Swimmer's Daily

  • Dog owners are being warned to be careful after at least one dog, and maybe more, died from swimming in a toxic lake. The conditions at Lake Chabot may have been brought on by the drought.

    It’s suspected that the slimy blue-green algae in the lake caused the death of a dog that played with Karen Johanson’s dog. They share the same veterinarian. Johanson said the dog that died was “the sweetest chocolate lab, Josie. Just a wonderful dear gentle soul.”

    “In the 80 year history of the park district, this is the first year we’ve had a toxic algae blooms,” Carolyn Jones, an East Bay Regional Parks spokesperson, said.

    Signs have been placed around Lake Chabot warning people and their pets not to come in contact with the water. It’s believed the drought created ripe conditions for this algae bloom.

    See ABC 7 News

    Photo by sfbaywalk

  • A former Stanford University student charged Wednesday with raping a drunk and unconscious woman at an on-campus fraternity party Jan. 18 admitted to sexually fondling her after consuming nine alcoholic drinks but denied raping her, according to a report from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.

    Brock Allen Turner, 19, charged Wednesday in Superior Court in Palo Alto with five felony counts of sexual assault, said he met the woman that night at a party at the Kappa Alpha House at 664 Lomita Court, and they ended up kissing while on the ground outside the house, according to a statement he gave to deputies assigned to the Stanford campus.

    Turner said he took off the woman’s underwear, digitally penetrated her and touched her breasts, but never took off his pants, the report said.

    He said that the woman rubbed his back and seemed to enjoy the activity and his “intentions were not to try and rape the girl without her consent” but to “’hook up’ with a girl,” the report said.

    Read Palo Alto Patch and see ABC 7 News

    http://youtu.be/v8qUa6kiq18

  • Two bikers allegedly caught an ex-Stanford University student raping an unconscious woman on the university’s Palo Alto, California campus.

    Brock Allen Turner, 19, is accused of raping a woman during the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 18, according to the Stanford Daily.

    He’s charged with raping an intoxicated person, raping an unconscious person, sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated and unconscious woman, and assault with intent to commit rape.

    The Los Angeles Times reports that two men riding their bikes allegedly discovered Turner raping the woman and chased after him. They eventually tackled him and held him while a third person called police.

    Turner withdrew from Stanford on Tuesday and is barred from going on campus, Stanford University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin told the Times. The freshman was also on the school’s nationally ranked swim team.

    Read for instance Huffington Post

    http://youtu.be/DNzNclrczFA

  • Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps was in Knoxville Wednesday helping with a special announcement at the Boys and Girls Club.

    While here, Phelps met with William Watson III, who has been in the news before. Phelps awarded him the Head and Shoulders Confidence Award at the London Olympics in 2012. Watson is a swimmer on the Haslam Family University Club team.

    “To try to help kids live healthy lifestyles but also be healthy in the pool, you know I think that’s something that is not only important here, but I think it’s important all over the country and all over the world,” said Phelps.

    See WATE and Knoxville News Sentinel

  • A public swimming pool outside the Swedish capital is reopening this weekend after building a third changing room, for people with a “neutral gender identity.”

    The city of Sundbyberg, a suburb of Stockholm, says it’s the first LGBT-certified swimming pool in Sweden, a country known for its tolerance toward lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.

    Read ABC News

    Post by TV4 Nyheterna.

  • Australian Swim Team member Mack Horton had some #SuperSeriousFun playing some pranks on his squad mates in the lead up to the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series

    Courtesy of Swimming Australia on YouTube

  • ISHOF CEO Bruce Wigo talks with the legendary swimming and water polo coach of UCLA, Bob Horn, about his role in teaching Burt Lancaster to swim for the cult classic film version of John Cheever’s short story, The Swimmer.

    Courtesy of swimminghalloffame on YouTube

  • Photographer Jean Luis De Heeckeren visits Austria for a unique underwater photo shoot with Red Bull kayaker Viktoria Wolffhardt.

    Take a look behind the lense at the setup, planning, and execution it takes to produce underwater imagery

    Courtesy of Red Bull on YouTube

  • Courtesy of Swimming Australia on YouTube