It's a big summer for Olympic sports
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Aquatics Sport News
IOC says is confident of Paris 2024 Games success despite riots
BERLIN: International Olympic officials expressed regret on Tuesday (Jul 4) at recent turmoil in France but said they were confident the country would hold a successful and welcoming Games next year.
Dressel misses World Aquatics Championships after return to competition at U.S. nationals
Two years after winning five Olympic gold medals, Caleb Dressel didn't even make America's world championship swim team.
Olympic champion Dressel fails to qualify for world championships
Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel failed to qualify for this month's World Aquatics Championships in Japan after more disappointing results at the U.S. National Championships in Indianapolis on Saturday.
EU taking a stand against pharmaceutical residues in wastewater
Every year, Uppsala's water treatment plant processes around 20 million cubic meters of wastewater. A cocktail of powerful pollutants - residues from medications against depression, inflammation, anxiety, and high blood pressure - have been detected in the water.
Ledecky qualifies for sixth world championships with blazing 800m freestyle
LOS ANGELES : American Katie Ledecky qualified for a sixth world championships on Tuesday after swimming the third-fastest 800m freestyle of all time, winning nationals in 8:07.07.
Sounding the alarm: Scientists say noise pollution is affecting ocean health
"The ocean has to tell us a lot. It's not silent. It's very noisy, actually," Lucia Di Iorio, a researcher in bioacoustics at the University of Perpignan, tells us.
'Extreme' heatwave is warming the sea waters around the UK
A sweltering marine heatwave, labelled as one of the Earth's most intense, is currently sweeping across the waters off the UK and Ireland. However, this is not your typical heatwave - the scorching temperatures are exclusive to the sea, leaving land temperatures unscathed.