“For me the conflict was really basic, really human. I want to be accepted, I want to belong”.
Find out more about Mark’s story and how sport can contribute for a better world at www.olympic.org/idsdp
Two people have a brave dog, Nico, to thank for their rescue after rip currents swept them out about 100 yards off the shore at a Venice County beach in California.
Nico’s owners adopted him about six months ago and say he had no prior ocean experience before they got him.
Once the grateful, exhausted swimmers were back on the beach they asked Nico’s owner, Dan Clark, if he was a trained rescue dog.
Dan said, “This is the first I’ve ever seen him do anything like that.”
See WPTV
https://youtu.be/c2I6VrpcLrI
At the Norwegian Short Course Championships in Kristiansand last week, Henrik Christiansen took yet another huge step towards world class level, when he demolished 4 of his own Norwegian records over 4 days , in the longest events.
Read simma.nu/no, SwimmingWorld and see the videos attached below.
19 March 2015 – 800 free 7:38.58, was 7:43.26 from Stavanger 3 April 2014
20 March 2015 – 400 free 3:41.81, was 3:42.75 from Doha 5 December 2014
21 March 2015 – 1500 free 14:37.44, was 14:47.55 from Stavanger 5 April 2015
22 March 2015 – 400 IM 4:09.79, was 4:12.32 from Doha 4 December 2014
Featured photo courtesy of the Norwegian Swimming Federation
Kylie Palmer, Jake Packard, Leah Neale and Taylor McKeown discuss their memories of the Australian Dolphins Swim Team and what it takes to make it.
Finnish Freediver Johanna Nordblad set a new Guinness World Record for freediving 50m / 164ft horizontally under ice on 14th March 2015.
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Right, totally swimming irrelevant … but today we witnessed a total solar eclipse here in the Faroe Islands, which was an intense experience. Or as our tourist board likes to dub it, unbelievable
As if the official videos weren’t enough, Faroese band Hamferð managed to video a live performance including a spectacular view of the solar eclipse in the background. Watch it.
My wife’s cousin filmed this from just down the hill where we stood. He was lucky, while we only caught a tiny tiny glimpse of the solar eclipse itself, from up on the hill.
Here is one of the official videos from today
The Columbia Police Department has closed its investigation into sexual assault allegations made by deceased University of Missouri swimmer Sasha Menu Courey.
Menu Courey committed suicide in June 2011, after which ESPN discovered that she alleged to have been raped by Mizzou football players. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” first reported the allegation in January 2014 as part of a story on sexual assaults on college campuses. Menu Courey, 20 at the time of her death, had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Detectives were unable to identify a suspect after reviewing evidence and taking multiple statements during the last year. The case was reported to Columbia police on Jan. 27, 2014, nearly four years after the alleged assault in February 2010. There was no forensic evidence in the case and police could not locate any video evidence of the assault. Some of the statements gathered from witnesses interviewed by police, including at least three former Mizzou football players, was considered hearsay while other potential witnesses refused to cooperate with police.
“Although several people have speculation on the identity of a subject who may have sexually assaulted Sasha, there is no information available to clearly establish that this person actually committed the act,” read the 44-page report released by Columbia police on Wednesday.
Returning swimming champion Grant Hackett will stick to his plan of earning a spot in next year’s Olympics through the 200m freestyle.
The two-time Olympic 1500m champion made his first competitive appearance since the 2008 Beijing Games during a qualifying meet in Brisbane last weekend.
The 34-year-old swam the 200m, 400m and 100m freestyle events, winning the 400m in a time which would have qualified him for the final at last year’s national championships.
Despite that result, Hackett’s coach Denis Cotterell says the shorter 200m, and a potential relay spot, remains the best way for his charge to secure a spot on the plane to Rio.
Hackett’s 200m time at last weekend’s Brisbane meet was a 1:50.68, well off the 1:45.46 Cameron McEvoy swam on his way to the title at last year’s nationals.
Cotterell says there’s no plan to switch Hackett’s focus to a longer event.
“He’s not going to find that time. It’s a really long bow to expect he could get back in a distance event in a short time frame. It isn’t easy,” Cotterell told AAP.
“Plenty have tried and failed. Especially in shorter events, you can’t fake the preparation for that. That needs time to package it.”
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