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  • The death of a 6-year-old boy in southeast Texas has sparked an investigation into the area’s water supply. Josiah McIntyre died on September 8 in Lake Jackson, Texas from an often fatal brain-eating amoeba. Mireya Villarreal reports.

  • Scientists are concerned that climate change may be making N. fowleri infections more common. “In theory as the world heats up there will be more surface water at around 30 degrees Celsius [86 degrees Fahrenheit] so there will be more N. fowleri habitat” Maciver wrote. However, many factors, not just water temperature play a role in its occurrence.

    There’s still a lot we don’t know about the amoeba: For instance, why so few people contract its fatal disease, when we know the amoeba itself is widespread enough to be infecting far more people than its killing. “There is a tendency for PAM to occur in outbreaks,” Maciver and colleagues noted in a 2019 paper. They wrote it’s likely there have been more global deaths of it since the 1960s than the 400-plus that are currently identified.

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  • Arena, Form Swim and Magic5 have some of the most expensive goggles on the market. We got to test them in an Endless Pool and put together this short review on their comfort, usability, what’s great, and what’s still to be determined.

  • The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games brought us some of the most incredible moments in sport, but Para Swimming in particular consistently brought the excitement, tension, and history-making moments throughout the Games. Experience some of the most memorable moments from Para Swimming at Rio 2016 as we await the magic of Tokyo 2020.

  • Jason Lezak got kicked off the UCSB swim team in the middle of his Junior year. A decade later he split 46.0 on the back of Team USA’s 4×100 Free Relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to reel in France’s Alain Bernard.

  • The Wayzata girls swimming and diving team lost a dual meet for the first time this season, falling 110-76 to last year’s state Class AA runner-up Minnetonka. The Skippers won eight of the twelve varsity events. Defending state butterfly champion Claire Reinke of Wayzata won the 100 Fly in 55.84 seconds with Jenna Marquette winning the 100 breaststroke and the Trojans’ Sarah Cao placing first in diving. Minnetonka won two out of the three relay events.

  • North Central Coach Jenny Garrison joins the show to discuss women in sports, specifically role models for the next generation

  • Great Britain’s Tom Daley and China’s Chen Aisen put on a show in the 10m Platform Final at the 2017 edition of the FINA World Championships in Budapest scoring many perfect 10s across six rounds of dives. A cliffhanger battle for the Gold medal which deserves to be watched until the very end!

  • The 2021 Island Games have been called off because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    The multi-sport event for small islands across the world was due to be held in Guernsey between 3 and 9 July, with 3,500 competitors and officials, and 1,000 volunteers set to be involved.

    No decision has been made on when the games will take place and what could happen to the planned Island Games in Orkney in 2023.

    The last Island Games were held in Gibraltar in the summer of 2019.

    “We have waited for even the slightest possible opportunity to go on with the Games in 2021, but we have to acknowledge the facts,” said International Island Games Association chair Jorgen Pettersson.

    “The pandemic is not over, the quarantine regulations will continue to make planning forward very, very difficult and even impossible.

    “Therefore, it would not be fair to ask the member islands or the host island to commit financially to an event next summer.

    “This has been a difficult decision to accept for all of us. I am truly sorry for this decision, but I also know the determination in our island communities, and I am convinced we will come back in friendly competition under the umbrella of NatWest International Island Games as soon as possible.”

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