Swimmer's Daily

  • Quick look into the daily practice routine of Harvard Swimming and Diving.

  • Former Olympic swimmer Carlton Bruner talks about how important swimming and giving back to the community are to his life.

  • Check out our 15 minute Vinyasa Yoga flow featuring Rebecca Soni

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  • An athlete died over the weekend after competing in the Maryland Special Olympics at Towson University.

    The athlete was competing in the aquatics competition, when she suffered a medical emergency, event officials confirmed.

    “The athlete was treated on-site by medical personnel and taken off-site to receive emergency medical care, where the athlete subsequently passed away. Our thoughts are with the family and the whole Special Olympics Maryland family during this difficult time,” Special Olympics Maryland said in a statement. Out of respect, we ask that you please extend the family the courtesy of privacy.”

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  • A teenage boy has died after spending approximately 45 minutes underwater in Lake Washington at Mt. Baker Beach in Seattle, a Harborview Medical Center spokesperson said.

    The teen went underwater at around 6 P.M. Sunday, Seattle firefighters said. Divers pulled him out of the water and medics rushed him to Harborview Medical Center. A hospital spokesperson told KOMO 4 at around 9:45 P.M. Sunday that the teen did not survive.

    “You heard her yelling ‘It’s my boyfriend! He will not come up! Someone please call his dad,’” said witness Dejanae Johnson.

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  • Candice Alley can’t hide the hurt. ‘I ran out of tears, it was so exhausting,’ she says, remembering the dying days of her five-year marriage to Olympic legend Grant Hackett.

    She has moved on with her life. But Grant’s remarkable pool comeback – creating new headlines about the golden couple’s split – has finally forced her to speak out for the first time.

    Until today, she has stayed silent for the sake of their five-year-old twins, Jagger and Charlize.

    Away from the spotlight of her singing career, she’s a self-confessed homebody who prefers to keep her private life just that way – private.

    But Candice feels she must express her point of view following Grant’s latest claims about their relationship, especially his take on the disastrous Derby Day row that culminated in a trashed apartment and their eventual separation.

    Former pop star Candice, 32, sadly comments: “It was new for me to read in newspapers that Grant said our marriage was one of those that was probably doomed to fail from the start, and that he wanted to leave.

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  • A former Michigan Lakeshore Aquatics swim coach has been sentenced to probation after he exposed himself at a Douglas hotel pool while sexting his wife.

    Troy Emmons, 53, was sentenced May 29 in Allegan County District Court on a charge of attempted aggravated indecent exposure.

    In a plea deal, Allegan County prosecutors agreed to dismiss charges of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.

    Emmons also was fined $1,415 and paid it at sentencing, a court clerk said.

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  • While pools and beaches are a source of fun for Canadian families during the summer, they also pose a risk for drowning. The Lifesaving Society has developed a program to teach school children three critical skills needed to survive a fall in deep water.

    In Canada, drowning is the number one cause of unintentional injury death among children four and younger, according to the society. It is the second leading cause of preventable death for children under the age of 10.

    In 2014, the World Health Organization published the first-ever report on drowning, deeming it a public health issue. It found that every day, more than 40 people lose their lives to drowning globally. Yet, despite the high death rate, there are no global strategies for drowning prevention.

    The WHO issued a list of 10 actions that can help prevent drowning, and among them was to teach school-age children basic swimming and water safety skills.

    Barbara Byers, public education director at The Lifesaving Society, said teaching school children basic swimming skills is similar to giving them an “immunization” against drowning.

    “If we can teach children these skills while they’re young, then they can hopefully be safe for the rest of their lives,” she told CTV’s Canada AM.

    To help teach Canadian children basic swimming survival skills, the society developed the “Swim to Survive” program.

    The program teaches children three basic skills needed to survive an unexpected fall into deep water. The steps are:

    • Roll into deep water: This will help simulate what it feels like to fall off a boat or off a dock.
    • Tread water for one minute: This teaches swimmers to get their adrenaline under control, calm down, and make a plan on how to get to safety.
    • Swim 50 metres: This will allow swimmers to get to safety, as most people who drown are located close to shore or the side of a pool.

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  • Well, the latest M:I 5 trailer goes deep, with an intense underwater scene.

    It’s something the adrenalin junkie Cruise has always wanted to do. Cruise told USA TODAY that he worked extensively for the underwater scene shot without a cut, training to have underwater breath holds of 6 to 61/2 minutes.

    To put it in context, that’s the entire Rolling Stones version of “Sympathy for the Devil.” Watch portions in the new trailer below.

    Says Cruise:

    “It’s something I have always wanted to do. (Director Christopher McQuarrie) and I have been thinking about it since working on ‘Edge of Tomorrow.’ I have done a lot of underwater sequences. But we wanted to create a suspense underwater sequence without cuts. So doing that sequence was really interesting. We’re underwater and we’re doing breath-holds of 6 to 61/2 minutes. So I was doing all my training with the other stuff (on-set). It was very taxing stuff.”

    See more here on USA Today