Swimmer's Daily

  • The big names starred on the opening day of ISL action in Dallas

     

  • If they couldn’t recover the servers by the next morning, the entire IT backend of the organizing committee—responsible for everything from meals to hotel reservations to event ticketing—would remain offline as the actual games got underway. And a kind of technological fiasco that had never before struck the Olympics would unfold in one of the world’s most wired countries

    Read Wired

     

  • Paris has prohibited swimming in the Seine since 1923, although the ban is enforced only haphazardly. Today, the river is heavily polluted and swimmers face health hazards from chemical waste and bacterial infections. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised the Seine will be clean enough to host open-water swimming events in the 2024 Olympics. Will the city of Paris be able to achieve this lofty goal?

    This video is part of a series that accompanies Ms. Sciolino’s new book:

    The Seine: River That Made Paris
    October 29, 2019

  • Right here you’ll find how Sarens approached and executed the construction of an Olympic Swimming pool in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. Urban construction projects typically have different challenges to those on remote industrial sites, which tend to be less confined and therefore less limiting for the lifting team in terms of techniques that can be used and the size of equipment. For this project, we chose to deploy a Demag 2800.1 as the main crane with an 84m main boom and equipped with superlift. The crane’s 600T lifting capacity meant that we were able to use a lifting radius of up to 70m to mitigate the constrained space around the site.

  • French swimmer Fantine Lesaffre spoke to CGTN after she won the Women’s 400-meter Individual Medley at Wuhan Military World Games.

  • Celtics rookie Tacko Fall is hitting a Boston pool to learn how to swim — all 7 feet, 7 inches of him.

    Fall, the team’s new center, spent some time at the Charlestown Boys and Girls Club Friday learning how to float with two teammates.

    This is only the second time Fall has tried swimming, and he says he’s getting better.

    “I just feel more comfortable, I’m not as scared this time,” Fall said. “I’m just going with the flow.”

    See 7News Boston

  • A Georgia swimming pool technician got quite the surprise Friday after finding a gator swimming laps.

    The technician said they were servicing a homeowner’s swimming pool in St. Simons Island when the gator was found.

    The gator is said to be a repeat offender who visited the pool a few weeks ago but disappeared.

    See First Coast News

  • According to Friendswood ISD Superintendent Thad Roher, he will try pretty much anything to get closer to the students in his district.

  • “Miss Mitchell” told the boys there was a better pool they could swim in, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings remembered later.

    He was 11 years old, and he and his friends were getting too big for the small, shallow public pool where they had been spending the summer of 1962.

    “As a matter of fact, it was so small, we had to wait turns to get in,” the Maryland Democrat, who died Thursday at 68, told the Baltimore Sun in July.

    But there was another pool, Miss Mitchell said. Riverside Park Pool in South Baltimore was Olympic-size, with a deep end. And it was open to the public — theoretically. In practice, it had yet to be integrated.

    Over several days that August, Cummings and a group of two dozen African American boys marched to the swimming pool and jumped in.

    Crowds of angry white residents, sometimes numbering 1,000, according to Sun coverage at the time, surrounded them. They held signs saying “Keep Our Pool Germ Free” and “White People Have Rights Too.”

    “And these were adults,” Cummings remembered. They “called us every name you can imagine, everything but a child of God.”

    They also shouted, “Go back to where you came from” — something Cummings recalled last summer as President Trump attacked him, attacked Baltimore and attacked freshman congresswomen of color with a similar “go back” expression.

    The mob surrounded the pool, held back by a line of police with K-9 dogs, while the kids tried to splash and play. Then, over the police officers’ heads, the mob threw rocks and bottles. One of them hit Cummings in the face, cutting his eyebrow and leaving a scar he carried all his life.

    Read The Washington Post