SYDNEY http://www.winnipegjetsteamstore.com/adidas-marko-dano-jersey , Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Two Australian fishermen were admitted to hospital on Saturday after their boat was broadsided by a humpback whale, with the impact knocking them unconscious.
According to reports on Monday, the charter vessel with four man crew was sailing off the coast of Bowen located in the popular Whitsunday Islands region of the Australian state of Queensland when the large whale hit, with a rescue helicopter called to the scene to retrieve the injured men.
Oliver Galea, 44, was one of the those hurt - and received eight stitches in his head at the nearby Propserine Hospital as a result of the attack on the boat - which he told local media happened in a "split second."
Mark Young, a passenger on board the boat who was visiting Australia from Zambia http://www.winnipegjetsteamstore.com/adidas-mark-scheifele-jersey , was knocked unconscious by the strike according to Greg Wilson, who was also on board, and said that he "hit his head on the front rail."
"Mark, the man next to me was unconscious, it all happened so fast, it was a freak accident," Wilson said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- China has chosen Sao Paulo's prestigious Esporte Clube Pinheiros as its training base ahead of this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The country's athletes will use the club in Brazil's most populous city to train and aclimatize ahead of the August 5-21 Games.
Located in the exclusive neighborhood of Jardim Europa, Esporte Club Pinheiros covers an area of 170,000 square meters, equivalent to about 10 football pitches.
The announcement follows 18 months of negotiations between Chinese officials and the club's administrators.
Esporte Clube Pinheiros is expected to reveal more details about the agreement in the coming days.
To minimize disruption to its 38,000 members, the club will schedule times for which its facilities will be available exclusively to China's athletes.
"The facilities have already been rented and will be at the disposition of China between July 22 and August 15," the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper said on Wednesday.
It added that some Chinese athletes have already begun training at the complex.