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  • Read NY Daily News

    It was a little less than a year into her swimming comeback and, at age 40, Dara Torres was blazing through her heats during the 2007 swimming nationals in Indianapolis.

    “I swam really fast and my coach (the late Michael Lohberg) said, ‘Everyone is talking about you.’ I’m like, ‘Cool.’ He’s like, ‘No, no. Not cool. They all think you’re not doing it the right way.’ And I said, ‘We have to do something about that,’” Torres recalls. “Imagine putting your heart and soul into something your entire life and having someone say that you must be cheating.”

    That was the stark reality Torres says she faced that summer while she prepared for the 2008 Beijing Olympics — only a year after giving birth to her daughter, she was smack in the middle of a steroid era, where there was intense scrutiny throughout all sports on doping issues.

    “Mind you I understand. (The media) has had many athletes look you in the eye, and say, ‘I have not taken PEDs.’ And then they’re either in jail or (not playing) anymore,” says Torres, who competed in her first Olympics in 1984. “But I was just dumbfounded. I’d never experienced that before.”

    Image courtesy of Karen Blaha, CC BY-SA 2.0

  • It is an ad, yes, but still. Behold!

    http://youtu.be/hJW5_iZNdFY

  • Read This Is The West Country

    A swimmer who got into difficulties during a Sunday morning dip off Minehead couldn’t have chosen a better moment – for there were three lifeboats in the area at the time.

    The teenager found himself being carried out to sea by a falling tide yesterday (May 4), and tried to attract the attention of a nearby jet skier, but failed.

    But he was spotted by the crew of Minehead’s D-class lifeboat which was on exercise with the station’s Atlantic 85 and the all-weather lifeboat from Barry Dock at the time.

    Photo by leppre

  • See abc7

    Twin baby boys were found lying facedown in a Port Charlotte swimming pool. One died at the pool. The other died three days later. Their father and Cape Coral officials don’t want another parent to see a day of fun turn tragic.

    Whether on the beach or at a swimming pool, one dad says things can change quickly in the blink of an eye. Christian and Joshua DeMello had just celebrated their first birthday. A month later in 2010, they were dead.

    “It was the worst one-two punch I’ve ever experienced in my life,” said Paul DeMello, the boys’ father and water safety advocate.

    DeMello got a phone call about his twins drowning at their grandparents’ house. “It still brings a tear to my eye, DeMello said.

    DeMello is warning parents to do all they can to avoid losing their kids. “They should realize that adult supervision is definitely number one, but we are all guilty of taking our eyes off our children,” he said.

    ABC-7.com WZVN News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral

  • See WSVN

    A 1-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after she was pulled from a backyard swimming pool, Sunday.

    Police said the toddler was found floating in the pool of a home located on the 7300 block of 35th Court in Lauderhill. “Our preliminary investigation is indicating that the child may have been left unattended for a very short period of time when the mother went to another part of the house to use the restroom,” said Lauderhill Police Lt. Greg Solowsky. “When the mother came back to check on the child, only a few minutes later, she had discovered the child floating in the pool.”

    Police said the girl was breathing when she was taken to Plantation General Hospital. Officers remained on the scene to investigate what kind of access she had to the pool.

    Outside the home, the victim’s grandmother updated reporters about the 1-year-old’s condition. “She’s doing OK. She’s breathing on her own,” she said. “They just said that she was crying, so I’m on my way to the hospital now.”

    WSVN-TV – 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco

  • Bristol artist Luke Jerram turns park street into a water slide!

    On the 4th May this giant 90m (300ft) water slide was installed on Park Street in Bristol as part of Making Sundays Special and the Bristol Art Weekender. Running from 11am-5pm for one day only, the day was an event for the city to remember!

    96,573 people signed up for their chance to get a ‘ticket to slide’, through a ballot with only 360 tickets were issued to a few lucky people on the day.

    Park and Slide Bristol [OFFICIAL VIDEO] from Cinematica Media on Vimeo.

  • Via PetaPixel

    Photographer JP Danko recently put together the above video that takes a 20-minute behind-the-scenes look at the editing of an underwater photo. Detailing from beginning to end, Danko shares his personal technique for turning a straight-out-of-camera shot to something ready for publication.

  • Basketball, softball, cannonball – what sounds the most fun to you?

    See swimtoday.org

  • Diving under the ice with The Water Rescue Unit of Zaragoza’s Fire Brigade. “Buceadores de la Unidad de Rescate Acuático del Cuerpo de Bomberos del Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza”. Awesome!