Swimmer's Daily

  • A sister and her two brothers drowned in a lake in France on Sunday during a deadly weekend in French waters forcing authorities to once again warn the public about the dangers of swimming this summer.

    Three children from the same family died on Sunday after drowning in an artificial lake (see below) in the town of Chalon-sur-Saône in eastern France.

    The three, a girl aged nine and her two brothers aged 10 and 13, had wanted to simply cool their legs in the lake but slipped down the steep bank into the water and were unable to get back out, according to reports in the French press.

    The three, who reports say did not know how to swim, spent around an hour in the water where the temperature was just 10C.

    Paramedics were called to scene but they were unable to resuscitate the three children.

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  • Thai officials said Tuesday divers had begun their third trip into the cave in the hopes of bringing out the remaining five people trapped in the cave. Mauritius Bell, a diving instructor with San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, joins CBSN to discuss what is involved with the rescue.

  • A source has confirmed to the BBC that four more boys have been brought out of the cave complex today

  • Watch Team Australia’s Synchronised Swimming performance to Nightwish’s “Last Ride of the Day” at the Olympic Summer Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Tainui swimmer Lewis Clareburt won the supreme Swimmer of the Year award at the Swimming New Zealand Awards at the weekend.
    He was also the recipient of the International Swimmer of the Year award.

    It’s been a very successful past 6 months for the 18-year-old who won bronze at the Commonwealth Games in April. Earlier this month, he also made his mark at the New Zealand Open Swimming Champs.

    There’s no resting for Clareburt, who’s off to compete overseas at the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo next month.

    “It’s a pretty high standard competition to be able to reach the standard to qualify,” says Clareburt.

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  • Thai officials said Monday the second phase of the rescue of the boys and their coach trapped in a cave is underway. Despite being in the rainy season, it’s actually dry. CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy reports from Chiang Rai, Thailand.

    https://youtu.be/ARxTDNjtkPI

  • The swim coach of Seguin High School in Arlington, Texas, says you can’t overstate the underachievement of his school’s swim team; he measures success by his athletes not getting disqualified. So when Gerald Hodges – a pretty-good athlete who couldn’t swim – joined up, it was because he couldn’t bear not being good at something. Steve Hartman talked with Hodges about how he was able to measure success in the final lap.

  • Great job by these guards! They work together to get control of a difficult situation.

  • First boys recovered from Thailand cave after soccer team and coach become trapped.