Swimmer's Daily

  • Beachgoers are being urged not to swim in the water at Lake Worth Beach due to elevated bacteria levels. The City of Lake Worth Beach issued the ‘no swim’ advisory at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

  • Front quadrant freestyle is what most elite distance swimmers use. It’s a great way for most swimmers who are new to the sport to learn as it helps with balance, breathing and timing. At clinics and camps, we see a number of faults in the stroke that make it difficult to swim front quadrant. In this video we’ll show you what they are.

  • A man trying to avoid gridlock traffic when President Donald Trump visited Aug. 1 decided to ditch his car and swim. That turned out to be a very bad idea.

  • Two-time Olympic swimmer Jarrod Poort is facing criminal charges stemming from allegations he damaged a unit door during a disturbance at a Wollongong apartment complex in the early hours of the morning.

    Poort, who represented Australia in the 1500 metre freestyle at the 2012 London Olympics and the 10km marathon in Rio De Janeiro in 2016, fronted Wollongong Local Court on Tuesday morning charged with one count each of unlawful entry onto enclosed lands and property damage. […]

    Poort’s swimming career took a dramatic turn in 2017, when he was banned for 12 months for failing to be available for drug testing while returning home from an event in Perth.

    Travelling overseas after competing at the 2016 Olympics, Poort twice failed to update testers of his whereabouts while in Europe, the third strike in Australia an automatic suspension.

    https://youtu.be/ONKqQviTkB4

  • Pet owners across the country are being warned about a potentially deadly toxic algae. Three dogs in North Carolina died last week after swimming in a pond that had blooms of blue-green algae. Anna Werner reports.

  • During the past 31 years, the Provincetown Swim for Life has become a major summer event.

    “It’s ingrained in the community,” says organizer Jay Critchley.

    But there’s a new player in the area, great white sharks, whose numbers are increasing steadily in the summer. And now, their presence has forced a change in the event, even though no white sharks have been spotted in Provincetown Harbor.

    “It’s been writing on the wall,” Critchley said. “It’s a serious concern. It’s not a major risk but the result would be a major catastrophe.”

    See CBS Boston

  • Up Close with Olympian World Record Holder, Stephanie Rice

    14 Quick Questions and intimate talk with 3 x Gold Medalist and 5 x World Record holder Stephanie Rice.

    She will inspire us to live healthy, positive lives and reflect with a mindful stretch.

  • Awesome experiences at my first long course Worlds in Gwangju, South Korea. Go behind the scenes in to the village, and competition venues. At the end of the edit I sit down and recap my experience and what I take away from the trip. Thanks for watching, see you soon.

  • Louisville launched a study nine months ago to examine the potential of adding a new indoor aquatic center.

    Officials said the city had “maxed out capacity” with existing options and wanted to look into luring regional and national meets.

    But an entirely different conversation has played out in the months since — dominated by an ill-fated tax hike proposal to fill the city’s looming budget hole and a spending plan with $25.5 million in cuts.

    Instead of talking about building a new aquatic center, city officials discussed keeping outdoor pools closed for the summer, further depleting a city that’s already described as “pool poor.” (Three of four stayed dry and one other opened for a portion of the summer, funded in large part by one councilwoman’s discretionary fund.)

    Now, though, city officials say they’re poised to renew discussions about the study and are ready to have a larger discussion about pools and other recreational offerings, like slides or play features.

    Read Courier Journal