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Eight Chinese policemen were sacked Monday after their naked swim at a tourist venue made waves online, state media said.
The auxiliary police officers were dismissed for “causing a negative impact on the image of the police”, Xinhua news agency quoted the public security bureau of Lushan county in the central province of Henan as saying.
Just a photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. So I spot 9 big TV cameras on the balcony, one above and at least one below.
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Swedish 2004 Olympian Cathrin Levander (Carlzon) was yesterday’s big hero in Uppsala, Sweden, when she while jogging in the cold winter night came by a crowd that was – to say the least – in distress. A baby carriage with a fastened two-year-old child on board had rolled down into the river, and they couldn’t find it. Cathrin jumped into the water and managed to find the carriage with her toes, a couple of meters below the water surface, where after she with from others got the cart and boy out of the water, to paramedics who immediately started resuscitation on the boy. Suffering from hypothermia, he was brought to the local hospital, together with his deeply shocked father. Later Wednesday night the boy was said to be stable, but still kept under observation in intensive care. Police is investigating the incident, suspecting no foul act.
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Triin Aljand, named Estonia’s sportswoman of the year for both 2011 and 2012, has announced that she is quitting professional swimming.
“The decision did not come easily. Considering that in the last few years I have had very many injuries, I arrived at an understanding that my body can no longer tolerate it [professional sport],†the 28-year-old said today in a press conference. […]
Aljand, who’s brother [Martti] is also a professional swimmer, won five medals in freestyle and butterfly at European Championships between 2010 to 2012.
She will now head to Turkey to begin a career in coaching.
European champion Camilla Pedersen is still in a critical condition after her accident the 3rd of September and she is kept in a coma in Odense, where her family is by her side.
As a professional athlete she is making her living from winning races and due to her accident, she will not be competing for a while.
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The concept of a waterproof camera is nothing new — most camera manufacturers offer a variety of waterproof point-and-shoots, and Nikon even made mass-market, waterproof film cameras back in the ’60s and ’70s. However, Nikon’s now bringing something new to the waterproof market: the oddly-named Nikon 1 AW1 is a mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera based on 2011’s Nikon 1 J1, but it keeps shooting when submerged in the water and is also shockproof and freezeproof.
The FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) is a five-day competition held every 2 years, where the world comes to witness record-breaking feats and action-packed races with swimming stars from all continents.
The 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) will be staged by Doha (QAT) from December 3-7, 2014.
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Doctors at Odense University Hospital, where the European Ironman Champion remains, have reported that they have begun to lower Pedersen’s sleeping medication and will begin the process to waken her. While Pedersen remains in a critical condition, she is more stable than before. This process can take up to two weeks.
Doctors have also reported that within the first week of lowering medication, it will become clearly for them to predict the damage that has occurred and therefore what, if any, long term effect will be a result.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta follows Diana Nyad while she attempts to break a world record, swimming from Cuba to Florida.
