“Maddy has a dream to swim in the Olympics. At age eleven she’s already rubbing shoulders with Olympians Nicole Livingstone, Linley Frame and Ash Delaney. With tips from these swimmers, she’s sure to be well on her way to achieving her goal.”
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The Intensive Training Centres (ITCs) in Swansea and Stirling will shut after governing body British Swimming’s Olympic budget for Rio 2016 was cut.
UK Sport reduced funding by £4m after Britain’s swimmers failed to reach a target of five medals at London 2012.
Stockport’s ITC shut in February, but bases in Loughborough and Bath, which house more elite swimmers, are safe.
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Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the sub-Antarctic for the first time, sharply raising the stakes of Japanese whaling.
Until now, the Japanese “scientific” hunt, which kills minkes, was thought to harpoon whales that lived almost exclusively in the Antarctic.
But a satellite tracking program on dwarf minke whales, the focus of growing reef tourism, followed one nicknamed Spot deep into the Southern Ocean before its tag expired. Asked if these whales could be taken by the whalers, CSIRO environmental scientist Matt Curnock said: “We are very concerned about that, yes.
“In tourism, they are worth many millions of dollars more than they are in the Japanese whale-meat market.”
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Photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie, who was recently held captive in Syria for 81 days, recounts the surreal story of being forced to teach a Hawaiian swimsuit-clad local militia leader how to swim. ‘I was holding him like a baby for an hour,’ says Alpeyrie, ‘but by the end he could swim.’
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She may be an Olympic swimming champion, but it was sink or swim for Rebecca Adlington when she took part in her first ever Bushtucker Trial for I’m A Celebrity on Friday.
The blonde athlete, 24, was forced to undertake the Drown Under challenge, which saw her submerged in a tank filled with baby crocodiles and massive spiders.
But she emerged triumphant securing the full ten stars for camp. She said: ‘I’m absolutely buzzing. My first trial, ten stars, I couldn’t be more happy.’
A beautiful 50-acre estate in the heart of the Berkshires has one unique feature: a luxurious, heated, self-cleaning pool that was converted from an old limestone rock quarry.
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China’s Olympic champion Sun Yang, who has been suspended indefinitely following a recent detention for driving without a licence, could return to national team training “soon”, said a top swimming official.
“We need to watch Sun Yang for a period of time. If he behaves well, it may not take a long time to allow him back to training at the national team,” Shang Xiutang, deputy head of the Chinese Swimming Administrative Center (CSAC), told reporters here on Friday.
But Shang refused to give a timetable on Sun’s return.
“If the suspension period is too short, he won’t draw lessons from it; but if it takes too long, it won’t be good for his sporting career,” he said.
