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Real Life Heroes: Restore your faith in humanity

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Lala81

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I think someone who has personal courage to blow the whistle is also a hero.

 

She exposed the doping scandal of Russian sports. Now she's living in hiding. And what I find is a travesty is that IOC disallowed her to compete in the 2016 Olympics. Essentially other than her conscience and her health, she has had zero benefit and only negatives after blowing the whistle.

 

Yuliya stepanova

 

100 Women 2016: Russian doping whistleblower gives rare interview - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38253541

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Lala81

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Sad for this guy's kids and wife.

 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/australian-man-drowns-trying-to-save-children-at-wollongong-9204160

 

A hero but at at a tremendous cost to his own family.

Not even saving his own kids.

Now his 3 kids lost their father cos stupid parents allow kids out onto a beach that is closed.

 

 

 

 

SYDNEY: An Australian man drowned as he was trying to save two children from the waters off Wollongong City beach on Sunday (Sep 10), according to Australian media reports.

Victorian Shaun Oliver, 32, ran into the water when he saw two children aged 10 and 12 struggling in the water, the Australian reported, adding that their two other siblings were rescued by their father. 

A surfer managed to rescue the 12-year-old boy with Oliver's help, while the 10-year-old was pulled to safety by a paramedic.

But Mr Oliver, a father of three, succumbed to the current after his rescue attempt and was swept out to sea, reports said.

According to Sky News Australia, three police officers swam out to rescue Oliver. Despite parademics' attempts to revive him, Oliver died in hospital. 

Detective Inspector Brad Ainsworth said people should have avoided the beach on Sunday due to bad conditions.

 
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"The beach was closed. There was a heavy surf, a drag, an undercurrent, it was just all the conditions there that you don't go in." 

In an emotional post on a GoFundMe page after the incident, Oliver's brother Nathanael said he “responded to a call for help from children swept out and swam to the aid of his fellow man."

“Shaun has sacrificed his future happiness and shared life with wife Carla and three beautiful children to do what none of us hope to do in this lifetime ... be tested,” Nathanael added.

Police said investigations into the incident are ongoing.

Source: CNA/mn
Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/australian-man-drowns-trying-to-save-children-at-wollongong-9204160

 

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Blueray

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SAF medic lauded for helping boy who suffered breathing difficulties on Scoot flight

 

 

SINGAPORE - A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) medic has been lauded for going beyond the call of duty to help a boy suffering from breathing difficulties on a Scoot flight to Singapore.

 

According to a post on the Singapore Army Facebook page on Saturday night (April 7), Military Expert 3 (ME3) Thangaraj R. Krishnasamy, 50, was on his flight home after a holiday when it was announced that medical assistance was needed for a child.

A passenger told citizen journalism website Stomp that the incident happened at around 7.20pm on board flight TR869 from Bangkok to Singapore on March 31.

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/saf-medic-lauded-for-helping-boy-who-suffered-breathing-difficulties-on-scoot-flight

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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/hero-malian-saves-child-in-spectacular-paris-rescue-10282882

 

 

PARIS: A young Malian man was hailed a hero on Sunday (May 27) after he sprang into action to save a four-year-old child hanging from a fourth-floor balcony by single-handedly scaling the facade of the building and hauling the youngster to safety.

Without a thought for his own safety, Mamoudou Gassama took just seconds to reach the child in a spectacular rescue captured on film and viewed millions of times on social networks.

 

The incident took place at around 8.00pm (1800 GMT) on Saturday in northern Paris.

Film of the rescue shows Gassama, 22, pulling himself up from balcony to balcony with his bare hands as a man on the fourth floor tries to hold on to the child by leaning across from a neighbouring balcony.

On reaching the fourth floor Gassama puts one leg over the balcony before reaching out with his right arm and grabbing the child.

Firefighters arrived at the scene to find the child had already been rescued.

"Luckily, there was someone who was physically fit and who had the courage to go and get the child," a fire service spokesman told AFP.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo praised the young migrant on Twitter for his "act of bravery" as well as phoning him personally to "thank him warmly".

"He explained to me that he had arrived from Mali a few months ago dreaming of building his life here.

"I told him that his heroic act is an example to all citizens and that the city of Paris will obviously be very keen to support him in his efforts to settle in France," she added.

The young Malian will next be honoured for his brave rescue by French President Emmanuel Macron who has invited him to the Elysee Palace on Monday, his office told AFP.

Tracked down by reporters 24 hours after the heroic rescue, Gassama said he had acted without thinking.

"I saw all these people shouting, and cars sounding their horns. I climbed up like that and, thank God, I saved the child," he said.

"I felt afraid when I saved the child... (when) we went into the living room, I started to shake, I could hardly stand up, I had to sit down," he added.

According to initial inquiries by the authorities, the child's parents were not at home at the time.

The father was later held for questioning by police for having left his child unattended and was due in court later, a judicial source said. The child's mother was not in Paris at the time.

Source: AFP/na
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/hero-malian-saves-child-in-spectacular-paris-rescue-10282882

 

 

 

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Datsun366

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Unker Tan. Congratulations and many blessings for your next journey.

 

Swaying on the rubble pile in Taiwan. Hey thats Chris Tan the siao ey! Hahhahahhaha

 

 

Last Day at Work: The SCDF officer who cared for people and helped save lives

 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/last-day-at-work-scdf-commander-saved-lives-fires-earthquake-11344088

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