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  • Four refugees staying in Souda, one of three camps on the island of Chios, attempted to swim to Turkey on Monday after giving up on the near-static asylum process. Get the full story: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/…

    Read for instance ekathimerini.com

  • Olympic medalist Cullen Jones educates parents and children on the importance of learning to swim. CNN’s Coy Wire reports.

  • Some internet users are shocked and stunned after video surfaced of a 6-month-old Florida baby struggling to swim as her mother watches on.

    The two-minute video, uploaded to Facebook by user Dov, shows a bubbly baby girl in a yellow dress being lured out into a pool.

    She plunges in after a bright, flowered sandal and her head goes under, but neither of the adults step in to help her. Instead, they watch as she struggles and ends up floating on her back.

    See New York Daily News

  • 1948 Olympian Penny Taylor reflects on her career as an athlete, coach, team leader and manager for USA Swimming.

  • A member of the Gator Nation could be headed to Rio for the Olympics this summer.

    https://youtu.be/5AuOCYhaKFY

  • Dutch distance swimmer Maarten van der Weijden shares his incredible story of beating cancer and winning Olympic gold in Beijing.

  • A hype video first shown at the LEN 2016 Elective Congress

    https://youtu.be/mqShW4Q49l4

  • Russia: Victory Day with two golds

    After four years, world-class action has returned to the London Aquatics Centre as a series of fine diving and synchro events kicked off the European Aquatics Championships on Monday. The Russians held a Victory Day parade here as well, capturing both gold medals on offer on 9 May.

    RUSSIA RUS Gold Medal KOLESNICHENKO, YESIPOVICH, SHULHINA, TARAKHOVIC, TALEIKO, VALASACH, NAVASIOLAVA, BICHUN, WARDAK, KHANDOSHKA Team Technical Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Synchronized Swimming Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    WARD-LEE Team GBR bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Team event final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    WARD-LEE Team GBR bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Team event final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team ITA bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Synchro Team technical final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team RUSSIA gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Synchro Team technical final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team RUS BAZHINA-MINIBAEV gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Team event final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team RUS BAZHINA-MINIBAEV gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Team event final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team UKRAINE silver medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Synchro Team technical final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team UKR PROKOPCHUK-GORSHKOVOZOV Silver medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Team event final Day 01 09-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

    “What a pleasure to stand here, in this wonderful London Aquatics Centre. The vivid memories of the Olympic Games four years ago are still with us, but here we are once again for another fantastic championships in the British capital!” LEN President Paolo Barelli began his speech with these words at the opening ceremony, after Chairman of British Swimming, Maurice Watkins, welcomed everyone at the third European Championships held in Great Britain, after 1938 and 1993.

    President Barelli, re-elected for another four years on the eve of the championships, also declared: “Here, in London, we will have even bigger media exposure and tremendous promotion for swimming, fair competition, healthy lifestyle. And last but not least, here, in London these European Championships will also inspire the young generations just as the Olympics did in 2012.”

    The ceremony was followed by the first final of the fortnight, the team technical event in synchro. As expected, world title-holders Russia clinched the gold with a convincing performance, ahead of their fiercest rivals, the Ukrainians. The Italians were also overjoyed after finishing third.

    In diving, as usual, the team event started the competitions. Again, it went down to a duel between the Russians and the Ukrainians. Despite a rare penalty deduction at Iuliia Prokopchuk’s second dive, the Ukrainians seemed to have a chance to finish atop but Russia’s Viktor Minibaev came up with the dive of the evening on the very last attempt. A perfect mark of 10 flashed on the scoreboard and the 102.60 pointer won the title for the Russians, who celebrated their nation’s treasured Victory Day in style in London. The home fans also had something to cheer as Georgia Ward and Matthew Lee earned the first medal, a bronze, for the hosts.

    For detailed results please visit LEN’s renewed website: www.len.eu

    Direct link: http://len.eu/?p=4378

    Images courtesy of Deepbluemedia