Swimmer's Daily

  • A dozen state lawmakers have signed on to the effort to “investigate and take action against” the judge who handed down a six-month sentence to a man convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated young woman outside a Stanford fraternity party.

    The lawmakers sent letters out Friday morning to the Commission on Judicial Performance in San Francisco as well as Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen. The letter to the commission requests a review of Judge Aaron Persky’s performance, stating that the sentencing of 20-year-old Brock Turner “shows bias and undermines public faith in the judicial system.”

    Read The Mercury News

  • Scott Tolman, a swimmer from Sierra High School, is preparing for the Olympic trials and is ready to make his dreams a reality.

  • For up to the minute news on Swimming, Water Polo and Diving around Ireland

  • A recent swim meet in Santa Clara was packed with Olympians preparing for this summer’s games in Rio.

  • Vice president Joe Biden released an open letter to the rape victim at the center of the Stanford sexual assault case. Meantime, new pictures and text messages released by the court appear to show Brock Turner a history of drug use. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz reports for TODAY.

  • James Savage doesn’t have a criminal record, but he’s headed to Alacatraz.

    The 9-year-old is looking to break a world record, preparing to swim three miles to perform a touch-and-go to Alcatraz Island. Right now, that record is held by a 10-year-old.

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  • Wu Minxia was elected the FINA female diver of the year 2012 and 2012. She is the first Chinese athlete with three consecutive olympic golds.

    Shi Tingmao won the FINA female diver of the year award in 2015 and was a world champion in 2011 and 2015. Together they earned even more titles, but see for yourself!

  • It’s an open secret in the black community – blacks can’t swim. And the generalization doesn’t end there.

    The stereotyping as to why seems less important than the life threatening data: 70 percent of black children don’t know how to float, tread water or even splash in the shallow end of the pool.

    Atlanta rapper and avid swimmer Ludacris is changing that statistic by shining a light on the problem. And he’s using the resources of his namesake foundation to work towards a solution.

    See kmov.com

    KMOV.com

  • A style of swimwear has caused an uproar at a public pool in Germany, but the culprit isn’t a revealing bikini. Instead, it’s the ‘burqini’ that’s been banned – the modest swimsuit worn by some Muslim women.

    When the indoor pool in Neutraubling, Germany, held a women-only day, one of the swimmers opted to wear a burqini while swimming and participating in water aerobics.

    However, her attire led to complaints from other women at the pool, Mittelbayerische newspaper reported.

    The move was also criticized by the town’s mayor, Heinz Kiechle.

    “Why the burqini as a full-body suit would be necessary to wear during a women’s swim day is for me incomprehensible,” he said, as quoted by The Local.

    Read RT

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