Swimmer's Daily

Category: Organization

  • Lifeguard fired for refusing to wear Speedos ?

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    61-year-old Roy Lester says he lost his job as a lifeguard because he wanted to take the annual swimming test in bicycle shorts instead of the tiny trunks. “They were just trying to get rid of the older guys. To me the whole key to being a good lifeguard is experience.” Lester is a triathlete,…

  • The +Pool, a floating pool in the heart of New York

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    Designers have come up with an astonishing, floating, plus sign-shaped pool they hope to build in the East River, off Brooklyn Bridge Park. One of the technical challenges is water filtration, with the pool being planned as basically a “giant strainer”, filtering contaminated river water into clean, swimmable pool water. In order to accomplish this,…

  • Independent SPARC review scolds Swimming New Zealand

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    Swimming New Zealand’s high performance environment was today described by an independent Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) review as negative and with a culture of distrust and lack of confidence in its leadership. The role of SNZ’s high performance manager Jan Cameron has come under particular fire, to the point where one of the…

  • USA Swimming wins three Communicator awards

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    USA Swimming has been awarded three 2011 Communicator Awards by the International Academy of Visual Arts, earning accolades for its America’s Swim Team Marketing campaign, television commercial and re-designed website www.usaswimming.org. The 30-second America’s Swim Team commercial, which was produced and aired in 2010, received the Academy’s highest honor, the Gold Award of Excellence. Source…

  • DISC has great live streaming (Mare Nostrum has not)

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    Eagerly waiting for the Mare Nostrum 2011 to begin, I read in other news that the Vattenfall Swim Cup 2011 has started, aka the Danish International Swim Cup, with livetiming from both pools and HD live streaming from finals. Finals that are by the way very nicely dressed-up, with light-show and loud music and everything.

  • Is ASCA doing business fraudulently ?

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    Hard accusations here on curbnorthside.blogspot.com, concerning the business operations of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA), SwimAmerica, World Swimming Association (WSA), … ASCA is listed as a foreign corporation in Florida. Foreign, in corporation lingo, means not incorporated in the state. I originally had images of a corporation concealing their finances in Grand Cayman. It…