Year: 2018
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Free Live Streaming from All LEN Champions League Matches
LEN has chosen Dailymotion’s player technology to livestream the Men’s Water Polo Champions League – here each and every game is available and can be followed for free. From now on, Dailymotion will have a dedicated Champions League channel where the live streaming of each game is featured as well as all previous matches and the…
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We Should Have Seen the USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Allegations Coming
As someone who competed for 11 years at the national level, I can tell you that as much as I loved swimming, I also hated it. Nearly every coach I came across with a reputation for being one of the best was also incredibly mean. Not just “makes you swim hard†mean, but yelling, cursing,…
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Japan unveils Tokyo 2020 Olympics superhero mascots
One has an athletic figure and a strong sense of justice. The other is a cherry blossom-inspired superhero. Meet the new Olympic and Paralympic mascots that the Tokyo 2020 organisers hope will whip up enthusiasm for the Games – and drive merchandise sales. Read The Guardian
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Northwest China City Holds “Naked Pig Run” to Advocate Winter Swimming
Around 100 sports enthusiasts stripped down to their underwear in wintry conditions to hold a “naked pig run” in Xi’an, capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province on Sunday to launch a winter swimming activity. http://www.cctvplus.com/news/20180227…
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Para-swimmer Rosie Bancroft appeals for stolen prosthetic leg’s return
ParalympicsGB hopeful Rosie Bancroft, who swims for the City of Manchester team, had hidden the limb in the back seat of her blue Fiat 500 convertible. The car was stolen from outside her house in Manchester on Saturday night. The 23-year-old said her vehicle had been specially adapted, including the positioning of the accelerator pedal,…
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Russian Freediver Swims Record 100 Meters Under Baikal’s Half-Meter-Thick Ice
A Russian freediver and the freezing but beautiful waters of Lake Baikal– what brought them together? It appears that an astonishing new sports record has. On February 25, freediver Dmitry Sokolov swam 100 meters under a 50 cm-thick sheet of ice covering the world’s largest freshwater lake: Baikal, in Russia’s Siberia. He managed to hold…
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Russian ice swimmers brave -10C temperatures
Competitors aged from 11 to 70 participated in Russia’s Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad…
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Meet The Toxic Swimmer
Meet the man who swims in toxic waterways, Christopher Swain. As part of his mission to protect threatened waterways, Christopher Swain was the first person in history to swim the entire lengths of the Columbia, Charles, Hudson, Mohawk, and Mystic Rivers, as well as Lake Champlain, the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, and large sections of…