Swimmer's Daily

  • Read The Citizen

    Swimming South Africa (SSA) confirmed yesterday it had lifted its sanctions against former 50m backstroke world champion Gerhard Zandberg, though his legal team said he had not yet agreed to drop his appeal.

    The national federation said it had opted to end the legal bout.

    “SSA will rather allocate the funds, which are needed to litigate further in this matter, towards its athletes and furthering the sport as a whole,” the swimming body said in a statement.

    “Consequently and notwithstanding the actions by Mr Gerhard Zandberg, SSA has withdrawn its findings and sanctions against Mr Zandberg.”

    However, Zandberg’s lawyer Karen van Eck said they were still in discussions.

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  • See ABC News and CBS 12

    A surveillance video from a condominium complex in Florida shows an invisible, potentially deadly danger lurking in swimming pools.

    The video, shot on April 27 at the Palms West Condominiums in Hialeah, Fla., shows three children shocked while swimming in the condo community’s pool.

    One young girl in the video instantly goes limp after touching the metal rail in the pool’s shallow end.  When a man, believed to be the girl’s father, goes in to save her, he is also zapped but is eventually able to pull her to safety.

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  • Read Reach For The Wall

    Despite Ryan Lochte‘s total flop in his TV debut with “What Would Ryan Lochte do?” last year, the 29-year-old swimmer may be a better actor than previously believed.

    Lochte scratched from the Charlotte Grand Prix last week, and he told reporters at the meet that it was precautionary after feeling knee soreness in practice that week. Lochte tore his MCL and sprained his ACL in November when a fan attempted to leap into the three-time Olympian’s arms.

    “The knee’s good,” Lochte said Friday night in Charlotte. “That’s all I really need to say about it today. It’s getting stronger, I’m doing a lot of therapy. I’m just getting back to my normal self.”

    Turns out, the knee isn’t good. During an event at Macy’s Herald Square in New York City, Lochte revealed that he had re-tore his MCL in practice ahead of the Grand Prix event in practice, reported Women’s Wear Daily on Thursday.

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  • “Scandinavia’s Coolest Swim Meet“, still short course meters in Sentralbadet in Bergen, Norway. This year featuring Daniel Gyurta and Katinka Hosszu (HUN), Cameron van der Burgh (RSA), Rikke Møller Pedersen and Jeanette Ottesen (DEN), Jennie Johansson and Simon Sjödin (SWE), Pál Joensen (FAR) and others. Invitation, Schedule, Start Lists and Live Timing on medley.no

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  • See Wide Open Spaces

    Uploaded to Facebook by a person who was on the tour, this video shows the bravery (or insanity) of this gentleman who, for some reason, seems to look at ease with this gigantic predatory reptiles.

    We’d never make assumptions about someone’s mental capacity, but we’d also never get into the water with these big boys.

    Post by Stacy Hicks.

  • See NBC News

    Red Cross survey finds half of Americans can’t swim well enough to get out of a body of water if they find themselves in over their head. Erika Edwards reports.

  • See Keloland

    Sioux Falls City pools will be opening to the public this Memorial Day weekend. But not everyone will be ready.
    According to a new study from the Red Cross, many adults don’t know basic swimming skills and that could be dangerous.

    Of the adults who know how to swim, only 56 percent can perform basic life-saving skills.

    “Like for instance, if you go to a lake where it may not be supervised, and you get in a situation where you can’t help yourself that’s a dangerous situation to put yourself in and to put your family in,” Jean Pearson, Recreation Program Coordinator for Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation, said.

  • See WNCT

    With warmer weather arriving, many people across the East will be heading to pools. But how do you know they’re safe to swim in.

    Keith Jernigan is with the Craven County Health Department. He says this time of the year is extremely busy as seasonal pools ask to be inspected so they can open to the public.

    “We meet them out on site to look at things such as the safety equipment, the pool water quality and making sure the equipment is operating properly,” said Jernigan.

    But these types of on site inspections are few and far between.

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  • Read Plymouth Herald

    A swimmer “on her last legs” was dramatically rescued by lifeguards this afternoon.

    The exhausted woman was heard screaing for help after she got into difficulty off Tregonhawke beach in Whitsand Bay at around noon.

    RNLI lifeguards patrolling the beach and the Looe lifeboat crew quickly sprung into action. […]

    “As I reached the lady, who was wearing a wetsuit and small swim fins, she was on her lasts legs with exhaustion and wouldn’t have managed to stay afloat for much longer,” Beau explained.

    Photo by dougwoods