Swimmer's Daily

  • Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin was competing in French Polynesia when she was served traditional Polynesian poke.

    “Every single place we went — French swimmers, European swimmers, local swimmers and us — they gave us Polynesian poke,” Coughlin said. “It was so good… One of the last days I was there, someone showed me how to make it.”

    That recipe is one of many in her first cookbook “Cook to Thrive: Recipes to Fuel Body and Soul,” released earlier this year. She describes it as “a little bit of everything.”

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  • Some swim centers in the Twin Cities have lessons for kids as young as four months.

    New guidelines suggest kids start swimming lessons as early as one

  • Despite its upsides, very few people would likely call parenting an easy or straightforward task. Just ask Michael Phelps and his wife Nicole.

    The spouses pose for the cover and inside the pages of Parents magazine‘s July issue, where they talk water safety, preparing for baby No. 3 on the wayand how life has changed since they welcomed sons Beckett Richard, 15 months, and Boomer Robert, 3 — who joined them for the pool photo shoot.

    “I have to give myself time,” Nicole, 33, says of what keeps her sane as a soon-to-be mom of three. “There is always guilt, no matter what — do the laundry, clean the sink, put away the kids’ stuff — but if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that it will all be there later, but the time for me to be a healthy parent and a healthy wife is right now.”

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  • Meanwhile, staff at Eugene public pools are preparing for summer swim classes that start June 17.

    Swimmers can't wait for new Cottage Grove pool

  • As pool and beach season gets underway safety experts remind water lovers not to have a false sense of security because a lifeguard is on duty or because they know how to swim.

    The World Congress on Drowning states that an estimated 66% of the more than 360,000 people who drown worldwide each year knew how to swim, said Dave Benjamin, executive director of the nonprofit Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project (www.glsrp.org).

    People who know how to swim assume that means they can’t drown, Benjamin said.

    That explains why people take risks, such as swimming alone or beyond their physical capability, and why so often would-be rescuers become drowning victims, he said.

    As beaches and pools open for the season, he reminds patrons that in June beach water is cold and visitors likely haven’t been swimming for months.

    “Their swimming endurance may be down,” even if their confidence is not, he said.

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  • An information station is located at Port Washington’s North Beach and is the first of-its-kind technology.

    Port Washington takes actions to keep swimmers safe from rip current

  • A horrific swimming pool accident left a teenager without her intestines and unable to eat food for the last 10 years. When she was five-years-old, Salma Bashir was playing in a baby swimming pool in Alexandria, Egypt. She sat on the pool’s suction valve and the force was so strong that it ripped her small intestines from her body. Given just weeks to live Salma’s parents travelled with their young family to Pennsylvania, USA for life-saving surgery. Salma was then on a waiting list for a transplant and after a year and a half of waiting, she had the surgery that her family believed would be the start of the rest of Salma’s life. Instead the small intestines transplant rejected and after six months it had to be removed along with Salma’s large intestines and gallbladder; her stomach also had to remain open. Salma now receives all her nutrients via a TPN tube. Hopes for a future transplant are slim – the estimated cost of the five-organ transplant are $3 million but that’s not stopping Salma for giving it everything she’s got: the chatty teen has raised $15,000 already on her Gofundme page, while her makeup channel is a chance for Salma to escape her daily pain and discomfort.

    Click here to support Salma’s GoFundMe page: https://uk.gofundme.com/salma039s-dre…

  • Olympic gold medalist and holistic nutrition specialist Anita Nall-Richesson shares her thoughts on the best advice for the parents of a swimmer.