiro, despite the city having the worst conditions to host the event.
Police in Rio raided the home of Brazil’s Olympics chief, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, after prosecutors accused him of conspiring with former state Governor Sergio Cabral, already convicted in a separate corruption case, to buy the games.
Nuzman’s lawyer, Sergio Mazzillo, said his client was innocent. Calls to Cabral’s attorney were not returned.
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Dogs are allowed to join Greenwood Park’s last swim of the season. The outdoor Leslieville pool allowed the fury friends to join the fun on its last day of operation on Sunday.
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We take the bikes, meet up with friends and dive into the Danube in Vienna.
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First responders from across the country came to Houston to help rescue people from rising floodwaters, including a coast guard team from Massachusetts involved in one of the most dramatic stories from the storm.
One rescue swimmer said he’ll never forget a woman giving him a Tupperware container.
He thought it was luggage and told her the chopper couldn’t carry it, but he couldn’t believe what happened next.
“She was like, ‘My baby’s in there!’ The top was snapped down, so I didn’t know what she was talking about. I said ‘What are you talking about?’ So I opened it and there was this 2-year-old holding an infant inside like not screaming or crying or anything, just big eyes looking at me like ‘What’s up, man?’ So that was like pretty incredible,” Brendan Kiley said.
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The National leader says he would swim in the river, one of the South Island’s largest. Ian Telfer went to check it out.
Nova Scotia may be known as Canada’s Ocean Playground, but the moniker hardly applies to Halifax harbour.
Almost 10 years after the city spent $333 million to clean up its massive, infamously polluted harbour, the two public beaches near its downtown remain strangely quiet — even on hot, sunny days.
Despite monitoring that shows the crystal-clear saltwater is fit to swim in, the city decided this year not to post lifeguards at the Black Rock and Dingle beaches, saying there were so few swimmers last year it didn’t make sense to hire rescuers.
“There hasn’t been an appetite for swimming,” city spokesperson Nick Ritcey says.
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Marine Officers work to protect swimmers and boaters on Labor Day.
