The unlikely story of how a Russian pool champion became a star of Team USA

After struggling to keep up with Europe for more than a decade, Team USA’s pool team acquired an unlikely star: Russian world ...
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Biggest swimming pool in Russia's Muslim south bans women, causing outcry

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The biggest swimming pool in Russia's Muslim-majority North Caucasus region has banned women, prompting anger from rights activists and others who have accused the sports complex of ...