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No Time for a Swim as Salt Lake County Pools Lack Lifeguards | FOX 13 News Utah
Salt Lake County leaders continue to struggle to employ lifeguards at public pools.
In a Tuesday meeting, County Commission Chairperson Steve DeBry grilled the Parks and Recreation Department for failing to hire enough lifeguards, forcing public pools at some county-operated sites to run on limited hours since the fall.
FULL STORY – https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-n…
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FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Concludes in Kazan
The FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 came to a close this weekend with three action-packed days of competition in Kazan, Russia. After the three successful stops in Berlin, Budapest, and Doha, all eyes were on Kazan at the Aquatics Palace when South Africa’s Matthew Sates and Australia’s most-decorated Olympian Emma McKeon were crowned the overall winners.
An impressive group of the world’s best swimmers fiercely competed across the four legs for an overall prize pool of US $1,452,000. The Swimming World Cup 2021 saw a total of 1021 athletes compete (431 women and 590 men) and 57 national federations from five continents represented.
Sates and McKeon topped the men’s and women’s podiums respectively, earning them each US$ 100,000 in overall prize money. Sates finished the World Cup with 227 total points. Less than one point separated American Tom Shields in second place with 224.4 points and Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands in third place with 224.1 points. In the women’s chart, McKeon finished in with 228.3 overall points, followed closely by the Netherlands’ Kira Toussaint who came in second place with 227.4 points. Australian Madison Wilson finished in third place with 209.1 points.
There was no shortage of world records across the four legs of the World Cup. Australian Kyle Chalmers broke the World Record in the Men’s 100m freestyle with a time of 44.84 during the second day of the competition in Kazan. Sates shattered multiple World Junior Records, including Men’s 200m Medley (1:51.45), Men’s 200m Freestyle (1:40.65), and Men’s 400m Freestyle (3:37.92). The United States set a new World Junior Record for Mixed 4×50 Medley Relay (1:41.21).
Breaking World Cup Records were Kira Toussaint in the Women’s 50m Backstroke (25.81), McKeon in the Women’s 100m Freestyle (50.58), and Japan’s Daiya Seto in the Men’s 200m Medley (1:50.66).
All four stops of the 2021 Swimming World Cup served as qualifying events for the FINA World Swimming Championships which will be held in Abu Dhabi, Dubai from 16-21 December 2021.
More information and complete rankings from the Swimming World Cup can be found here:Â https://www.fina.org/competitions/1383/fina-swimming-world-cup-2021/rankings?scoringId=af06470d-9e7b-4a2d-b32a-d4328050bb42Press release from FINA, images courtesy of FINA
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Abbey Weitzeil Explains The Genius of Coach Coley Stickels | Ultimate Swimmer
Abbey Weitzeil shares her thoughts on her high school coach Coley Stickels.
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Racial Divide in Swimming Investigated: Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4) | Michael Gunning
BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
Swimming has always played a special place in my heart, and I’m extremely proud to have represented both of my duel Nationalities (Team GB and Team Jamaica) at the highest level. Earlier this month, I appeared on Channel 4’s Daytime Show – Steph’s Packed Lunch, where I investigated the racial divide in swimming to help find out why only 2% of mixed race and black ethnic minorities take up swimming. During the investigation, I interviewed Blue Peter Presenter Ayo Akinwolere and Britain’s first GBR Female Swimmer Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell to find out their perceptions on this topic.
Ayo also challenged me to a 25m swimming race… so we went head to head in Tooting Bec Lido to see who would win the race… hope you enjoy the video!
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Sates & Rapsys Shared Gold in the 2021 Swimming World Cup 200m Free | FINA
What a battle in the Men’s 200m FREE! 🇿🇦 Sates and 🇱🇹 Rapsys together until the end to touch home 1:41.73!
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🇦🇺 Emma McKeon Decisive Gold Medal for the Overall Swimming World Cup 2021 Win | FINA
🇦🇺 Emma Mckeon 👉 29 events swam ✖️ 10 🥇 The Australian pocketed a decisive gold medal in the 100m Freestyle to secure the overall title at the Swimming World Cup 2021
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Adam Peaty: “I’ve Forgotten How To Swim!” | On Demand Entertainment
Adam Peaty landed from winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics and made his way straight to the dance floor of Strictly Come Dancing. He said he hasn’t swum once since and hates wearing clothes! Report by Lucy Jones.
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Tokyo Superheroes | Svetlana Kolesnichenko. An Interview With Olympic Champion in Artistic Swimming
Artistic swimmers are all tied up hair, bright makeup, a serious expression, and well-honed movements? Svetlana Kolesnichenko will make you think again. The three-time Olympic champion opens up about the competition in synchronized swimming, the “golden” duet with Romashina, and the sacrifices in the name of top-level sport. All interspersed with plenty of infectious laughing!
