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  • A 13-year-old boy is dead after drowning at the Folcroft Swim Club hours after it closed. Police say he was part of a small group of teens who were “pool hopping” in Delaware County before the tragic accident. […]

    They slipped the gated fence at the swim club and started playing on floats in the deep end.

    But the fun quickly turned to panic after the 13-year-old boy apparently tried to jump off the high diving board onto a float.

    “The subject who is the victim was going to jump off and use that as he came in but landed on the other witness and the float went away from everybody,” Bair said, “and then I guess it became a scramble.”

    Police say since the other three boys couldn’t swim and help their friend, they ran away.

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  • One man has died after his car crashed through a fence and plunged into a swimming pool in Plum Wednesday morning.

    The red Chevy Cobalt, driven by 49-year-old William Gibson, crashed into the in-ground swimming pool along Carrie Ann Road at Repp Road just after 7:30 a.m.

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  • Controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has broken his silence after the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s announcement that his doping case had been postponed.

    On Wednesday night, the triple Olympic gold medallist posted on the Weibo social media platform a picture taken of him at the world championships. Above the picture was a message: “Under the water I want to be faster and stronger; above the water I want to own the strongest heart”.

    Chinese media and fans interpreted it as Sun wanting to persevere in the pool and be resolute in the face of criticism as he waits for the court hearing, which is now unlikely to take place before the end of October. Sun’s lawyers earlier successfully requested that the hearing be an open process “in order to be fully transparent and to clear his name”.

    Read South China Morning Post

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  • British Swimming is proud to be supported by UP&GO, who are the Official Breakfast Partner of the national governing body for aquatics. Find out more at http://bit.ly/upandgoBreakfast

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  • Crews recovered the body of an 18-year-old who went missing after trying to swim across the Youghiogheny River.

  • Robbie Eckert ended his life last year, he was a swimmer, a great student and had lots of friends. Just days after his death, his parents started Robbie’s Hope, a foundation guided by teens.

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  • FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2019 take place from 20th to 25th August in Budapest. On day 2 of the competition, we spoke to Mitch Dalton, Team Manager of USA. Dalton knows, that all athletes are highly intrinsically motivated and the competitions during the upcoming days will very be tough.

  • Watch all the best dives from the fifth stop of Red Bull Cliff Diving 2019.

    Reigning champions Gary Hunt (GBR) and Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) continue to dominate with commanding wins in Lebanon debut of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series from the Raouché.

    Gary Hunt scored the perfect dive in his 77th appearance and became the first man ever to be awarded all tens from the judges since the introduction of the World Series in 2009. The Brit was at his brilliant best in a brand new off-the-cliff competition in Lebanon, with a wide-margin victory ahead of second-placed David Colturi of America, and Romanian wildcard Catalin Preda in third.

    It was also a record breaking competition in the women’s as Rhiannan Iffland powered past Mexico’s Adriana Jimenez by more than 54 points to remain unbeaten in 2019, while Belarusian Yana Nestsiaravacompleted the podium in third. 12,000 spectators watched on as the World Series hit new grounds and set new standards off the coast of Beirut’s neighbourhood of Raouché.