Swimmer's Daily

  • A Roanoke Valley swim school has had to cancel classes until the partial government shutdown ends.

    Aquatic Adventures Swim School, which serves more than 200 students, decided to replace its pool over Christmas break so it wouldn’t affect classes. The new pool, which was shipped from Korea, made it to customs Dec. 19, 2018, but now it’s stuck there. Officials say they can’t release the pool until the shutdown is over because Homeland Security is operating on a smaller staff.

    Now, Aquatic Adventures has had to cancel its classes and put contractors on hold.

    “We are doing everything we can to get up and get swimming as soon as possible. My instructors are being in the water. We’re missing seeing the kids,” said Mary Kerr, owner of Aquatic Adventures.

    See WSLS

  • The chick entrusted to the care of Sydney’s same-sex penguin couple learns how to swim!

  • I don’t understand the title, but the message is strong :-)

    “Keep an eye on them.”

  • Don’t miss this student produced story on BAHS swimmers and sisters Rachel and Annie Kramer. Sports media students Chris Mickelson and Adam Burch sat down with the sisters to get their thoughts on what it’s like competing together and much more. Check it out!

  • One Delta Police officer is helping to raise money for a woman with brain cancer by taking park in a 12-hour swimming marathon. Travis Prasad reports.

  • You’re probably familiar with instagram accounts that have crazy cool drone footage of city landscapes, but what about the world beneath the waves? Navatics’ MITO is here to make underwater photos and videos more accessible, at a $1,499 price tag. Check out our video to learn more about how this aquatic drone can improve your shots on or in the water.

    See Mashable

  • Former national swimmer, Clement Lim, shares his personal journey with Ankylosing Spondylitiis (AS) to raise awareness of the condition.

  • A Libyan migrant was rescued in waters near Malta on Friday after he jumped off an aid ship, attempting to swim toward the shore of the island.

    The migrant, whose identity remains unknown, was rescued by sailors and rescuers from the Sea-Watch 3.

    He jumped in the water while several German Members of Parliament and some journalists were on board to assess the health conditions of the migrants.

    The German aid group operating Sea-Watch 3 says 32 migrants were rescued from a human trafficker’s boat on December 22 and another vessel later rescued 17 others.

    The Sea-Watch 3 had been appealing for days for a safe port to disembark the rescued migrants.

    The aid group tweeted on Thursday it was a few nautical miles from Malta’s coasts and had permission to seek shelter from the storm.

    It said European Union officials were trying to find countries which would accept the migrants. Malta and Italy have refused to accept migrants rescued by private groups.

  • For eight days every four years, the sport of swimming takes center stage at the Olympics and its top athletes often become household names, if only for a few nights. A well-heeled Ukrainian businessman who is convinced swimming can do better has ambitious plans to launch a professional league that he says will better showcase the sport and compensate the world’s best swimmers.

    But the nascent International Swimming League [ISL] has faced harsh resistance from FINA, the sport’s international governing body, which has blocked the start-up’s efforts by threatening swimmers’ Olympic eligibility. The dispute has prompted a federal antitrust lawsuit, sparked discussions around the pool deck about labor organizing and has cast a spotlight on the tilted economics that long have ruled the sport.

    “Swimmers have the same level of talent like NBA players or soccer players, sometimes even more. But a swimmer who has talent like LeBron James receives 1,000 times less money,” said Konstantin Grigorishin, the ISL’s chief backer and financier. “We have to fix this.”

    Read The Washington Post