Swimmer's Daily

  • The retrial in three-time Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang’s doping case will be held over three days next week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Tuesday.

    The court set May 25-27 for the hearing to be held in private by video link. Sun’s first hearing in November 2019 took one day, was opened to the media, and streamed live online at the request of his lawyers.

    A new CAS verdict is expected before the Tokyo Olympics open on July 23.

    The Chinese star’s eight-year ban for violating anti-doping rules was overturned on appeal to Switzerland’s supreme court last year.

    Federal judges ruled the guilty verdict unsafe because the chairman of the CAS panel of three judges, Franco Frattini, showed anti-Chinese bias in social media comments. Frattini is a former foreign minister in Italy’s government.

    The retrial will be judged by three different lawyers selected by the parties and the court.

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  • After years of dedication, training and hard work, it’s almost time for Para athletes to come together in Tokyo to make their dreams come true and celebrate human potential.

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  • The Spanish government has deployed troops to Ceuta to patrol the border with Morocco after thousands of migrants swam into the northern African enclave, a source from the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

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  • Swimming is a low impact and non-weight-bearing sport. You don’t have the constant weight of you body pushing down on your bones or joints. You don’t constantly crash into the ground either, the way you do when you are running. This is obviously good for your bones. Or is it?

    00:00 – Squishy bones?
    00:12 – No impact sport
    00:27 – Swimmers injured out of the water
    00:48 – Flexibility
    01:41 – Swimmers aren’t very mobile
    02:25 – Dry-land

  • Lifeguard Harrison saves an American woman wearing an outfit you’d wear to a ‘5 Star Hotel’ who turns out to be a lifeguard herself!

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  • Two Brockton boys, ages 12 and 13, drowned in a lake Saturday night where they had been skipping rocks in shallow water. One boy fell in near a steep drop off, the other drowned tried to rescue him.

    It can happen in a matter of seconds. Drowning is among the leading cause of young lives being lost across the country.

    Springfield Aquatic Director Joe Federico urges parents to make certain their children learn how to swim and how to encounter the dangers they face when they go into the water. Also, how to sensibly overcome those fears.

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  • A Florida man is speaking out after he unexpectedly came face-to-face with a bull shark.

    Freediver Captain John Moore and his crew were able to snap a few jaw-dropping photos of the predator after they met while spearfishing off of Florida’s east coast.

    “She was kind of unique in that she came powering right up through the other bulls, she was super dominant, sort of right in the forefront of everything,” Moore explained. “She was swimming right up to my mask, just kind of sizing up what was going on out there and she was just so impressive.”

    Bull sharks are believed to be among the most aggressive sharks in the ocean.

    See WHDH 7 NEWS

  • A top medical organization has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Games.

    The Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association representing about 6,000 primary care doctors said hospitals in the Games host city “have their hands full and have almost no spare capacity” amid a surge in infections.

    “We strongly request that the authorities convince the IOC (International Olympic Committee) that holding the Olympics is difficult and obtain its decision to cancel the Games,” the association said in a May 14 open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga which was posted to its website on Monday.

    A jump in infections has stoked alarm amid a shortage of medical staff and hospital beds in some areas of the Japanese capital, promoting the government to extend a third state of emergency in Tokyo and several other prefectures until May 31.

    Doctors would soon face the added difficulty of dealing with heat exhaustion patients during the summer months and if the Olympics contributed to a rise in deaths “Japan will bear the maximum responsibility”, it added.

    Read Reuters