Swimmer's Daily

  • Laura Marino and Matthieu Rosset added world gold to their medal treasuries and gave France their first diving title of the 17th FINA World Championships in Budapest while Russia won their third gold medal in synchro with their team technical routine. Not to forget: Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands won his second major 10km title at Lake Balaton. Check out the best moments from day 5!

  • Listen to the official anthem of the 17th FINA World Championships in Budapest. The track is called “We are the Water”, performed by Pályamű.

  • Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands won his second major 10km title today at Lake Balaton at the FINA World Championships, his ever so slight margin of victory just .1 of a second.

  • On day 4 of the FINA World Championships in Budapest, China made it five titles in Diving, Manila Flamini and Giorgio Minisini from Italy stamp authority by grabbing mixed duet tech gold in Synchonised Swimming and Canada snatched an 8-all draw with Montenegro.

  • Are you a fan of speedos? I am and here’s why! Speedo power!

    https://youtu.be/7kOKDdocGyc

  • A 10-year-old boy from a drug-ridden Miami neighborhood apparently died of a fentanyl overdose last month, becoming one of Florida’s smallest victims of the opioid crisis, authorities said Tuesday. But how he came into contact with the powerful painkiller is a mystery.

    Fifth-grader Alton Banks died June 23 after a visit to the pool in the city’s Overtown section. He began vomiting at home, was found unconscious that evening and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Preliminary toxicology tests showed he had fentanyl in his system, authorities said.

    “We don’t believe he got it at his home,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said. “It could be as simple as touching it. It could have been a towel at the pool.”

    She added: “We just don’t know.”

    See ABC13

  • For as long as she can remember, Dr. Andrea Marshall wanted to be a marine biologist. Now, she’s living out her dream with one of the ocean’s most amazing creatures. That is, Marshall studies and helps protect giant manta rays. While Marshall’s work takes her around the world, she calls the vast, undeveloped coastline of southern Mozambique her home. There, she dives, photographs and interacts with these enormous, gentle, intelligent creatures. Strap on your fins, we’re going diving.

  • Bryan and Roberta Ursrey say “thank you” in person to the strangers who formed a human chain to pull their family from a rip current at Panama City Beach, Florida.

  • This is one of several attacks to have occurred in the past 10 days and the second attack in the area.