Month: February 2018
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Finland Ice Swimmers Gather for Championship
Ahtari, a Finnish city with only around 6,000 residents, became lively as thousands of ice swimming enthusiasts gathered for the annual national championship recently.
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Rohan More becomes first Asian to swim across Ocean Seven
Pune-based swimmer, Rohan More became the first Asian as well as the first Indian to swim across the Ocean Seven. Rohan is the youngest person in the world to swim across the Ocean Seven. The Ocean’s Seven marathon consists of seven long-distance open-water swims, which includes the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel,…
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Swimming coach says he reported Sean Hutchison misconduct rumors years ago
A Southern California swim coach said he had reported rumors of former Team USA assistant swim coach Sean Hutchison being in a forbidden relationship with a U.S. champion swimmer at an Olympic training center years ago, CBS Los Angeles reports. The revelation about Hutchison comes after the swimmer, Ariana Kukors, said this week that he sexually abused her when…
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3-year-old dies from drowning at learn to swim center
Mitchell Chang was found at about 7:45 Saturday night in the deep end of the pool at Love to Swim on 20200 Stone Oak Parkway. Police said staff members found the boy, called an ambulance and performed CPR until first responders arrived. The boy was taken to North Central Baptist Hospital, where he died early…
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My Story | Ariana Kukors
Any swimmer will tell you about the black line on the bottom of every pool . . . the line that we follow day after day. We develop a relationship with that line; it holds our hopes and our dreams, but it also holds our fears. If only that black line could talk, it would…
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10 Times Olympic Athletes Stole the Gold and Shocked the World
7. Chad Le Clos When Michael Phelps gets in the pool, fans expect him to come out a winner. Is it any surprise then, that when South Africa’s Chad le Clos bested Phelps in the 200-meter butterfly during the 2012 London Games, many viewers were shocked? It’s hard not to root for Clos though, who…
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The child sporting prodigy dilemma
Cate Campbell was known as “the swimmer” at school. She was the kid who was good at sports. “In a way you become addicted to the praise and recognition,” the Australian champion says. Despite the diligence of her parents in trying to preserve her sense of self, her identity became inextricably fused to her performance…
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Why Hosting The Olympics Isn’t Worth It Anymore
It’s no secret that it’s a pricey pain to host the Olympic Games, running billions of dollars above the estimated budget. As the International Olympic Committee receives fewer bids with each problematic games, the future of the tradition is looking unsure. We spoke with Smith College Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist on the matter. He should know,…