Swimmer's Daily

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  • Families in Sugar Land fought to save the city’s only public pool, though celebrations will be cut for next year.

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  • How well is Paul Rathnam’s company Modpools doing converting shipping containers into swimming pools?

    Well, he recently did a promotion with Walt Disney for its new cable TV series Siren. A mermaid swam in one of its pools at Comic-Con in New York.

    Plus, Modpools did a shoe launch with Nike — also in New York.

    “Next week, I’m going to a guy in Fresno who has a rescue centre for wild cats — the big kind that eat you,” Rathnam said.

    “He wants one for his jaguars to swim in.”

    Business, in other words, is doing really, really well.

    In its first year of operation, Modpools expects sales of about $6 million. Not bad for a company that hasn’t spent a cent on marketing.

    Read Vancouver Sun

    Shipping Container Pool Install – Modpools

  • You might not be getting better every time you go to swim practice. In fact, you might be getting worse, here is why.

  • Two swimmers have been branded “idiots” after recklessly ignoring severe weather warnings to go bathing off the coast of Ireland as the eye of Storm Ophelia approached.

    Pensioner Timmy Flaherty and bather Emer Cannon defied advice urging people to stay indoors as experts warned the storm would bring flooding, violent, destructive winds and a danger to life.

    Ophelia, which was a category three hurricane before being downgraded to a storm, hit the south-west tip of Ireland on Monday morning and moved northwards throughout the day.

    Three people have so far been killed in the storm, officials confirmed.

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    https://youtu.be/A3K9ifG-rSA

    Hurricane Ophelia – Only in Ireland

    See Evening Standard

  • Swimmer Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history. Yet, he has fought his share of battles with depression and other mental health issues just like many of today’s youth.

    In a new documentary about anxiety and its impact on kids, Phelps opens up about experiencing low self-worth when he was younger, even while he was racking up swimming medals and accolades.

    “I just didn’t like who I was. If something was bothering me that would start to come out, and I would start feeling angry or depressed or upset, I would almost ignore it,” he tells a young boy in the film, “Angst.” “So I would shove it even farther down so I wouldn’t have to deal with it, so I never had to talk about it.”

    See Today

    https://vimeo.com/234937898

  • Jazz Carlin finished in 11th place on her open water debut in China.

    The 27-year-old finished in 1:38:36.10 at the World Cup event in Chun’An, 01:06.90 behind winner Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil.

    Carlin won two silver medals in the pool at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

    See BBC