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  • We’ve reached the halfway stage of the British Swimming Championships 2019 – catch day three’s heats racing from 10am. #BSC19

    Events:

    • W 50 Freestyle
    • M 400 Individual Medley
    • W 200 Butterfly
    • M 100 Freestyle
    • M 1500 Freestyle

  • Day two is set to a busy night of British Swimming Championships action with 19 races on the bill – tune in from 6pm for all the build with Deep End Live and racing from 6:30 pm. #BSC19

    Events:

    • W 800 Freestyle – Fastest Heat
    • M 50 Breaststroke – Junior
    • M 50 Breaststroke – Transition
    • M 50 Breaststroke – Open
    • W 50 Butterfly – Junior
    • W 50 Butterfly – Transition
    • W 50 Butterfly – Open
    • M 200 Butterfly – Junior
    • M 200 Butterfly – Transition
    • M 200 Butterfly – Open
    • W 100 Backstroke – Junior
    • W 100 Backstroke – Transition
    • W 100 Backstroke – Open
    • M 100 Backstroke – Junior
    • M 100 Backstroke – Transition
    • M 100 Backstroke – Open
    • W 200 Breaststroke – Junior
    • W 200 Breaststroke – Transition
    • W 200 Breaststroke – Open

  • A dog found swimming more than 220 kilometers (135 miles) from shore by workers on an oil rig crew in the Gulf of Thailand has been returned safely to land.

    A worker on the rig belonging to Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Vitisak Payalaw, said on his Facebook page that they saw the dog swimming toward the platform last Friday. He said they were lucky to spot it because if there had been waves it probably would not have been visible.

    The dog made it to the platform, clinging to the support structure below deck without barking or whimpering, Vitisak wrote.

    See TIME

  • Swimming SA (SSA) is looking into why so few of the nation’s swimmers based in the US are failing to convert to elite level‚ national coach Graham Hill said on Monday.

    Nine swimmers qualified for the world championships during the national trials in Durban last week.

    The good news is that four of them were women‚ and every single one is trained locally — not one of the American females made the cut-off to get to the international showpiece in Gwangju‚ South Korea.

    Of the five male qualifiers‚ three are in the US.

    “We are looking at how many swimmers we’ve got in America‚ and when they left us what condition they were in‚” said Hill.

    “When they come back they’re not stepping up to the next level and that doesn’t add up for me.”

    Olympic medallists Penny Heyns and Marianne Kriel were among the last batch of US-based women to qualify for the Olympics.

    The SA women who qualified for Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were all trained locally (no women qualified in 2004 and 2016).

    Roland Schoeman‚ Ryk Neethling and Lyndon Ferns‚ all medallists at Athens 2004‚ were the last US-based men to win silverware for SA.

    Read Sowetan Live

  • 14 year-old Haven Shepherd (United States of America) survived a suicide bombing when she was a baby. Now she is a Paralympic hopeful, with her sights set on competing in Para swimming at the Tokyo 2020 or Paris 2024 Paralympics. This is her story.

  • Join me in Richmond, Virginia as I get ready to race in the 3rd Pro Series of 2019! A bit of a travel vlog, ending with everything I take to a swim meet with me.

  • Fitch’s John Marcolina is The Day’s All-Area Boys’ Swimmer of the Year.

  • Madisyn Cox, a world-class competitive swimmer and former member of the U.S. National Swim Team, has filed a lawsuit against an affiliate of the well-known Dallas-based Cooper Clinic for negligently producing and selling its Cooper Complete Elite Athlete multivitamin, which was subsequently found to contain a banned substance.

    In March of 2018, Ms. Cox was initially slapped with a two-year suspension from competition by FINA, the global sanctioning body for swimming and diving, after routine blood and urine tests found trace amounts of trimetazidine in her system. The substance is used as a heart medication outside of the U.S. but is not approved for sale in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration.

    Although her suspension was reduced when the source of the banned drug was identified, and Ms. Cox was cleared to resume competing in September 2018, she still faces significant reputational, financial and emotional consequences. Ms. Cox was forced to miss several major events and to return fees, grants and prizes from the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Swimming, and was unable to pursue lucrative corporate sponsorships.

    In addition to that lost income, Ms. Cox and her family incurred considerable expense in hiring several medical and legal experts to seek the source of the banned substance and a complete revocation of her suspension.

    Testing by a World Anti-Doping Agency accredited laboratory last summer found that both a sealed bottle of the Cooper Complete vitamin Ms. Cox had purchased, and the unsealed bottle of the Cooper Complete vitamin Ms. Cox was taking at the time of her positive test, contained trimetazidine. Ms. Cox had taken the multivitamin to correct low levels of iron in her blood, never suspecting it could contain a banned substance.

    Read PR Newswire

     

  • Paedo hunters protested outside a waterpark offering a nude family swimming session for children and adults.

    Owner Mo Chaudry was accused of “encouraging paedophiles” when he offered a two-hour session allowing people to swim in the buff.

    Yesterday, protesters gathered outside Waterworld in Festival Park, Stoke on Trent arguing the nude swimming event should be for over 18s only. They claimed it was wrong to take children because they are unable to give consent and said there are no background checks to get into the session – which organisers have denied.

    Natasha Whitlock and Susan Quinn, from Facebook paedo hunter group Paddy’s Exposure, said the event was “wrong on so many levels”, Stoke on Trent Live reports.

    ‘IT’S IMMORAL’ The pair added: “It’s exposing kids, anyone can buy tickets online and CCTV cameras won’t pick up everything.

    “If my children were young I’d never take them to a nudist swim, it should be 18 plus because the children can’t give consent. They will be scarred for life.”

    Read Aquatics International

    Photo by Thomas Tolkien