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  • How sexist is the US Senate? So far, only 44 women have ever served as Senators, meaning, according to this Politico article examining the gender imbalance in the upper house, the male Senators think they have the entire place to themselves — including the Senate pool, where they apparently swim with each other while naked.

    This mind-searing anecdote comes courtesy of Sen. Kay Hagan (R-NC), who discovered this fact as a freshman Senator in 2008. According to the story, she was told that the Senate swimming pool was males-only, “because some of the male senators liked to swim naked.”

    A spokeswoman for the Senate gym told a North Carolina paper at the time that the pool was open to everyone, but according to Politico, it seemed to be an informal rule that only exposed penises were allowed to bathe in the cool Senate waters:

    It took an intervention by Senator Chuck Schumer, head of the Rules Committee, to put a stop to the practice, but even then “it was a fight,” remembers pollster Celinda Lake, who heard about the incident when the pool revolt was the talk among Washington women.

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  • On 2 October 2009, when Rio de Janeiro was elected to host the Games, the great explosion of joy amongst Brazilians was felt by nature and from this energy the mascots were born.

  • In this month’s episode we bring you an update on the 2014 season of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. We’ll meet up with French swimmer Jeremy Stravius. And we follow the FINA NVC Diving World Series.

  • In this month’s episode we’ll meet up with Brazilian swim star Cesar Cielo Filho. We bring you an update from the FINA Water Polo World League and we head to Austin for the US Grand Prix.

  • In this month’s episode we meet up with Water Polo superstar Jennifer Pareja, we zoom in on British Water Polo, plus we get all the action from the USA Winter National Championships!

  • In this month’s episode we’ll zoom in on the FINA Synchronized Swimming World Trophy 2013 in Mexico. Being aware in the air; we get an insight into Cliff Diving but first let’s look back at the highlights from the FINA Swimming World Cup.

  • A National Geographic researcher is startled to see a Greenland shark where none has ever been seen before: off Russia’s Franz Josef Land. An underwater camera captured images of the shark, a species scientists know very little about.

  • Olympian Missy Franklin took time out of her 2014 holiday break from Cal to visit with some inspirational children at Seacrest Studios at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

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  • Anticipation isn’t keeping Jack Bauerle up all night.

    Instead, a shoulder on the mend has the legendary Georgia swim coach in constant search of a comfortable place to rest his head.

    “Sleeping in a recliner doesn’t work real well,” said Bauerle, who had surgery in December to correct “about three things” in his right shoulder.

    Wearing a bulky sling and showing no signs of sleep deprivation, Bauerle was his usual upbeat self while discussing the upcoming competitions with Texas prior to practice on Monday.

    For as much as he tried to deflect the significance — Bauerle kept circling back to the elite challenge the Longhorns present — this weekend’s competitions mean a great deal, for both Bauerle and the program he’s been in charge of for more than three decades.

    Bauerle will lead his squads Saturday for the first time since NCAA violations pushed him off the deck last spring.

    “A lot of people had a lot of different thoughts on what would happen,” senior Maddie Locus said of the wait for Bauerle’s return. “I honestly had no idea.”

    Now — Jack is back.

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