Pope meets swimming worlds athletes

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday met athletes participating in the swimming world championships in Rome and urged them to act as role models for fellow youths "in sports and in life."

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Mum's the word on swimsuits for British team

Hoping to avoid any distractions caused by high-tech suits, the British team barred media from asking its swimmers about the issue after arriving for the world championships.

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Movie line helps pair survive 15 hours in water

Repeating a favorite line from a Disney movie helped a Florida father and his autistic son survive more than 15 hours treading water in the Atlantic, the man said Wednesday.

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3 missing, 4 dead after weekend of riptides in NY

Rescuers suspended their search Sunday for a 10-year-old girl in the water off Coney Island, one of three swimmers still missing from powerful ocean currents at New York City and Long Island beaches over the weekend.

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Topless Swimmers Make Waves in Sweden

A group of Swedish women is making waves by taking their tops off at public swimming pools in a protest against what they call gender-biased rules on swim wear.

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Florida officials say a 54-year-old swimmer died in rough waves fueled by Hurricane Bill.

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Swimmers warned over loved-up dolphin New Zealand swimmers are being warned not to go out into the sea alone - or they risk getting a little too much love from a lonely dolphin.

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Police divers have harpooned a huge fish that had been terrorising swimmers in a Swiss lake, sending a few to hospital with bite wounds.

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A Michigan man who killed three teens in a shooting rampage on the Wisconsin border last summer has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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A GIANT rogue eel has terrorised swimmers at a Gold Coast hinterland swimming hole - but park rangers say there's nothing they can do to prevent the attacks.

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Another sniper is on the loose. This time in northern Wisconsin and targeting young swimmers.

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One minute the swimmers were weaving through an eight-lane loom of water like dolphins, to the delight of thousands of howling and whistling fans. The next minute some were gasping for air.

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A number of German bathers in Berlin's Schlachtensee lake have been bitten by what is believed to be a giant catfish. Many are now apprehensive about escaping the summer heat with a dip.

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Ryan Lochte, an Olympic swimmer, said he felt like a superhero. Michael Phelps, who is expected to win multiple gold medals at the Beijing Games, said it was as if he were wearing a spacesuit.

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Slovenian Martin Strel, after braving crocodiles, piranhas, disease and the threat of an imminent heart attack, on Sunday completed a record-setting 66-day, 3,274-mile (5,268 km) swim down the Amazon River and was taken to a hospital.

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Swimmers Warned After Rash Of Portuguese Man-Of-War Stings

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