Swimmer's Daily

  • Amy Desir, 30, and another woman told the staff at Dulwich Leisure Centre in south London that they had every right to join the session because they ‘identified as male’.

  • We met up with swimmer, Alex Rosser who is representing Team Wales in this years Commonwealth Games!

  • Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski has confirmed they shot down an unauthorised drone flying close to a Commonwealth Games exclusion zone.

    The incident, which occurred yesterday, gave the the security operation put in place for the event an early test after Gold Coast 2018 chairman Peter Beattie claimed the “safest place in Australia during the Games is actually going to be in the Games”.

    The drone was not breaching the zone, Gollschewski said, but its operator has been reported to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

    Police were able to track the object through new technology established as part of security plans.

    “Last night we detected an unmanned aerial system that was within a few hundred metres of one of the prescribed exclusion zones,” said Gollschewski.

    “We were able to track down that operator and refer that matter to CASA for the breaches that have been committed by that person operating that unmanned aerial vehicle.

    “The message is there, leave your drone at home, we will detect them and we will take action.”

    Read Inside the Games

  • Questions remain as to whether medals won by US relay teams during the World Juniors last year will stand, after the international federation of swimming associations (FINA) sanctioned a team member with an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). FINA revealed that US college swimmer Matthew Willenbring has served a four month ban, after testing positive for hydrochlorothiazide at the World Juniors in Indianapolis on 28 August 2017. His sanction began on 19 October and FINA states that all results from 28 August 2017 will be annulled.

    It would therefore appear that the silver medal won by the US mixed 4x100m freestyle team at the World Juniors will stand despite the involvement of Willenbring, as that medal was won on 25 August. FINA’s site still lists the US men’s 4x100m medley relay team as gold medal winners despite the involvement of Willenbring in the final, which took place on 28 August. It also still lists Willenbring as bronze medal winner in the 100m freestyle, which also took pace on 28 August.

    Read The Sports Integrity Initiative

     

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  • A sea lion’s bark sounded a lot like a man’s cries for help, apparently.

    That’s what San Diego lifeguards determined might have been what a caller heard when they reported a man calling for help Saturday night.

    The call came in around 10:45 p.m. after a caller heard what was thought to be a man’s calls for help below La Jolla Cove.

    Lifeguards rushed to the scene where they also said they heard what sounded the man’s distress cries.

    Lifeguards performed several searches, complete with helicopters, and found no one, San Diego Fire-Rescue spokesperson Monica Munoz said.

    “They also heard the cries of sea lions and determined that was probably what the reporting party heard,” she said.

    Read NBC Los Angeles News

  • A good Samaritan is in critical condition after helping to save two children from drowning at Navarre Beach early Saturday evening.

    The children were having difficulty swimming after they went too far into the Gulf waters at about 6 p.m. Saturday. Two nearby surfers spotted the kids and were able to pull the children to safety, according to Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office. A third swimmer also jumped into action and was possibly caught in an undertow while trying to save one of the children.

    Rescue Teams from SRSO was able to pull that person from the water and deputies began CPR, but the swimmer had to be taken by helicopter to a local hospital in critical condition.

    Read Pensacola News Journal

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  • Svetlana Kolesnichenko was 13 years old when she was invited to join the Russian Junior National Team in Artistic Swimming. Ten years later she is an Olympic Champion and a multiple World and European Champion in Team Routine and a new solo star!

  • The 16-year-old student shot in the head at Great Mills High School in Maryland is being remembered for her love of swimming, snow and her family. Jaelynn Willey died late Thursday night, hours after her mother, Melissa Willey, announced that she would be taken off life support, saying, “She is brain dead and has nothing, no life left in her.” Willey was one of nine children and the second-oldest. InsideEdition.com’s Lisa Voyticki has more.

  • We met up with swimmer, Alys Thomas who is representing Team Wales in this years Commonwealth Games!