Mark Healey might be part fish. The pro big-wave surfer can hold his breath underwater for six minutes. He once swam with a great white shark, hanging onto its dorsal fin.
And recently, the freediver got up close and personal with overfished sharks off the coast of Japan so he could tag them for scientists.
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The 24-year-old bottle blonde behind Sweden’s bikini-clad ‘grope-watch’ vigilantes has been accused of spurring fear and racism at the pool where she launched her campaign, with the manager saying staff have received a deluge of hate mail since she began last month.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph has learnt that the co-founder of the group’s Stockholm spin-off last year received a suspended prison sentence for taking part in a neo-Nazi attack on anti-racist protesters, armed with a knife.
Siri Bernhardsson and friends, who refer to themselves as the “tafsvakten” or “grope-watchâ€, started patrolling the local swimming pool in Kalmar, southeast Sweden, last month in a bid to deter migrants from molesting female bathers.
But their campaign has sparked outrage among locals and the swimming pool’s management, who say the stunt is encouraging racism towards refugees.
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A serious medical ailment has almost certainly ended Roanne Ho’s dreams of competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
But the swimmer is firmly on the road to recovery, and the mighty scare may just be the catalyst that re-ignites the spark to win more medals for Singapore.
It has now been a month since the 23-year-old was discharged from hospital after surgery and she returned to the pool two Fridays ago.
But her doctor advised her against competing in this month’s Singapore National Age Group (SNAG) Championships – the final opportunity for local swimmers to meet the required times to make the cut for the Olympics in August.
There was speculation that she would retire from competitive swimming, but Ho ended all that talk when she said yesterday: “I’m quite disappointed (that the Olympic dream is over), but I believe everything happens for a reason.
“I think I am now targeting the 2017 SEA Games.
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Hungary’s swimming legend Katinka Hosszú is the most valuable sport star of the country, according to Forbes. The World and European Championships winner swimmer star, nicknamed “Iron Ladyâ€, will feature on the top of the list published in the magazine’s March edition. This is the 25th time Forbes makes such a list about Hungarians sport icons.
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TritonWear develops wearable technology that enables better coaching – which creates superior athletes. TritonWear has developed a small, non-invasive unit that connects to the back of a swimmers goggle strap to calculate 15 key performance metrics for each athlete and sends that data to a coaches tablet in real time for every athlete in the pool. Once the workout is over, that data is uploaded to the cloud and synced with each swimmers profile to allow for tracking and analytics as never before in the sport to ensure swimmers stay on track and meet all of their goals.
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The objective of this MOOC is to encourage a critical understanding of doping. To achieve this goal, this course will rely on a multidisciplinary approach that allow you to see how different disciplines approach a single object, in different perspectives and in often complementary ways. This approach will also allow us to appreciate the complexity of a subject like doping.
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Triple World Champion Adam Peaty has been honoured by worldwide sports writers with a nomination in the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award.
Peaty not only world three world titles through 2015 he also lowered the world records first at British Swimming Championships in London and then at the World Championships in Kazan.
He was then shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award before now being recognised at the Laureus Sports Awards.
Other swimming athletes to be nominated are Katie Ledecky (World Sportswoman of the Year Award), Michael Phelps (World Comeback of the Year) and Daniel Dias (World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award).
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What you’ll need is some running water, a digital camera, a speaker, and a tone generator app. By sending a bass tone through the speaker at a frequency that matches up with the frame rate of your camera (e.g. 24hz bass tone and your camera recording at 24fps), the water will look like it’s frozen in time as it travels through the air.
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