Category: Safety
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Swimmer swept over Yosemite waterfall
See CNN Park rangers will resume their search Monday for a teenage swimmer who was swept over a nearly 600-foot waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park over the weekend. Aleh Kalman had been swimming about 150 feet from the edge of the Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon when he was caught up in the swift…
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Australian swimmers call for calm after president Nettlefold’s resignation
Read ABC Grandstand Sport Australian Olympic swimmers have expressed hopes that the sport’s latest controversy will not affect sponsors or preparations for next month’s World Championships. […Â ] Olympic silver medallist Brenton Rickard said on Monday that the Australian squad needed to remain focussed on the championships, which will be held in Barcelona. “Obviously it could…
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Mark Foster learned to swim because his dad couldn’t
Former six times world champion swimmer Mark Foster has told Daybreak he learnt to swim because his father was “petrified of water”.
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Geoff Huegill on the crisis in Australian Swimming
Swimming Australia boss Barclay Nettlefold has resigned from his post over inappropriate comments to a staffer. Olympian Geoff Huegill discusses.
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Prince William Backs Learn To Swim Campaign
See for instance Shropshire Star The Duke of Cambridge has recorded a video message in support of the Amateur Swimming Association’s (ASA) vision that every child has the right to learn to swim. William outlines the importance of children being confident in water in his message which follows an ASA report that claims more than…
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Swimming Australia inquiry called off as president Nettlefold resigns
Swimming Australia has sunk to a new low, with its president today resigning in disgrace after lewd comments he made to colleagues surfaced. There is obviously bad blood between the parties involved as Nettlefold describes the matter as ‘a personality attack on me […] that needs to be dealt with too’, while Swimming Australia CEO…
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Duncan Goodhew coaches youngsters at new pool in Chester-le-Street
Read Sunderland Echo Former Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew gave youngsters a coaching session to mark the refurbishment of their pool. The pool, at Chester-le-Street Leisure Centre, is now more energy efficient after British Gas upgraded the building’s heating and lighting. Duncan, 56, whose son is studying at Northumbria University, said: “Modernised heating and ventilation means…
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Swim Ontario bans club ignoring ban on coach Cecil Russell
Read The Star Cecil Russell was banned for life — twice — from coaching swimmers because of his involvement in illegal steroid and ecstasy rings. During a 1997 murder trial he admitted to helping burn the body of a dead drug associate. But none of it stopped him from coaching his own talented children —…