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The World Anti-Doping Agency banned the inhalation of xenon gas on Sunday night after deciding it could be used to enhance athletes’ performances illegally.
The president of Wada, Sir Craig Reedie, revealed that the untraceable substance, which studies have shown can stimulate the production of erythropoietin (EPO) and testosterone, had been added to the agency’s prohibited list with immediate effect.
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After 200m free, Sun shouted and punched in the air, releasing his pressure from the public since the non-license driving incident.
“I’m satisfied with today’s performance. It’s an easy win,” Sun said after setting the world’s fifth best of this year in 200m free.
Sun is expected to meet with arch rival Park Tae-Hwan of South Korea in the Asian Games. Sun’s result in 200m free here was 0.01 seconds quicker than Park’s personal best of this year.
“I saw his result, which is 0.01 seconds slower than mine,” Sun said.
In his specialties 400m and 1500m, Sun enjoyed a comfortable lead, while seeing results about 5 and 30 seconds shy of those set two years ago respectively.
In Zhang’s mind, Sun has a long way to go back to the top. “He is far from his top level,” he said.
Apparently from back in 2012. Sweet
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Originally filmed a year ago, the video has been given new life by GoPro, who decided to pick it up, do some color grading and other edits, and repost it on their own YouTube channel where it’s gotten over 150,000 views in the last 2 days.
The original footage isn’t quite so vibrant, but it’s gorgeous and peaceful nonetheless
Swimming great Kieren Perkins has revealed a panic attack nearly led him to abandon an Olympic gold-medal-winning race that became one of the most enduring moments in Australian sporting history.
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These is the almost 600 apartment Sky Habitat currently being built in Singapore. The 38-story towers will have three 50-meter bridges connecting the two. The top one of which will be a pool. It looks like the perfect place to get out of the pool and die. “I suspect the deceased was trying to cheat at Marco Polo and got out on the wrong side of the pool. He was dry by the time he hit the ground,” the coroner’s report will read.
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Swimming pools are a much greater danger to black children and teens than they are to other kids, a new government study shows.
Black children ages 5 to 19 drown in swimming pools at a rate more than five times that of white children, the research found. That suggests a lot of blacks are not learning to swim, said the lead author, Dr. Julie Gilchrist of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Swimming is a life-saving skill, not just another sport, she said.
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Ryan, 33, a born and raised Queenslander, is based in London where he works as a lawyer for a US firm that buys and markets the digital rights to sporting events. When his Finnish girlfriend Inka Karppinen took him home to meet her family in 2008, she introduced him to the local custom of ice swimming.
Basically the Finns cut a hole in the ice, dunk themselves in the freezing water for a few seconds then head to the sauna. Ryan said he’d give it a go.
“It’s amazing what you’ll do when there’s a blonde involved,” he said.
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