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Olympic swimming has faced criticism after the qualifying times for 17 swimmers competing in the Rio Games were called into question. According to a report from the Guardian, nine competitors had entry times that did not match those listed at the World Aquatics Championships held in Kazan last year, and the other eight had times from events they didn't compete in or were disqualified from. The 17 athletes include 11 men and six women from 16 different countries. The International Swimming Federation (FINA) said the timing mistakes were made by the Rio Organizing Committee, but the ROC says the final responsibility for making sure the times are correct lies with FINA. All the swimmers involved were selected for the Games under FINA's "universality rule." This allows countries where no swimmer has achieved the qualifying time to pick one male and one female athlete to compete in the Games. Two hundred and twenty swimmers have been selected under this ruling. Kenyan swimmer Hamdan Bayusuf is one of the 17 swimmers whose entry time for Rio Olympics has changed. The actual results sheet from the race shows Bayusuf finished the race in 1:07. There is no suggestion the Kenyan or any of the other swimmers in Rio knew about the changed times. Timings from the Kazan championships were previously questioned last August after the Mexican swimming federation admitted it falsified many of its swimmers’ entry times at the event. FINA's executive director, Cornel Marculescu, refused to punish Mexico at the time as none of its swimmers advanced to the semi-finals or finals. John Leonard, the executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, criticized FINA's actions, saying it "clearly does not care about veracity in entry times to its events," the Guardian reports. The governing body did eventually suspend and fine Mexico after it pulled out of hosting the 2017 world championships. WSCA president George Block said he was worried by the discrepancies and insisted the universality rule was "something coaches have been concerned about for quite a few years." The US has pushed hard for FINA to fully switch to an electronic system for entries and seedings, but applications are still largely processed by hand. FINA refused to comment on the latest scandal to hit swimming, but it has recently asked for an independent report which it says will ensure "that good governance principles are properly implemented by FINA in an ever-changing modern sport environment." Source https://www.rt.com/sport/355441-olympic-swimming-under-scrutiny/
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Hi everybody. I'm searching for brazilians who would like to participate in some funny game play that can become a channel on youtube. I will use the FA servers to play. Anybody??
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Eduardo Campos, a prominent presidential candidate in Brazil, and six other people were killed in a plane crash in the southeast of the country, local media reported.The small aircraft came down onto houses in the city of Santos. All seven people on board the plane died in the crash, Agencia Brasil reported, citing officials from Campos' Brazilian Socialist Party. The aircraft went down in a residential area near a school of the port city of Santos, located 70km south-east of Sao Paulo. Initially, Santos firefighters said there were at least 10 people injured, according to online news portal G1. Five people have been reportedly rushed to hospital from the crash site, but a hospital official could not provide any details of their condition, Reuter’s reported. According to the Brazilian Air Force, the aircraft had taken off from Rio de Janeiro's domestic airport and was heading to the city of Guaruja, near Santos. Campos, 49, who was on board the plane, was the leader of the left-of-center Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and is set to challenge President Dilma Rousseff in a presidential poll set for next year. According to officials from the Brazilian Air Force, air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft after it failed to land in Guaruja because of bad weather. Locals have said that it was overcast and raining when the crash happened. Some reports have stated the aircraft was a helicopter, while others say it was a Cessna 560XL, a small type of private jet. Campos was considered both a modern manager and an old fashioned boss and had been a successful governor of the poor, northeastern state of Pernambuco. Some of the changes he introduced included attracting private investment, bringing private managers into state hospitals and putting some schools on an eight hour day, rather than the normal four-hour shifts common in Brazil. Campos had about 10 percent of votes for the upcoming poll, according to opinion polls. Rousseff was leading with 36 percent and Senator Aecio Neves had about 20 percent. It is likely the presidential campaign will be postponed for a period of mourning. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has cancelled all campaign activities for three days, according to her Worker's Party. The country also took a slight knock on the financial markets because of the crash, with Brazil’s main stock index losing as much as two percent, which then rallied to about 1 percent. Source:http://rt.com/news/180112-brazil-helicopter-crash-houses/ -
This brazilian reporter try to teach us how to eat Hot Sauce, lol.
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I recommend HD quality setting and a lock on your door http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBbAQ13E6V4
