Swimmer's Daily

  • Sexual abuse happens in sport too. It is hard for children to talk. Video clip to call public authorities and the sport movement to give children a voice and stop child sexual abuse in sport. Produced by the Council of Europe with the support of the European Union in the framework of ProSafeSport . starttotalk.org

  • Members of the notorious “wolf pack” group convicted of sexually abusing a teenager have been forced to leave a swimming pool in Seville.

    The group have been the subject of public vitriol in Spainsince five of its members were sentenced to nine years in prison in April for sexual abuse.

    The men were cleared of rape and sentenced to the lesser charge after three judges found the victim was not intimidated and there was no violence against her. The decision became a national scandal and sparked widespread protests.

    Read Independent

  • Assistant Minister for Youth and Sports, Hon. Iliesa Delana was the chief guest and officiates at the opening of the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championship at Aquatic Centre, Suva.

  • It’s been just over a year since the Iraqi city of Mosul was liberated from the Islamic State group. Some 870,000 people have since returned to their hometown in a bid to rebuild their lives. Some are doing things that would have been unimaginable a year ago. One of them is Omar Ibrahim, a swimming instructor who is putting together a team of 12 young girls.

  • It was in 2014, following a second drink driving charge and a six-month suspension from USA Swimming, that Michael Phelps started to talk.

    It wasn’t easy at first. The 23-time Olympic gold medalist had suffered a downward spiral that had got so bad he confined himself to one room for five days.

    But talking has helped and Phelps — the most decorated Olympian of all time who retired after Rio 2016 — can now speak openly about his struggle with depression.

    “It’s a dark, dark road sometimes and you just want to make sure you are staying open,” 33-year-old Phelps tells CNN.

    “I’m very comfortable talking to my wife, I’m comfortable talking with a therapist … but in the beginning I wasn’t.”

    See CNN and People

  • Tokyo’s highest official is casting doubt on government plans to institute daylight savings time in 2019 and 2020 to help manage the scorching heat during the Summer Olympics.

    Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Monday that she was concerned about the expense and disruption of moving clocks forward by two hours during summer months for two years only. Koike told Bloomberg News that she also has heard apprehension expressed about the difficulty of introducing the measure in time for the Tokyo Games.

    “A lot of people are concerned about the cost and social instability caused by having it for just two years,” she said in an interview at her office, adding that she wasn’t opposed to a more permanent move. “Separately from the Olympics and Paralympics, I think it is worth considering.”

    While the city’s Olympic bid documents cited the region’s relatively “mild” summers, this year’s record high temperatures have sparked concerns about the safety of competitors and spectators in 2020. More than 80,000 people have been sent to the hospital with heat stroke this year, an 82 percent increase from last year. Some 144 have died, many of them elderly.

    That has prompted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to consider moving the country’s clocks forward for the next two summers, enabling more outdoor events to take place in the relatively cool morning hours, the Sankei newspaper reported earlier this month. Daylight savings was previously introduced in Japan under the postwar U.S. occupation, but quickly abandoned.

    Some 53 percent of Japanese adults opposed instituting daylight savings time, according to a survey released Monday by the ANN news network, compared with 36 percent who approved of the idea.

    Read Bloomberg

  • The FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships 2018 will welcome the world’s best junior open water swimmers! More than 300 girls and boys will compete from 6 to 9 September in Eilat, Israel!

  • Guests and staff were accidentally poisoned at a hotel in Disneyland Paris over a mix-up with chemicals in its swimming pool.

    The incident took place at the New York Hotel in Paris suburb Chessy, France, last Friday, with 22 people treated for nausea and breathing problems.

    Paris’ Le Parisian reports that the incident happened after bleach and sulphuric acid was added to the swimming pool.

    It’s reported that the chemicals were mixed incorrectly, causing chlorine gas to be released.

    When chlorine gas is breathed in it can cause swelling of the upper airway, coughing, sickness, chest pain and headaches.

    Emergency services were called, and four of the 22 people affected were sent to hospital.

    Read Fox News

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  • The International Olympic Committee has embarked on an ambitious strategic roadmap for the future: The Olympic Agenda 2020. It includes 40 recommendations that aim to make sure the games are clean and good governance measures are applied. In an exclusive interview with CNNMoney Switzerland, IOC President Thomas Bach says the committee is on track with the reforms, but that keeping political neutrality is a challenge. On the recent doping scandals, Bach says: “Doping will always happen. This is one of the wars you cannot win.” Bach also tells Martina Fuchs his view on whether or not eSports could become an Olympic discipline any time soon.