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  • Today, Lake Merritt is known as the Crown Jewel of Oakland, but it used to be called by a different name: the Lake of 1,000 Smells. To figure how to make it a swimming lake, it’d be good to know how it became un-swimmable in the first place.

  • Pool season is here and our little Dolfin Swim School Swimmer, Rylan, alongside Texas Drowning Prevention Alliance has four quick tips for water safety!

  • IU swimmer Lilly King was named the Big Ten Women’s Swimmer of the Year on Tuesday after winning NCAA titles in the 100 and 200 breaststroke. The freshman becomes the seventh Hoosier to earn the honor.

  • University of Florida Swim Coach Greg Troy discusses how SuperSwim has been a part of his olympic swimming career since he started in Fort Myers, Florida.
    http://SuperSwim.com for more

  • The World Anti-Doping Agency will study allegations of cover-ups of positive drugs tests by Chinese swimmers following claims in a British newspaper.

    The Times reported on Thursday that it had been approached by whistleblowers in Chinese swimming who said that five positive tests had been kept secret.

    It also said that coach Zhou Ming had been working with swimmers in Tianjin. Zhou was banned by world governing body FINA in 1998 after overseeing the scandal at the world championships in Perth, Australia, when four swimmers tested positive and vials of human growth hormone were discovered in a swimmer’s bag by Australian customs authorities.

    “These are very serious allegations concerning Chinese swimming that warrant further examination,” WADA spokesman Ben Nichols said. “WADA is now fully scrutinizing the information that The Times newspaper has passed on to us so that we can determine exactly what the appropriate steps are and so that we can address this matter head on.”

    China’s anti-doping agency responded to the allegations by saying it had recorded six recent positive tests by Chinese swimmers and denying any cover-up.

    Zhao Jian, deputy director of the Chinese agency known as CHINADA, said it had recorded three positive tests, all for clenbuterol, in late August and early September. The swimming federation will soon issue punishments in those cases and the results will be made known, he said.

    Zhao said there have also been three positive tests since the beginning of 2016, all in January, but those remain under investigation and will be publicized within 20 days of punishments being issued in accordance with WADA regulations. He said the World Anti-Doping Agency has been kept informed about all positive tests.

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  • The trial of a former Stanford athlete charged with sexually assaulting an unconscious drunk woman at a frat party got off to promising start on the fourth day of testimony Tuesday, with witness testimony Tuesday supporting Brock Turner’s claim that the alleged victim didn’t appear sloppy drunk.

    But by day’s end, the prosecution had gutted the credibility of the defense’s star expert witness, increasing the pressure on 20-year-old Turner to win over the jury Wednesday when he takes the stand and offers his account for the first time.

    The slim, clean-cut blond Midwesterner has pleaded not guilty to three felony charges: sexually penetrating an intoxicated person, sexually penetrating an unconscious person, and assault with intent to commit rape. If he is convicted, he would face a minimum of eight years in prison and a maximum of 22 years. He is expected to testify that the woman, who was 22 at the time of the Jan. 18, 2015 incident at the Kappa Alpha fraternity, did not appear extremely drunk and consented to the sexual encounter, but was too inebriated to remember.

    Prosecutor Aleleh Kiancerci, on the other hand, contends that the woman was clearly extremely drunk — and Turner knew it. She was found unconscious with her bra pushed up, her underpants and her hair ground into a bed of pine needles when two bicylists rode by and saw Turner atop her making a thrusting motion. She did not wake up for at least three hours. The woman’s blood-alcohol was more than .24, or three times the legal limit. Turner’s blood-alcohol content was .17, or more than twice the legal limit of .08.

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  • Wearing just a Speedo, an extreme swimmer on Tuesday braved a dip with sharks in an effort to raise awareness of ocean conservation.

    Justin Coetzee faced one of the world’s most feared predators when he, along with shark handlers, made the daring dive at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, for which he is the brand ambassador.

    Photographer Stéphane Gautronneau swam with them.

    “It was a fantastic experience,” Coetzee told News24 after his feat.

    “It was just me and my Speedo. It was wonderful.”

    Read News24

  • A 5-year-old girl has been credited with saving her mother’s life after she fell unconscious in their swimming pool in South Texas.

    The rescue, captured on home surveillance video, shows Tracy Anderwald face down in the pool at their home near Portland on Friday.

    The video shows Allison Anderwald wading in, dragging her mother to the shallow end and turning her over so she is able to breathe.

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    https://youtu.be/ITG3YrMmWP4