The driver of a Volkswagen Passat and his passenger were killed in Southampton Township late Tuesday afternoon when their car crashed head-on into a school bus carrying the Lenape High School girls’ varsity swim team to a meet, according to New Jersey State Police.
Eight of the 20 students on the bus were taken to Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly and treated for minor injuries, police said.
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Katinka Hosszu cracks WR in the heats, wins first gold in the evening
Katinka Hosszu (HUN) was fresh to set the first world record of the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships in the morning heats of the opening day. Later she added the title in the 400m IM and his team-mate Peter Bernek also earned a gold for Hungary. Radoslaw Kawecki (POL), Damir Dugonjic (SLO), Jenna Laukkanen (FIN) and the Russian men’s free relay were the other gold medallists on Day 1.
Katinka Hosszu made a flying start at the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships bettering the world record in the 400m IM right in the heats (4:19.46). She was a bit shy of her morning time in the evening (4:19.75), due to a couple of weaker turns, however, her first win was never in danger, gaining seven seconds on the others behind her. Later she went on qualifying first for the final of the 100m back, to be held on Thursday.
Hungary enjoyed a great opening day as Peter Bernek came first in the 400m free, adding the European crown to his s/c world title from last year. German veteran Paul Biedermann produced his usual great finish but couldn’t catch up the Hungarian: half a second separated them (and six years in age…).
Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki did also a clean job, his brilliant turns secured him a rather safe win in the 200m back (1:48.33), while the hosts happily celebrated the first Israeli medal of the meet, courtesy of Yakov Toumarkin (1:49.84).
The dash breaststroke events brought a couple of unexpected results: Slovenia’s Damir Dugonjic (26.20) out-touched world champion Adam Peaty (GBR) by the tiniest margin possible (0.01sec), and the women’s title landed in the hands of Finland’s Jenna Laukkanen (29.71), ahead of Belgium’s Fanny Lecluyse (29.84).
Russia’s quartet ruled the field in the 4x50m free relay, each member clocked sub-20sec splits, the only relay capable of that so they were 0.95sec faster than the runners-up Italians. Though worth mentioning that 33 year-old Filippo Magnini earned his 33rd European medal, a huge feat indeed.
Press release from LEN, images courtesy of LEN Media / Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia
Done the famous Big Five of Africa — lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros?
What’s next?
Time to swap the khaki shorts and binoculars for diving suit and swimming goggles in pursuit of five other giants in Asia-Pacific.
Found in the oceans of Australia and islands further afield are some of world’s most iconic endangered marine species: the white shark, green turtle, the humpback whale,whale shark and the Australian sea lion.
As I discovered, swimming alongside them can be a life-altering experience, albeit one fraught with difficulties.
But it’s worth the effort.
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The majority of backyard swimming pools in New South Wales have been deemed ‘unsafe’, with Royal Life Saving NSW revealing 80 per cent of the state’s 350,000 registered pools would fail an initial compliance inspection.
According to figures extracted from local councils, Royal Life Saving NSW believes the safety regulations designed to prevent backyard drownings are being adhered to by a ‘deeply concerning’ minority of pool owners.
With 83 children drowning in backyard swimming pools across the state during the past 13 years, Royal Life Saving NSW operations manager Michael Ilinsky said it was “deeply concerning” how many pools were not compliant.
“In the last 10 years alone, at least 1,000 children have been admitted to hospital due to immersion in pools,” Ilinsky said.
“Seventy children suffered neurological damage as a result of immersion in a pool — that is horrific.”
Mr Ilinsky said three measures would go along way to preventing more deaths and injuries, starting with an evaluation of your pool.
“If a pool gate isn’t closing properly, please get it fixed. If your fence needs some kind of repair, take action,” he said.
Secondly, Royal Life Saving claimed the standard of supervision was underestimated in Australia and that an occasional glance was not enough.
Royal Life Saving also stressed the need for Australians to learn CPR skills.
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A new international trailer for Zoolander 2 wants you to know that swimsuit models are not, in fact, useless.
Though many of the clips from the new trailer are ones we’ve seen before (i.e., the controversial Benedict Cumberbatch scene that instigated a boycott petition), we also see more of Cruz’s swimsuit-model-turned-Interpol-agent.
Not only is she really, really, ridiculously good-looking, she’s also apparently an insanely good swimmer. She dives off a cliff into the ocean, ready to take Derek Zolander to Rome on her back.
“Who says swimsuit models are useless?!” she shouts.
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This morning at the LEN 2015 European Short Course championships in Netanya, Israel, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu broke the 400 meter individual medley world record, clocking 4:19.46 where Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s world record from the Doha 2014 World Short Course Championships was 4:19.86. See the result list here.
Katinka Hosszu said after the race:
“Ever since Mireia Belmonte broke my world record in Doha a year ago I wanted to regain it so badly. Well, I couldn’t wait with it until the afternoon… I felt the legs came together really well and since I wanted to get back the WR as soon as possible, I can say, I wasn’t surprised to make it in the morning. I don’t know if it could be better in the afternoon, however. I think I can be faster but don’t forget that the short-course season has started only a couple of weeks ago as we had the World Cups in 50m pool so the rhythm is not the same. If I have a couple of wrong turns in the afternoon, I can’t improve this time. But after all it’s not appropriate to approach the final this way: there you must race, go for the gold medal, time is secondary.â€
LEN announced today that the LEN TV Channel will be broadcasting live here on DailyMotion, from all heats and finals at the Netanya 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships.
European Short Course Swimming Championships… by lentv
They also announced that there will be live timing, results and quotes, with live TV, photo gallery, past results and flash quotes, whereof some material might appear sooner on LEN’s Facebook-page
The competition schedule can be seen here on the championships website isr.2015ec.org, where you can also find detailed time plan over finals.
Right, this blog is doing badly as usual, because of me being dead busy by the exact thing that I could blog about ! :-)
A few impressions from Netanya, Israel, where the 2015 European Short Course Championships begin this Wednesday.
Trans World Sport at home with Danish swimmer, Jeanette Ottesen. Will she be able to defeat her great rival, Sarah Sjostrom at the Rio Olympics?!
