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Australian swimmer Kyle Chalmers’ world record in the 100m freestyle and 4x100m relay at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Paris will not count as an official record, Swimming Australia has said. Metro.Chalmers produced a brilliant final leg for Australia, swimming the 100 metres in 46.59 seconds, which earned the team the silver medal, narrowly missing out on the gold medal to the United States. Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe hailed Chalmers’ swim as “the best relay I’ve ever seen.”The 26-year-old Chalmers smashed the previous world 100m record by 0.21 seconds, swimming in 46.59 seconds. China’s Pan Jianle is reported…

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An entire valley community left behind by mobile technology has finally connected to the digital world. The village of Paengmakno in Eriri was left without mobile phone services and has struggled for a long time as a result. People were unable to call emergency services, local buses were unable to locate passengers, mobile library services were unable to issue tickets and there were extended power outages. This remote village in the Macno Valley is renowned as a hub for the Welsh language and culture. The village is home to around 600 residents and faces similar pressures to other rural communities…

There’s someone I’d like you to meet. Let us meet him. Finbar Kirwan is the most influential Irish man in sport.He will flinch when introduced. Ignore his evasions. His official title is Director of U.S. Olympic Sports, which means that the U.S. team’s performance in the Summer and Winter Olympics begins and ends at his desk. For everything that happens in between, plausible deniability is not a valid defense.How did he get there? Can you give us a moment? Kirwan has navigated the gaps and thorns of Irish sporting politics. More than 20 years ago he was appointed the first…

The water quality meeting, held at 3:30 am on 30 July, was attended by representatives of Paris 2024, the World Triathlon Federation, its technical and medical representatives, the International Olympic Committee, Météo-France, the City of Paris and the prefectures of the Île-de-France region involved in carrying out the water quality tests. It was decided to postpone the men’s triathlon, which was scheduled to start at 8 am on 30 July. Taking into account the latest weather information, it has been decided that the men’s triathlon will be scheduled for 10:45am on July 31st. The women’s triathlon is scheduled to take…

Katy Perry has officially announced her song “Lifetimes” as the next single from her upcoming album, 143. On Monday morning, the pop star posted to her 206 million Instagram followers: “PRE-SAVE LIFETIMES AUGUST 9 SONG + VIDEO NOW. KATY.TO/LIFETIMES.”The 39-year-old singer recently revealed that the song was inspired by her and fiancé Orlando Bloom’s daughter Daisy, who turns 4 on August 20.Perrie coordinates a dance routine with influencer duo Brooke Blueitt and Jess Qualter for the teaser, which also features Irish singing duo Jedward.This comes less than a month after her comeback single “Woman’s World” failed to impress fans. Katy…

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied. Hotfixes July 29, 2024 Classes Priest Fixed an issue where Void Summoner was providing twice as much cooldown reduction than…

No world records have ever been set in Olympic swimming, and no swimmer would have finished higher than eighth in the men’s 100m breaststroke final at the 2021 Tokyo Games.Telegraph Sport looks at a strange phenomenon that has emerged at La Défense arena and why it could be due to the depth of the pool.Is your swimming time slow?Given the excellent water quality of the pool, advances in swimwear technology and the fact that the swimmers have spent the better part of the last four years peaking for this moment, the answer must be yes.Take for example the 100m breaststroke,…

At SIGGRAPH fVDB, NVIDIA unveiled a new deep learning framework for generating AI-enabled virtual representations of the real world. fVDB is built on OpenVDB, the industry standard library for simulating and rendering sparse volumetric data such as water, fire, smoke, and clouds. Generative physics AI, such as autonomous cars and robots that inhabit the real world, requires “spatial intelligence” – the ability to understand and navigate 3D space. Capturing both large-scale and microscopic details of the world around us is essential, but translating reality into a virtual representation to train AI is challenging. Raw data of real-world environments can be…

The ultimate Olympic showdown Team USA Katie Grimes and Canada’s Summer McIntoshCanadians 2024 Paris Olympics She won the women’s 400m individual medley in a landslide victory. The two swimmers took an early and comfortable lead, already a full body length ahead of the other swimmers in the final 50 meters of the race, before McIntosh took the lead and finished in 4:27.71, 5.69 seconds ahead of runner-up Grimes. McIntosh, just 17 years old, will step onto the Olympic podium for the first time after winning silver in the 400m freestyle on the first day of the Olympics (July 27). It…