Swimmer's Daily

  • Residents take a swim in icy Connecticut River water to raise money for charity

  • Olympic and World champion Shi Tingmao of China suffered a rare upset in her favorite 3m springboard while Cao Yuan celebrated his third title at the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series 2019 in Beijing (CHN) on Friday, March 8.

  • Authorities are trying to locate a rogue swimmer after reports of an illegal dip that potentially devastated the Banff hot spring habitat of a highly endangered snail.

    Despite warning signs around the pool in the Cave and Basin National Historic Site, park officials believe a rogue bather entered the water on Sunday Mar. 3.

    His action disturbed a thin membrane of organic material on the water’s surface which is invaluable to the survival of the Banff Springs snail.

    “There was destruction and damage to their critical habitat including the microbial mat,” Dr. Dwayne Lepitzki, a conservation biologist who studies the snails, told CTV Calgary.

    “There could have been a few individuals that died but we’ll never be able to know exactly how many died.”

    According to researchers the rare snail population has at times been fewer than 100.

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  • Set to open in Poway on March 18th, The Florence pays tribute to legendary swimmer Florence Chadwick. Florence May Chadwick was an American swimmer known for long-distance open water swimming.

    She was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions, setting a time record each time. She was also the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bosporus, and the Dardanelles.

    On International Women’s Day, News 8’s Ashley Jacobs takes you inside the restaurant before anyone else. Speaking with Legal Restaurants Partner Nick Sanderson, she learns so much about the athlete and shares it as he gives a tour of the new space, pointing out trophies, old photos, even her swimsuit!

    Executive Chef Ricardo Heredia plates several dishes, explaining how Chadwick inspired each one.

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  • Summer registrations are now open for the beautiful and popular Hamilton Pool Preserve.

    Located in Dripping Springs, the Hamilton Pool Preserve was designated a nature preserve by the Travis County Commissioner’s Court in 1990. According to the county’s parks website, it is located upstream from the Pedernales River.

    “Hamilton Creek spills out over limestone outcroppings to create a 50-foot waterfall as it plunges into the head of a steep box canyon. The waterfall never completely dries up, but in dry times it does slow to a trickle. However, the pool’s water level stays pretty constant, even during periods of drought.”

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  • When you hear that your next race is a deep water start it can be a a daunting proposition. Mark is here to take you through a deep water start masterclass so you can ace it!

  • This week we are transitioning our ‘How To’ series towards Butterfly. The first thing that we wanted to cover in regards to butterfly is the breath, responsible for so many swimmers hating the stroke due to poor body alignment and strength. Today, we fix that!

  • We asked European and Commonwealth Champion diver Grace Reid what it means to her to be a woman in sport and what she hopes she can achieve through her successes…

  • New York’s stand for LGBTQ bathroom rights in North Carolina is being felt by some SUNY student athletes.

    The good news for the 13 swimmers and divers is that they qualified for the national Division III swimming and diving championships.

    The bad news is the meet is in Greensboro, N.C., and New York bars unnecessary travel to the state. The athletes from three SUNY schools – Geneseo, Brockport and Cortland – are being allowed to attend the meet, but they cannot fly into or stay in hotels in North Carolina.

    That means most will fly into Roanoke, Va., and stay in a hotel about an hour’s drive from the aquatics center. They will have no place to rest each day between preliminaries in the morning and finals in the evening, unless they drive back to the hotel 50 miles away. The meet takes place March 20-23.

    And that did not sit well with state Sen. Patrick Gallivan, R- Elma, when he heard about it. His district includes Geneseo.

    “Besides being stupid, there’s no doubt it puts them at a competitive disadvantage,” he said.

    Competition at this level is tight, and in an event like the 50-yard freestyle, the difference between first place and 20th place is fractions of a second.

    Gallivan is calling on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to reconsider his executive order and allow the students to stay in North Carolina to fully participate in the event.

    North Carolina passed the bill in 2016 that required people at government-operated facilities to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate, which would not allow a transgender person to use the restroom of the gender he or she identifies and lives as.

    After the bill passed, a number of companies said they would not do business in the state, other states banned travel to North Carolina, and the NCAA pulled its championships out of the state. A year later, the state legislature repealed the controversial bill, but it also prevented local governments from passing non-discrimination laws on bathroom access until 2020. The new bill has been challenged in court for discriminating against the LGBTQ community.

    Cuomo’s executive order bars publicly funded or publicly sponsored travel to North Carolina. SUNY schools do not foot the bill for attending the championships, but are reimbursed for airfare, hotels and food by the NCAA, according to Gallivan and one of the coaches.

    But the governor is holding to the ban.

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