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  • Australian swimming is harking back to a golden moniker to regain public pride ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

    The Australian team once again will be named the Dolphins, after the name was dropped in 2009.

    Swimming has worked to rebuild its brand since the Stillnox scandal in the wake of a disappointing London Olympics campaign in 2012.

    Swimming Australia CEO Mark Anderson said the move was an important symbolic one but still a small step in the sport’s cultural change after the London backlash.

    Anderson said the Dolphins brand still held a positive value for the Australian public but said it was just one step in the continued change in the team.

    “A cultural change is an ongoing process,” he said. “We’re a long way from where we need to be in all aspects in and out of the pool, but we are benchmarking what is the best around the world in every area.

    Read The Sydney Morning Herald

  • Operators of learning-to-swim schools are catering to increased demand for private lessons in backyard pools as new Australian migrants struggle to learn water skills in adulthood.

    Petrina Liyanage of ‘Swim with a Smile’ says she teaches many new migrants who are scared or embarrassed of learning to swim in public pools.

    She now has so many adult clients she no longer teaches children.

    “I would say 100 per cent, every single one, come to me because they want private lessons,” she says.

    “They don’t want people watching them.”

    See SBS

  • It’s what appears to be a miracle caught on camera – the moment emergency services rescued an 18-month old girl who’d been hanging upside down in a submerged car in a river for 14 hours, unconscious but alive.

    Police officers in Utah working to right a four-wheel drive that had been submerged, upside-down after a crash discovered that one of the occupants – 18-month-old Lily Groesbeck – had somehow survived hours underwater in the freezing river.

    “Oh my God! There’s a baby,” one of the officers can be heard saying on the video of the rescue, which was captured on body-camera.

    A policeman holds her tiny body, wrapped in a pink shawl, aloft.

    Lily’s mother, 25-year-old Jennifer Lyn Groesebeck, was dead in the driver’s seat.

    The infant received CPR at the scene and was rushed to hospital, where doctors were able to stabilise her.

    What’s even more remarkable than the rescue itself is what officers told local media later on. They all heard the a voice saying “help me”, while they were working to right the vehicle.

    “Someone said ‘help me’ inside that car,” Officer Tyler Beddoes told local TV news.

    Another officer, Jared Warner, said he heard it was well.

    “To me, it was plain as day. I remember hearing a voice that didn’t sound like a child, just saying ‘help me.’”

    See 9News

  • If someone had told me six years ago that I would be physically and mentally preparing myself to embark on any sort of competitive swimming program, I would have said “not a chance in the world” and walked away laughing. 
    It’s fair to say life has had many twists and turns in the last four or five years. The difficulties following my marriage breakdown and acrimonious divorce were laid bare for all to see. I was in and out of the news, sometimes for the wrong reasons. I can’t change the past but I can certainly learn from it and hope to be defined by my actions.

    Read Sydney Morning Herald

  • See EDINT15 on Livestream , results here on swimscotland.co.uk

  • World and Olympic swimming champions will feature in an impressive roster of talent in Edinburgh this weekend.

  • A Detroit-area teen had to be rescued from a Holland pool and revived using CPR Friday.

    The incident occurred around 1 p.m. at the Holland Community Aquatic Center, which is located at 550 Maple Ave. The high school student from Wyandotte was diving as he warmed up before a qualifying round of the Division 2 state swim meet.

    Other divers and lifeguards spotted the teen at the bottom of the 13-foot-deep pool. Several lifeguards and fully-clothed coaches jumped in and pulled him out. He had to be revived with CPR.

    Once emergency responders were sure the teen was breathing, had a pulse and was conscious, he was taken to the hospital. He is expected to make a full recovery.

    The event was MHSAA-sanctioned, so there was a doctor and a medical trainer on hand.

    It’s unclear what happened that left the teen on the bottom of the pool.

    Garret Snook, a swim coach at Saginaw Heritage High School, witnessed the incident. He said this type of accident at a swim meet is extremely unusual.

    “Just a fluke incident. Just really scary,” he said. “I’ve never been anywhere near anything like this. I’ve been around the pool since probably I was 8 years old — the last 20 years of my life. First time I’ve ever walked away thinking something bad happened at a swim meet.”

    See WOODTV

  • In a stunning return to the pool that is set to completely surpass the efforts of Olympic great Ian Thorpe in 2012, Hackett is swimming as fast as Thorpe did three years ago after less than half of the time back in full training.

    Just six months into his comeback Hackett has already posted multiple 200m freestyle time trials in training of one minute 50 seconds, merely a fingertip off Thorpe’s 1:49.91 effort when 12th at the 2012 Olympic trials in Adelaide.

    Today Hackett will contest his first official race since the 2008 Beijing Olympics when he does a qualifying meet at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre racing the 400m and 200m freestyle.

    “I’ve been getting up and doing that sort of time (1:50) since December actually,” Hackett said.

    “I never thought I’d get to that time at this sort of stage, particularly in full training.”

    That time of 1:47 remains Hackett’s goal. Swim that fast next month at the world titles selection trials in Sydney and he could find himself on the plane to Kazan.

    Read FOX Sports

    https://youtu.be/Zh57lUXgL9Y

  • Clear Lounge is a new underwater oxygen bar that promises a refreshing experience. And possibly a hangover cure.

    https://youtu.be/crzv_n8hJUE