U.S. swimmer dies during event in United Arab Emirates
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[quote]CNN) -- A 26-year-old member of the U.S. national swimming team died Saturday during an open-water race in the United Arab Emirates, according to event officials.
Fran Crippen died during the last leg of the 10-kilometer Marathon Swimming World Cup in Fujairah, said the International Swimming Federation, or FINA.
The cause of death is under investigation, FINA said. Swimming World magazine reported that Crippen fell unconscious during the event and was found by deep-sea divers two hours later near the race's final buoy.
The U.S. Olympic Committee issued a statement Saturday saying it was "extremely saddened" to learn of Crippen's death.
"We send our condolences and deepest sympathies to the Crippen family as well as to our entire swimming community," the USOC statement said. "While details of this tragedy are still forthcoming, we shall keep this outstanding young athlete and his family in our thoughts and prayers."
Crippen won bronze in the 10-kilometer event at the 2009 FINA World Championships and was the gold medalist in the same event at the 2007 Pan American Games, according to USA Swimming.
Crippen of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, was inspired to take up swimming at age 6 after watching older sister Maddy Crippen compete. Maddy Crippen was a member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic team, according to USA Swimming.
Crippen graduated in 2006 from the University of Virginia, where he was twice named Atlantic Coast Conference Swimmer of the Year.[/quote]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/10/23/swimmer.death/index.html?hpt=T1[/url]
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whoa, you'd think they would watch them to make sure this doesn't happen
[QUOTE=Penguiin;25603232]whoa, you'd think they would watch them to make sure this doesn't happen[/QUOTE]
If I had to guess it's probably related to their heart. Can you imagine the stress they would be under at an event like this?
I bet it was toxins in the water. Dubai is a shitty as fuck city.
Probably pirates that ran him over with a ship, then stole his speedos.
I'll steal your speedo, Brage.
They usually don't put on monitors because being streamlined is important, but how on earth did no one see him? And it took them two hours to find him?
[QUOTE=Morcam;25605356]They usually don't put on monitors because being streamlined is important, but how on earth did no one see him? And it took them two hours to find him?[/QUOTE]
10km is a pretty long stretch, and a swimmer normally doesn't look around while swimming.
Plus, the body sank
Blame it on video games!
From what I understand, it had to do with the water temperature. Something about it being above 95 F.
[QUOTE=animephreak135;25607568]From what I understand, it had to do with the water temperature. Something about it being above 95 F.[/QUOTE]
That's 35C, so yes, with that and the strain, his body probably couldn't cool itself.
He died of heat stroke. In a lake. :irony:
The competition really is sink or swim
That pun is just going to be drowned out in this topic.
Explains why the apartment prices in Burj Dubai are sinking like a rock.
We should invade them for this.
Poor guy...
Do you know how difficult it is to swim in open water unaided?
That swimmer died from either exhaustion or got lost in the current. The open sea is deadly.
I'm pretty sure he got pulled under and drowned, you'd think will all his training he wouldn't die of exhaustion.
Same kind of thing happened recently in Iceland.
Apparently we're picking up sea-swimming, and one guy suffered a stroke out in the open sea.
[QUOTE=TheIceman;25614021]Same kind of thing happened recently in Iceland.
Apparently we're picking up sea-swimming, and one guy suffered a stroke out in the open sea.[/QUOTE]
A stroke up in Iceland makes sense as your water is cold, causing blood vessels to contract, and thus if he had any sort of minor blockage before, hours in the cold water screwed him over.
[QUOTE=Libertas;25609800]That's 35C, so yes, with that and the strain, his body probably couldn't cool itself.
He died of heat stroke. In a lake. :irony:[/QUOTE]
i've been diving in 30C water and trust me, it's not that warm. the water takes so much heat away from your body i cannot believe that he overheated. maybe if he'd been swimming in thermal spring water...
35C is body temperature, and since the thermal difference between him and the water won't haven been very high he could have over heated, maybe.
More likely just didn't properly prepare by taking on a lot of fats and ran out of energy and exhausted himself.
but water conducts heat away from the body much faster than air, hence why 35C water feels a lot cooler than 35C air temperature.
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