Swimmer's Daily

  • The temperature in Winston-Salem, N.C., crested at 90 degrees on July 4 — the same day Jasmine Edwards and her son, both African Americans, sought the cool waters of the pool in their private community.

    Adam Bloom was there, too, confident in his charge of helping enforce neighborhood rules as the ‘pool chair’ of the Glenridge Homeowners Association. He asked Edwards to show identification to prove she belonged. Then he called the police.

    And the four of them — two officers, Edwards and Bloom — stood outside the pool gate, unsure how the latest incident of police response to public blackness would unfold.

    Read for instance The New York Times and The Washington Post

    https://youtu.be/L6dvG5RKOf0

  • Charges have been laid against Ports of Auckland Ltd and one of its staff after the death of ocean swimmer Leslie Gelberger.

    Gelberger died on April 20 last year after going for a swim on Auckland’s North Shore.

    A passing ferry found his body, which was missing a leg, about 4pm the next day.

    Gelberger – a husband, father, teacher and keen ocean swimmer – was believed to have been hit by a boat, and his body was found floating off Mairangi Bay.

    Read NZ Herald
    Photo by russellstreet

  • James Cameron has provided an update on the status of his numerous Avatar sequels – and revealed the extent to which cast addition Kate Winslet went to pull off her new role.

    The filmmaker, who is currently filming the first and second of the four planned follow-ups, teased that his forthcoming return to the world of Pandora will explore “never before seen parts” which will primarily be set underwater.

    Considering this aspect of the next two films – Cameron attributed the sequels’ delay to spending over a year-and-a-half working out how to pull off underwater motion-capture technology – one scene required Winslet to be able to hold her breath for a staggering seven minutes, something the Oscar-winner nailed.

    Read the Independent

    https://youtu.be/iP5KuFxfAn0

  • How to become a mermaid? We provide insights behind the scenes of the set and show you scenes that nobody else sees. Totally exciting, let’s see, how such a spin works!

  • Rescuers are ready to begin an operation to bring 12 boys and their soccer coach out of a cave in Thailand. They’ve been trapped in a flooded cave in the north of the country since June 23.

  • Kolesnikov: two golds in 50min, shared gold for Large and Shkurdai

    Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov set two new CRs while doubling down the 50m and 200m back on Day 4 at the LEN European Junior Swimming Championships in Helsinki. Germany joined the circle of the title-winning nations just as Belarus, the latter’s win came after a tie in the women’s 100m fly.

    Podium KOLESNIKOV Kliment RUS Gold Medal MARTIN Daniel-Cristian ROU Silver Medal MITYUKOV Roman SUI Bronze Medal 200 Backstroke Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland MŠkelŠnrinne Swimming Centre Day04 07-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium GOSE Isabel Marie GER Gold Medal KESELY Ajna HUN Silver Medal NEVMOVENKO Polina RUS Bronze Medal 200 Freestyle Women Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland MŠkelŠnrinne Swimming Centre Day04 07-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium LARGE Emily GBR Gold Medal SHKURDAI Anastasiya BLR Gold Medal BAROCSAI Petra HUN Bronze Medal 200 Butterfly Women Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland MŠkelŠnrinne Swimming Centre Day04 07-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium KALMAR Akos HUN Gold Medal BEAUGRAND Paul FRA Silver Medal CALLONI Johannes ITA Bronze Medal 800 Freestyle Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland MŠkelŠnrinne Swimming Centre Day04 07-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium ANDERSON Freya GBR Gold Medal KLEVANOVICH Elizaveta RUS Silver Medal FIEDKIEWICZ Kornelia POL Bronze Medal 50 Freestyle Women Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland MŠkelŠnrinne Swimming Centre Day04 07-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium KOLESNIKOV Kliment RUS Gold Medal SCHAEFFNER Michael GER Silver Medal BOLLIN Thierry Frederic SUI Bronze Medal 50 Backstroke Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland MŠkelŠnrinne Swimming Centre Day04 07-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium Russian Federation RUS Gold Medal Team Great Britain GBR Silver Medal Team Germany GER Bronze Medal 4X100 Medley Mixed Relay Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland MŠkelŠnrinne Swimming Centre Day04 07-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

    Kliment Kolesnikov enjoyed a busy afternoon as the Russian backstroker genius had to swim the 50m semis first at 17.06, then came the 200m final from 18.01 and soon the final of the dash at 18.54. He completed his daily job in style as he set new CRs on all three occasions and bagged both golds to complete his backstroke treble. This time he left no chance for Romania’s Daniel-Cristian Martin who forced a tie in the 100m on Day 2 – Kolesnikov gained 2.54sec on his rival.

