Swimmer's Daily

  • A Jacksonville family is grateful to be alive this Memorial Day weekend, and the dad says it’s all because of his 7-year-old son.

    The brave youngster outswam a current that separated him from his father and 4-year-old sister in the St. Johns River near Mandarin Point on Friday.

    Steven Poust said he anchored his boat in the water while he fished and his kids swam around.

    Chase, 7, said while they were in the water, his sister, Abigail, let go of the boat because of a strong current, so he let go and they were both stuck.

    “I felt really scared,” Chase said.

    Chase didn’t have a life jacket on, but his sister did. She floated along with the current as their father jumped in the water trying to grab her while Chase tried to swim to shore.

    “I told them I loved him because I wasn’t sure what’s going to happen,” Poust said. “I tried to stick with both of them. I wore myself out. She drifted away from me.”

    But Chase kept swimming to shore.

    He said he would doggie paddle, then float on his back to make sure he wouldn’t tire himself out.

    “The current was going the opposite way of going to the boat and the shore so it was very hard to swim that way,” Chase said.

    See WSLS

  • The “99 Problems” rapper opens up about learning to swim after the birth of his daughter Blue and how he boycotted the Grammys in solidarity with the late DMX.

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    Fatherhood sent Jay-Z right into the deep end – literally! The hip-hop mogul revealed that he didn’t learn to swim until his and Beyoncé’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, was born, sharing on a recent episode of LeBron James’ HBO show “The Shop: Uninterrupted” that swimming wasn’t a skill he was especially interested in until he had the instinct to protect someone’s life that was more important to him than his own. I didn’t learn how to swim until Blue was born. There goes everything you need to know. This is a metaphor for our relationship. If she ever fell in the water and I couldn’t get her, I couldn’t even fathom that thought. I gotta learn how to swim. That’s it. That was the beginning of our relationship,” he said.

  • Recovery is one of the most overlooked parts of any athletes training. With proper eating, sleeping, and active techniques your body will be prepared to train harder and race faster. In this video, you will have me introduce 13 of my top foam rolling exercises to boost your recovery after a tough workout. You can do these exercises anywhere, at any time, an all you need is a foam roller. If you like the layout of this workout, you have my invitation to check out more content on The Apollo Athletic.

  • With the long weekend ahead and great weather in the forecast, Portland Fire & Rescue crews expect a lot more people to head to the water.

  • The summer Olympics are scheduled to open in Japan on July 23. But this week, the U.S. State Department issued a “Do Not Travel” advisory to the country. Japan is closed to tourists due to a fourth COVID-19 surge. The medical community there has repeatedly warned that holding the Olympic Games could be catastrophic to Japan’s universal health care system. Lucy Craft reports.

  • Zoe Skirboll is an Olympic hopeful and hoping to make the U.S. National Team as a swimmer and with her father Jim helping her, she’s well on her way.

  • Jumping into the deep end of anything and everything he does has never been a problem for Cody Simpson. He simply doesn’t know the meaning of the word impossible. At 13, he took off to America to make his name as a pop star. As unlikely as that ambition was, he succeeded way beyond his expectations. Now at 24, he’s diving into another dream. Cody wants to represent Australia in swimming at the Olympics. It sounds far-fetched, singer one day, swimmer the next, but after seeing the effort he’s putting into it, Karl Stefanovic says only a fool would write Cody off in the pool.

  • This year, 7 members of the Tide swim team in Virginia Beach will take their talents to Omaha to compete against the best in the country.