CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux sat down with Summer McIntosh after she set three world records and five national records at the Canadian swim trials in Victoria, B.C.
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The Secret to Getting Faster Has Nothing to Do With Swimming | Eetu Karvonen
What if I told you the real gains happen outside the pool?
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Let’s Talk About The Enhanced Games | Kyle Sockwell
After receiving countless DMs about the Enhanced Games, I finally decided to talk about it. All in all, I find it pretty uninteresting. A former swimmer got jacked and then some other former swimmer threw on a bodysuit in an empty pool and went kind of fast. What now? It’s redundant, it send the wrong message to young swimmers, and the marketing copy used surrounding these “World Records” is weak.
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Swimming With Sharks: Lewis Pugh’s Mission to Save Our Ocean | UN Environment Programme
For decades, sharks have been portrayed as killing machines.
However, it’s humans who kill an estimated 274,000 sharks every single day.
50 years after the movie Jaws hit the big screen, UN Environment Programme Patron of the Oceans @lewis.pugh is swimming 96km around Martha’s Vineyard to rewrite the narrative and challenge long-held fears about sharks.
To Save Our Ocean, we must protect its apex predator.
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Kaylee McKeown’s Ultimate Heartbreak & Triumph | 60 Minutes Archives
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Swim Instructor Discusses the Importance of Infant Swimming Resource Ahead of Summer | CBS 8 San Diego
Certified Master ISR Instructor Brad Hurvitz spoke with CBS 8 about the difference between Infant Swimming Resource and traditional swim lessons.
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Penny Oleksiak on Learning to Love Swimming Again | CBC Sports
Canada’s most decorated Olympian, Penny Oleksiak, has been on Team Canada going on ten years now, and she has had a love-hate relationship with the sport that made her a super star. She tells our Devin Heroux more about the new career chapter she’s finding joy in.
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The Toughest Swim in the World: What It Takes | Global Triathlon Network
The English Channel – 21 miles of cold water, strong currents, and swirling tides. It’s one of the toughest endurance challenges out there. But how hard is it really?
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Stranger Saves 6-Year-Old Boy From Drowning in Pool: ‘I Just Did What I Had to Do’ | KEYC News Now
A 6-year-old boy who started drowning in a Florida swimming pool is alive, thanks to a stranger who rushed to help.
Surveillance video shows the terrifying moment last Wednesday when 6-year-old Oscar went underwater in a Fort Lauderdale swimming pool and began struggling to breathe.
Roque Ivan Ocampo heard screaming and ran to help, tossing his shoes and diving into the deep end. He pulled Oscar to the surface, someone helped them out of the water and he quickly began lifesaving measures.
“I started doing CPR. The kid wasn’t breathing, but I keep doing it and doing it until he started breathing again,” Ocampo said.