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What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? How long could I safely stay at the surface?
Bobby Finke wins Men’s 1500M Freestyle at the 2024 TYR Pro Swim Series in San Antonio. Felix Auboeck and William Mulgrew take second and third.
Nicholas Bennett of Parksville, B.C., sets a new Canadian record in the men’s S14 200-metre freestyle with a time of 1:54.20.
South African swimmers, both new and seasoned, are embracing the new standards introduced to this year’s Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee. Most athletes are in consensus that swimming is becoming faster and more competitive, and that qualifying times have to be adjusted accordingly. The swimmers spoke at the National Swimming Championships hosted by Gqeberha at the Newton Park Swimming Pool.
The triathlon events at the Paris Olympics could be delayed or even canceled after water samples from the River Seine show alarming levels of E.Coli.
The GB Aquatics Olympic Trials were one of the best produced and quickest meets we’ve seen in the LC pool in a long time outside of an Olympics or a World Championships. Swim meets at this level typically run pretty smoothly, but when dealing with as many moving parts as you do at a swim meet…something is bound to go wrong.
Day two of Swimming South Africa’s National Championships are underway in Gqeberha and the country’s top swimming stars are vying for a spot on the team going to the Olympics set to take place in France in July. Among these stars is veteran Chad le Clos, who has already secured his spot for his fourth Olympic sojourn. Young gun, Pieter Coetzé, will also take to the water with other big names such as Tatjana Schoenmaker, Kaylene Corbett and Lara van Niekerk who are all aiming for Paris. This will be no easy task, as the International Olympic Committee, has tightened…
First responders raced against the clock to bring a swimmer back to life. Video shows the moment a man was pulled from the water and how quickly first responders sprang into action. FOX 35’s Chris Lindsay spoke with some of those heroes who helped save the swimmer.
Seven year old Hiro Sakamoto has been swimming in a pool of challenges his whole life but has never been one to let his disability slow him down. Hiro’s mom Kalyn Sakamoto said he was diagnosed in utero, but the full picture was unclear at the time. “We knew that he was going to have some limb differences,” she said. “Obviously you can’t see very clearly what they would be. We decided to just let things go and we would see what happens at birth.” Hiro and his mom Kalyn visited Oceanside from Pasadena for the adaptive swim clinic, an…