Almost two dozen teenagers had to be rescued from the water off a San Diego shore after nearly drowning.
The students were members of a swim team that were visiting the San Diego coast to compete in a long-distance swim as part of their annual beach swim training, officials said Tuesday.
That’s when a few began to panic in the rough conditions.
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A 2010 study conducted in Denmark and published in the journal Epidemiology aimed to answer the question “Is Swimming During Pregnancy a Safe Exercise? by comparing swimming, bicycling and no exercise. Swimming is considered an ideal activity for pregnant women, the study found. There was no indication that swimming in pool water “is associated with adverse reproductive outcomes.â€
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A California tech executive died Sunday after he jumped into a swimming pool to save his daughter, who was being electrocuted and turning blue in the water, PEOPLE confirms.
Jim Tramel, 43, of Burlingame, California, saw his daughter, 9, struggling in the pool at a home in Palm Springs during a family gathering and leaped in to save her, police said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.
Tramel was electrocuted as well, and both father and daughter had to be pulled from the pool by others at the gathering. The electrocutions likely occurred “as a result of faulty pool wires,” police said.
When paramedics arrived, father and daughter were receiving CPR, police said. Tramel was pronounced dead at Desert Regional Medical Center a short time later. His daughter was said to be in critical condition at Loma Linda Medical University.
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Nineteen-year-old Katie Ledecky has emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, breaking multiple world records in races short and long. What’s her secret? asks Robert Sullivan.
One of the reasons it is difficult to see precisely what makes Katie Ledecky perhaps the greatest athlete in America, and maybe the planet, is that when she comes out of her house it is dark, as in very dark, as in 4:25 in the morning. Naturally, conversation at this hour is limited: The swimmer is under the hood of her parka and savoring those last few moments before the 5:00 a.m. plunge, while her father, David Ledecky, who is ferrying her to practice, is DJ-ing a little classic rock, as fathers driving their nineteen-year-old daughters anywhere typically do.
Ninety minutes and thousands of strokes later, at the pool at Georgetown Prep, in Bethesda, Maryland, where Ledecky trains six days a week, it’s easy to spot the swimmer who has broken her own world record in the 800-meter freestyle an astounding four times since 2013. She is the six-foot-tall woman powering through her laps alongside the men, a few lanes away from the rest of the women. Seated in the stands is the swimmer’s mother, Mary Gen (short for Mary Genevieve), who doesn’t get into the particulars of her daughter’s technique. “You should ask Katie,†she says. “I wonder what she’ll say. We try to stay out of strategies. We just try to make sure she’s happy.â€
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A former University of Virginia swim team member has dropped the lawsuit against five upperclassmen, whom he have alleged of hazing him and other freshmen swimmers. This comes after a confidential settlement has been reached by both parties.
In a report by ABC News, the attorneys of both parties have issued statements on Tuesday. The lawsuit was filed by Anthony Marcantonio in June 2015 in the U.S. District Court. He said the five upperclassmen subjected him and other incoming team members to hazing during the start of the school year 2014 to 2015.
The full terms of the private settlement have not been released, but the five people accused have issued an apology. The former swim team members have been identified as Charles Rommel, David Ingraham, Jacob Pearce, Kyle Dudzinski, and Luke Papendick. The statement regarding the settlement also says that the defendants’ actions during the aforementioned school year’s Welcome Week was never intended to harm Marcantonio or anyone else.
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A former Stanford athlete was found guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting an unconscious intoxicated woman outside an on-campus fraternity party in a case that helped increase pressure on colleges nationwide to do more to prevent assaults and punish offenders.
Brock Turner, 20, was convicted of three felony charges: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen said the case helps make the distinction clear between consensual sex and sexual assault.
“Drunk means no,” Rosen said. “Passed out means no.”
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Jessica Long is a Paralympic swimmer with 12 gold medals for Team USA. The epitome of determination, she has been doing things her own way since birth. Follow Jessica into the pool as she takes us through an intensive and inspiring training session.
Bermuda Olympic swimmer Roy-Allan Burch is at Bermuda’s National Sports Centre with fellow members of SwimMac, training for the Rio Olympics. Check the medal count and check what their favourite things were about Bermuda!
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