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  • Sarah Sjöström – The Perfect Race – Butterfly | (English subtitle)

    https://youtu.be/lpXox7IvByY

  • When the U.S. Rowing Team takes to the water at the Rio Olympics next month, their uniforms will be different from what they planned. They’ll wear anti-microbial suits to protect themselves from pollution. The lagoon where they’ll row is just one of the many waterways Brazil promised to clean up before the games, but it’s a promise the country has failed to keep. Ben Tracy reports from Rio.

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  • The Court of Arbitration for Sports ruled the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) extended ban constituted a double jeopardy following an 18-month suspension after testing positive for an anabolic steroid.

    South Korean swimming star Park Tae-hwan, who was barred from the Olympic Games for doping, will compete for the national team in Rio de Janeiro after the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) ruled in his favour.

    The multiple Olympic medallist had sought “an urgent ruling” from the Lausanne-based body against his doping ban by July 8 – the deadline for South Korea to select their Rio swimming team.

    “We will include Park Tae-hwan in the list of national athletes who will take part in the Rio Olympics”, Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) Secretary General Cho Young-ho was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.

    Park, 26, was slapped with an 18-month suspension after testing positive for an anabolic steroid in out-of-competition controls before the 2014 Asian Games.

    Read South China Morning Post

  • In the past, lack of access to swimming pools and public beaches meant that many black Americans were denied the opportunity to learn how to swim. Intergenerational fear of the water stops their descendants from learning even now.

    Summertime is here, which means that pool parties and beach days are bound to be had. However, while many of us may be sporting a two-piece on the sand, very few of us will be jumping off a diving board anytime soon. Why? Because, according to researchfrom the USA Swimming Foundation and the University of Memphis, 70 percent of African Americans do not know how to swim.

    So what’s to blame for this alarming statistic? Of course there is the obvious issue of chlorine and the effects it has on our hair; but the true origin of our underrepresentation in the water is attached to deeper historical and generational roots—historically, segregation; generationally, fear.

    As University of Montana professor Jeff Wiltse, author of Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, puts it, “It is because of discrimination and segregation that swimming never became a part of African-American recreational culture.”

    Put differently: Lack of access to swimming pools and public beaches meant that many black Americans were denied the opportunity to learn how to swim; and intergenerational fear of the water stops their descendants from learning now.

    Read The Root

    Photo by The Library of Virginia

  • South African Olympic swimming champion Chad le Clos, who beat Michael Phelps in one of the upsets of the 2012 London Games, announced Monday that both his parents are fighting cancer.

    Le Clos said in a statement that his father Bert, who himself became a global celebrity for his exuberant celebrations and animated interviews in London, has prostate cancer and underwent surgery last month.

    His mother Geraldine has breast cancer, had a double mastectomy, and is undergoing chemotherapy, Le Clos said.

    Le Clos’ mother had been in remission since 2010, but the cancer had returned, Le Clos said.

    “It has not been an easy time but I am training hard for Rio,” Le Clos said in his brief statement . “More than anything else I want them to win their battles. I also hope that they will be in Rio.”

    Le Clos asked for privacy for his family and said he would not be doing any interviews ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which open on Aug. 5.

    Read ABC News

  • At its meeting on Saturday in Budapest, the LEN Bureau backed unanimously the Hungarian bids for the 2020 European Championships in all disciplines. It means that Budapest will host the European Water Polo Championships in January, then the LEN European Aquatics Championships in May, and the open water event in June. Kiev (UKR) was awarded the 2017 European Diving Championships.

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  • Kolesnikov: more junior WRs in a busy day

    Russia rocketed to the top of the medal table with three more titles on the penultimate day of the European Junior Swimming Championships in Hodmezovasarhely (HUN). Kliment Kolesnikov cracked two World Junior Records in the semis and in the final of the 50m back respectively, his third here after he had also set one in the 100m.

    Team Poland POL 4X200 Freestyle Relay Men Final Gold Medal LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day03 08-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Egorova Polina RUS 100 Butterfly Women Final Gold Medal LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day04 09-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Gonzalez De Oliveira Hugo ESP 200 Backstroke Men Final Gold Medal LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day04 09-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Johansson Victor SWE 800 Freestyle Men Final Gold Medal LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day04 09-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Kameneva Mariia RUS 50 Freestyle Women Final Gold Medal LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day04 09-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Kesely Ajna HUN 200 Freestyle Women Final Gold Medal LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day04 09-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Kolesnikov Kliment RUS 50 Backstroke Men Final Gold Medal New Junior World Record LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day04 09-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team Italy ITA 4X100 Medley Mixed relay Final Gold Medal LEN 43rd Arena European Junior Swimming Championships Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Day04 09-07-2016 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

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