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Swim Dem Crew win British Ethnic Diversity Sports Award

Feb 9, 2016

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rokur

in Organization

Letâ€™s face it, swimming does have a reputation for being a sport that for whatever reason seems to attract more white people than people from ethnic minorities. Which is a great shame.

Youâ€™ve only got to go to a gala and most of the officials and most of the competitors are white even those galas in mixed urban areas such as North London where I live.

I think it is changing (slowly) but anything that can be done to encourage more people to participate in the sport from different ethnic backgrounds has to be a good thing.

Enter the community swimming group, Swim Dem Crew (pictured above), which has just been recognised at the annualÂ British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSA) for their outstanding work encouraging adults from all backgrounds to learn how to swim.

Read more on Goggleblog

https://youtu.be/oz4FsxVEJQk
Leopard enters Bengaluru school, swimming pool, injures six

Feb 8, 2016

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rokur

in Safety

A suburban school in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru had an unexpected visit from a male leopard on Sunday morning. Since it was a holiday, there were no children in the school, but the ten-hour-long effort to capture the animal left six people injured.

Read Mashable

https://youtu.be/qCc4TUy51T0
Perth Aquatic Super Series – Night 2

Feb 8, 2016

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rokur

in Competition

Courtesy of Australian Dolphins Swim Team
Perth Aquatic Super Series – Night 1

Feb 8, 2016

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rokur

in Competition

Courtesy of Australian Dolphins Swim Team
Olympic Medalist Lochte Training in Chula Vista for Rio Run

Feb 8, 2016

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rokur

in Training

As the six-month countdown to the start of the Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro hit calendars across the world, one of Team USAâ€™s biggest stars quietly wrapped up a training session in San Diego.

Swimmer Ryan Lochte spent the past three weeks living at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center while training at several high school pools across the county with his teammates on Swim Mac Elite based out of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Lochte, who turns 32 in August, aims to represent the U.S. in his fourth Olympics.

â€œI remember when it was my 1st Olympics and I was one of the youngest guys on our USA team, and now Iâ€™m the oldest guy on the USA team, so itâ€™s weirdâ€ said Lochte.

See NBC San Diego
Iraqi refugee ‘raped 10-year-old boy at Austrian swimming pool’

Feb 8, 2016

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rokur

in Safety

A 10-year-old boy has been rapedÂ at a public swimming pool in Vienna, according to local media reports.

Local newspaperÂ Kronen ZeitungÂ described the assailant as a 20-year-old Iraqi refugee, who was arrested at the scene of the incident in late December.

It was reported that the child was taken to hospital for treatment over “severe” injuries.

Austrian police did not initially release details of the rape, which took place on 22 December at the Theresienbad pool, in order to protect the victim, according toÂ Kronen Zeitung.

Read The Independent
Meet the champion free diver who hunts fish with spears and kills octopuses with her teeth

Feb 6, 2016

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rokur

in Freediving

A champion free-diver who hunts fish with a spear has described how she kills octopuses by biting their heads with her teeth.

Kimi Werner can hold her breath for a staggering 4 minutes and 45 seconds, allowing her to hunt animals beneath the waves with just a spear and a knife.

The 35-year-old bikini babe has even caught 160lb yellow fin tuna fish in her native Hawaii.

Kimi shares out her prizes and in return gets fresh food from other hunters.

See Mirror
BGSU Swimmer Has Olympic Dreams

Feb 5, 2016

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rokur

in Competition

Featuring Victoria Griffin
The Right Fit for Your Swimmerâ€™s Body | Project Upgrade

Feb 5, 2016

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rokur

in Equipment

With a superhero physique like Dylan’s you want to accentuate the positives-like your narrow waist and broad shoulders. So we put him in a standout pale gray suit and tailored the hell out of it.