Month: June 2013
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Swim Meet to Honor former Founder
See wjbf.com The Springlakes swim team has hosted a relay meet in Augusta for the past 25 years. The meet annually draws the best competition from around the region. This year’s meet will be extra special. The club has renamed the event after its founder, Pete Igel. Igel passed away last year at the age…
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CC photo #539: Moldova at Istanbul 2012
Just a photo from the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. I guess coach and swimmer from Moldova having a chat during warmup on the 3rd day of the championships.
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Higher percentage of US minorities don’t know how to swim; fear the biggest barrier
See wsoctv.com Several recent drownings in North Carolina are drawing attention to an unsettling gap when it comes to minorities and swimming. About 70 percent of black children do not know how to swim, compared to 40 percent of white kids. A study by USA Swimming blames the gap on income and lack of inner-city…
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Sean Conway to swim the entire length of Britain, from Land’s End to John O’Groats
Read Falmouth Packet and see his site Land’s End has been the iconic starting point for many length of Britain cyclists, walkers and drivers, but one endurance athlete will now attempt to set off on a 1,000 mile swim to John O’Groats. On the July 1, 32-year-old Sean Conway will attempt to become the first…
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Lewis Pugh to embark on 3-year Circumnavigation of Globe as UNEP Patron for Oceans
See UNEP News Centre Pioneer swimmer and ocean advocate Lewis Pugh was June 19th unveiled as the UN Environment Programme’s Patron for Oceans as he prepares to embark on an epic circumnavigation of the globe. Mr. Pugh, a maritime lawyer from London, is the only person to have completed a long distance swim in every…
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Hundreds brave cold for inaugural Dark MOFO nude swim
Read for instance Limelight, ABC, news.com.au and The Mercury Hundreds of people have stripped off and swum nude in the River Derwent in Hobart as part of the Dark MOFO winter festival. The water temperature was about 12 degrees, but the air temperature had fallen to a mere two degrees at Sandy Bay, prompting a…
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Pan Am Aquatics Centre, a closer look
See Daily Commercial News Construction progress on the new Pan Am Aquatics Centre is approximately halfway complete as it is slated to finish up in July 2014. Located at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus, the facility will be home to swimming events during the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games in Toronto.