Swimmer's Daily

  • It’s well known when Corunna and Owosso high school sports team meet, it’s going to be interesting because of their intense rivalry.

    But that all changed when a rivalry became a team effort to save a life.

    On Thursday, Corunna swimmers Xavier Staubs and Grant Warner had just wrapped up their first event, when they noticed Owosso junior Kamrin Samson was having trouble.

    Samson was sinking to the bottom of the pool, Staubs and Warner quickly went into action, bringing Samson to the surface to safety.

    Owosso’s head coach, a former police officer, performed a life-saving technique called a sternum rub and Samson began breathing again.

    He was then taken to a local hospital.

    See NBC25News

    https://youtu.be/FnXF4gvPKmg

  • A private, after-hours event booked at the Southland Leisure Centre is drawing concerns from non-participants regarding the safety of minors prompting officials with the City of Calgary Community Services to discuss security with organizers.

    See CTV News

  • A five-time Olympic Champion, Australian legend Ian Thorpe is one of the greatest swimmers ever and one the biggest stars of the Sydney Olympics, but after leaving the sport he had to overcome depression before inspiring others.

    The Inner Battle Swimming Star Ian Thorpe Fights | Legends Live On

  • Concerns are mounting over an upcoming โ€œnaked water slides and wave poolโ€ night at a city facility.

    The private, after-hours event is scheduled for Jan. 14 at Southland Leisure Centre, organized by nudist group Calgary Nude Recreation. Two other events are planned for Feb. 11 and March 11.

    But the group describes itself online as โ€œfamily oriented and kid friendly and open to people of all ages, body types, all genders, sexual orientations, and anyone else in between,โ€ which has some Calgarians worried about the safety of children.

    An online petition created over the weekend had generated more than 2,000 signatures by Sunday afternoon, calling on Mayor Naheed Nenshi and the city to โ€œput this event to restโ€ or โ€œat least . . . make it age appropriate.โ€

    โ€œI respect the concept and believe in an 18+ setting,โ€ wrote April Parker, who started the petition. โ€œHowever, having naked children around a bunch of naked adults doesnโ€™t seem like a good idea for any reason.โ€

    Read Calgary Herald

  • The only reason the boy survived this with all his toes intact is the stranger flying the drone yelled for him to exit the water upon seeing what was occurring from above.

    See Digg

    https://youtu.be/DJllmzGluZc

  • BMW SwimTech takes a look at the essential elements of a clean start.

  • Abbey Cornelius was diagnosed with Stage 2 non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in February. She recently got the chance to fulfil her life long dream of swimming at the Olympic Training Center and meeting Katie Ledecky.

  • Smart swimwear is coming to a pool near you this spring!ย Swim.com, the worldโ€™s most advanced swim tracking platform, has partnered with Spire, makers of the newย Spire Health Tagย wearable, to create the worldโ€™s first smart swimsuit.ย The partnership will be unveiled at CES 2018 this coming week and the smart swimsuits are expected to retail in late March onย SwimOutlet.com, the world’s largest swim retailer.

    The new Spire Health Tag integration with Swim.com will allow users to track, log and analyze data from their swims just by putting on their favorite suit. The device will automatically start tracking when the suit is put on and data will sync to the phone over bluetooth where it is analyzed by Swim.comโ€™s advanced algorithms.

    โ€œThis is by far the easiest and most cost-effective way to track your swims ,โ€ said Davis Wuolle, President of Swim.com. โ€œThereโ€™s no more forgetting your watch at home and no more charging or button-pressing to track your swim. When you order from SwimOutlet.com, the Spire Health Tag is custom-bonded to the inside of the suit you select to enable advanced swim workout analysis. Itโ€™s so thin, lightweight, and compact that you wonโ€™t even know itโ€™s there.โ€

    โ€œSwim.com and SwimOutlet.com are at the forefront of bringing integrated apparel and athletic performance monitoring to their customers,”ย said Jonathan Palley, CEO of Spire. “Together with Health Tag, we are unlocking the most advanced and most convenient swim-tracking experience on the market.โ€

    The Spire Health Tag will offer several special features that make it a revolution in the world of swim-tracking and fitness wearables:

    • No charging needed: the embedded battery lasts the life of your suit
    • No buttons to press: just put on your suit and start swimming
    • A low-profile, soft-touch and comfortable design that never interferes with the swimmerโ€™s feel for the water
    • Automatic bluetooth syncing to get advanced swim tracking from Swim.com right on your smartphone

    Starting this spring, customers will be able to choose from a wide variety of suits on SwimOutlet.com available with Spire Health Tag integration for Swim.com.

    Customers will be able to customize their choice of swimsuit ordered from SwimOutlet.com with the exclusive Spire Health Tag integrated for only $30 in addition to the price of the suit. Customers can sign up now to reserve exclusive early access to join the revolution in smart swimwear by going toย www.swimoutlet.com/spire.

    Press release from SwimOutlet.com

  • The kids at SwimLabs in Sandy received swim lessons on Saturday – and they were from a very special guest.

    Gold medal Olympic swimmer Jason Lezak stopped by to share some of his stories of winning multiple gold medals across four Olympic games. He also gave the kids pointers on technique and on life.

    “It wasn’t always an easy road,” Lezak told News4Utah. “They’re going to have ups and downs and they are going to make mistakes. I made plenty of them. But how do you come back from those? How do you respond?”

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