Members of public are still trying to retrieve the body of a 24-year-old man who drowned in Kalundu dam.
Afith Shaffie drowned due to fatigue as he engaged in a swimming contest with two of his friends across the dam, which borders Kitui Township and Tungutu locations.
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Olympian swimmer Ryan Cochrane talks with his classes from his home pool in Victoria, BC. He has trained there for 17 years. This pool is where he set many of his goals in swimming, and worked to accomplish them. Ryan discusses the importance of goal setting, the skills needed to set goals, and why it is helpful to tell others about personal goals.
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A young Boy from Wallasey who is profoundly deaf and who represented Team GB at the World Deaf Swimming Championships is fighting for more recognition for deaf swimmers in this county. After competing Nathan Young, who is a member of Bebington Swimming Club, ranked eighth best deaf swimmer in the world. But he says the lack of funding for training makes it harder for him and others with the condition to do well in the sport.
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Relive Ian Thorpe’s victory in the Men’s 400m freestyle final from Sydney 2000 with the full race replay.
Watch the moment Ian Thorpe became an Olympic champion for the first time as he beats Massimiliano Rosolino and Klete Keller in the Men’s 400m freestyle at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
Swimming’s world governing body FINA has strongly criticized the organizers of next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro over what it says are substandard facilities and “disrespect” for aquatic events.
FINA, which oversees some of the Olympics’ most-watched events, attacked the organizers and Rio mayor Eduardo Paes on various grounds including slashing the seating capacity at the main pool, according to a FINA letter obtained by The Associated Press.
Athletes’ health and safety could be at risk over viruses in the area of sea used for open water swimming events and organizers’ decision to use an open-air venue for diving, water polo and synchronized swimming, FINA warns.
The letter, dated Monday and addressed by FINA president Julio Maglione to Paes and the organizing committee, was circulated among leading swimming figures.
It suggests relations are at breaking point.
“The recent decisions of Mr. Eduardo Paes … are seriously damaging the image and value of FINA and its disciplines,” the letter states. “This situation is in clear disrespect for the FINA requirements concerning aquatic venues, and will negatively affect the safety conditions and the level of performances of our athletes.”
The water has always been home for Ayrton Kasemets. It’s always been his safe place.
“The pool is somewhere where I escape to be with my friends, and to relax,” he tells me.
And maybe it’s been that place for him, because outside of the pool, the Oakland University sophomore swimmer felt like a fish out of water for too long.
Ayrton is gay, and for years he felt nervous to tell his father.
“It was just something that I would worry about constantly.”
See WXYZ
A fearless daredevil diver came face-to-face with a four metre long American crocodile in an extraordinary photo-shoot.
Italian thrill-seeker Roberta Mancino fulfilled a long-held dream by swimming with the reptiles in the Gulf of Mexico.
Travelling 30 miles from the coast to a lagoon in the middle of the Banco Chinchorro – home to roughly 700 of the reptiles – Mancino was keen to learn about their behaviour.
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