Eighty-eight Malagasy athletes will be sent to China for five months of training this year, Malagasy sports minister said on Friday. “Eighty-eight Malagasy athletes in five disciplines will be selected by Chinese experts and Malagasy technicians and will leave this year for five months of training in China,” Madagascar’s minister of sports Anicet Andriamosarisoa said during the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese ambassador to Madagascar Yang Xiaorong.

… with cool design elements. It is a very large phone though, and looks almost silly next to the LG G6 that also sports a 5.7 inch display. The HTC U Ultra is about 12 mm longer and 8 mm wider than the LG G6. This may not sound like much, but lying …

Periods are still seen, by many people, as ‘gross’ or ‘dirty’. In the last year, people have called period sex ‘disgusting’ and suggested that women on their periods shouldn’t swim in public pools .

… the conference focused on the landmark federal law’s impact on molding opportunities for girls and women in sports. But it also allowed local athletes, and those who have coached them, a forum to discuss some of the issues facing them as more and …

One of the best outfield arms ever seen in major league baseball was in Vauxhall last weekend to lend a helping hand. Former Toronto Blue Jays right-fielder Jesse Barfield – who formed what is considered to have been one of the best outfields of the 1980s alongside George Bell and Lloyd Moseby – visited southern Alberta to attend the Vauxhall Academy of Baseball’s 11th annual Awards and Scholarship Banquet Saturday night as a guest speaker.

… Award before pipping rugby 7s supremo Mark Robertson and mountain bike maestro Grant Ferguson to the GB Technologies Sports Personality of the Year Award one of two public vote sections at thisyear’s awards. Photograph by Phil Wilkinson. Free use …

The 2017 NCAA Division III Championships are quickly approaching. The meet will take place in Shenandoah, Texas from March 15-18.

A local council in southern Sydney has warned swimmers and their pets not to enter the water at Kurnell after a dog was taken by a shark. Pet owners should also keep their animals away from the water at the off-leash area at Bonna Point Reserve in Kurnell, after the dog was attacked by what was believed to be a bull shark on Sunday evening.

NCAAs. The National Championships. For many college swimmers those words conjure an image of a meet they’d dream of attending.

Melrose earned the following medals at the state gym meet. Mady Brinkman: first bars, third beam, sixth all-around.

Sophomore Riley Scott won a Pac-12 title in the 200y breast, sophomore Maddie Wright was second in the 200y fly while freshman Louise Hansson and sophomore Kirsten Vose posted third-place finishes to lead No. 5 USC on the final night of the 2017 Pac-12 Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Federal Way, Wash., on Saturday .

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The senior guard scored 16 of her game-high 26 points in the second half to power the Cougars past Blue Hills 41-39 Thursday in the semifinals of the State Vocational Small School Tournament. Points Old Colony sophomore Jake Jason needs to reach 1,000 for his career.

When Matt Davis took over the Hudson girls swimming and diving team, he had visions of turning the Lady Explorers into a perennial Northeast district powerhouse. The Lady Explorers captured their fifth consecutive Cleveland Division I district championship and sixth title in the last seven years after a first-place finish Feb. 18 at Cleveland State University’s Busbey Natatorium.

Ben Cornwell, pictured with his kids Emma and Kenneth, says the swimming school being run from a home next door “sounds like they’re torturing kids”. Picture: Sylvia Liber.

Ryedale Swim and Fitness Centre in Pickering is among 600 venues nationally hosting Swimathon to help raise vital funds for Marie Curie, one of the UK’s leading charity for people living with a terminal illness and their families. Now in its 30th year, Swimathon will take place across the weekend of April 7 to 9. Swimmers can challenge themselves to distances 5k, 2.5k or 1.5k, entering individual or in teams.

The stillness of a misty February morning is broken by a splash as diver Tony Mulhall plunges into the frigid waters off British Columbia’s North Coast. Fighting bone-chilling temperatures, strong currents, and the all-too-real possibility of kelp entanglement, he swims down to the rocks below in search of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis and Strongylocentrotus franciscanus -green and red sea urchin.

Cinderella’s Castle glows during the finale of the nightly light show in the Magic Kingdom. Autumn Shwintek and Brayden and Justin Buchta toss a ball along the shores of Sanibel Island.

Aqua Vale Swimming and Fitness Centre, operated by Everyone Active in partnership with Aylesbury Vale District Council, is taking part in the World’s Biggest Charity Swim to raise money for Marie Curie. The Swimathon will take place over the weekend of the 7th to 9th April.

By Anas Abu Hassan KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 — Being born without limbs below the hips has not discouraged Muhammad Haziq Samrat, 22, from craving for extreme sports and activities, just others his age. The recipient of the International Islamic College Inspiration Award loves, among others, surfboarding or longboarding, swimming, ‘wall climbing’ and other activities, using the power of his hand.

Nat Bassingthwaite and Lisa Curry can’t hold back the tears on I’m A Celebrity as they received messages from their kids. Three-time Olympian Lisa Curry was the first personality to enter the South African camp of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! LISA Curry’s jungle journey has come to an end with the three-time Olympian eliminated from Channel Ten reality show I’m A Celebrity a Get Me Out Of Here! Curry, 54, lasted nearly six weeks in the South African jungle, vying for the $100,000 prize money for her chosen charity, Aussie Helpers.

GOLDEN: Miette Hoppper with her gold medal after winning the 50 metre breaststroke at the Victorian Sprint championships in Melbourne on Sunday. Picture: CONTRIBUTED HORSHAM Miette Hopper won gold in the 14-year-old 50 metre breaststroke at the Victorian Sprint Championships on Sunday.

The Yukon boys and girls swim teams competed in the 6A West Regional Swim Meet this past weekend at Mitch Park in Edmond. Here is the list of Yukon swimmers who qualified for the 6A State Swim Meet, which takes place next weekend at Jenks High School: The Millerette swimmers are Lauren Boswell , Cegan Cordes , Elise Flanders , Madeline Gray , Katie Johnson , Kaylynn Johnson , Madison Lee , Amanda Toney , Alyssa Wilson , Jaydan McCubbin and Carol Morrison .

A n Africa Games swimmer, Tebasan Graham has urged the Nigeria Acquatics Federation to intensify its effort at engaging athletes regularly in competitions at the grassroots. Graham, who represented Nigeria at the 2007 Africa Games in Algeria, made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria at the swimming event of the ongoing 11th Nigeria Navy Games at Teslim Balogun Stadium.

Two asylum seekers have been charged with molesting five girls between the ages of 12 to 14 at a German swimming pool. A local police report from the Ratzeburg force states the suspects were two ‘southern-looking’ men who molested them under the water.

Horizons Regional Council has selected 10 swim spots in Manawatu and surrounding regions and put them up for public vote. On Wednesday, Palmerston North’s Waitoetoe Park had 20 per cent of the votes, edged out by Mosquito Point in Whanganui, which had 29 per cent.

Watauga’s swim teams did not qualify any team members for the state 4-A swim meet, but Pioneers coach David Gragg was encouraged with how his team swam at the Western 4-A Regional held at South Mecklenburg High School on Feb. 3-4. Two Watauga girls’ relay teams – the 200-medley relay and the 200-freestyle – finished in ninth place.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Mel Roberts, the longtime swimming coach at Tooele High School, works the last days of his 49 year career at the Leigh Pratt Aquatic Center on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. The Salt Lake Tribune) Mel Roberts, the longtime swimming coach at Tooele High School, works the last days of his 49 year career at the Leigh Pratt Aquatic Center on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017.