    And Helsinki witnessed another shared gold: Emily Large (GBR) and Anastasia Shkurdai (BLR) hit the wall simultaneously in the 100m fly and the timekeeping device couldn’t record a bigger difference than 0.009sec. The Brits grabbed another title in the afternoon, Freya Anderson managed to beat Elizaveta Klemanovich (RUS) again after them 100m free, this time only 0.08sec separated them in the 50m.

    Germany, the No 2 nation in the all-time ranks (with the GDR medal haul they would be first) claimed its first title here (note they had a fine day with five medals altogether). It was an upset as Marie Isabel Gose could pass Hungary’s Ajna Kesely in the closing metres and won by 0.1sec in the 200m free. Thus Kesely’s amazing winning run came to an end: since 2016 she won 11 connective individual finals, including the previous two titles in this event, this time she had to settle for the silver (her SF swim in the 200m IM 30min earlier could have an effect).

    The Magyars didn’t remain without gold this day either, though, Akos Kalmar added the 800m title to the 1500m with another convincing performance. Still, the RUS v HUN duel seems to have already been decided as the Russians took a 13-9 lead in the golden race since Kolesnikov’s double was followed by the mixed medley relay’s triumph which came with a new junior European Record.

    Champions, Day 4

    Men
    800m free: Akos Kalmar (HUN) 7:55.41
    50m back: Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS) 24.52 C3
    200m back: Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS) 1:55.83 CR

    Women
    100m free: Freya Anderson (GBR) 25.35
    200m free: Marie Isabel Gose (GER) 1:58.17
    100m fly: Emily Large (GBR) & Anastasia Shkurdai (BLR) 59.37

    Mixed
    4x100m medley: Russia 3:47.99 EJR
    (Daria Vaskina, Vladislav Gerasimenko, Andrei Minakov, Elizaveta Klemanovich)

    Medal standings

    RUS 13 8 3
    HUN 9 2 4
    GBR 6 3 2
    ISR 2 0 0
    GER 1 8 3
    ROU 1 1 0
    BLR 1 0 0
    ITA 0 2 8
    POL 0 1 1
    DEN 0 1 0
    FRA 0 1 0
    LAT 0 1 0
    NOR 0 1 0
    NED 0 0 2
    SUI 0 0 2
    AUT 0 0 1
    MLD 0 0 1
    LTU 0 0 1
    SLO 0 0 1
    TUR 0 0 1
    UKR 0 0 1

     

    For detailed results and free live streaming please visit www.len.eu

    Press release from LEN, photos courtesy of Deepbluemedia/Andrea Masini

  • In Miami, the rising sea is already an ineluctable part of daily life. Everyone is affected—whether storm flooding forces a small-business owner to shut down for a few days (at tremendous cost), or daily tides hinder students commuting to school, or the retreating coastline forces people to abandon their homes. There are other, less obvious, but equally troubling impacts. People’s increased contact with overflow water from urban canals and sewers is a significant health issue. Low-income communities of color—like Liberty City and Little Haiti—also face rising housing costs as residents seek higher ground. Some have started referring to this as climate gentrification, “a trend of underserved communities being taken over by investors and developers due to rising sea levels,” Valencia Gunder, a community organizer, explained. Historically, “low-income communities of color were forced to live in the center of the city, high above sea level. Now that the sea level is rising, that puts us in prime real estate.” Gunder is one of the many Miami residents who appear in this video series, which focusses on the high-stakes questions that arise as people begin to adapt, and the factors that help create and strengthen resiliency for what’s ahead. “Every adaptation project is an opportunity to improve our environmental quality,” Tiffany Troxler, a wetlands biologist, said. “And to improve social equity.”

    Read The New Yorker

  • Unguarded swimming areas include ponds, rivers, and lakes.

  • Ken Keegan has body-surfed along the Santa Cruz coast for years but he said Friday’s crashing waves and rip currents took him by surprise. Maria Medina reports. (7-6-18)