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  • We believe swimming, like walking, hiking, running, and cycling, is a critical healthy activity within our communities. Swimming does not require direct contact between teammates or coaches and social distancing can be maintained throughout practice. As with all exercise and activity at this time, swimming must comply with standards for social distancing and safety within aquatic facilities. We know, with collaboration between USA Swimming coaches, public health officials, and facility operators we can create safe plans for using aquatic facilities to promote physical and mental health opportunities compliant with public health directives. The CDC has indicated that there is no evidence the disease spreads through treated water. Proper operation and maintenance (including disinfection with chlorine and bromine) of these facilities should inactivate the virus in the water.

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  • Get inside the mind of one of the greatest female athletes of all time. In this episode of #FFTLIVE we interviewed TWELVE-TIME OLYMPIC MEDALIST and Legend Jenny Thompson. She was joined on the webinar by 5-time Olympian as both a swimmer and coach Brett Hawke along with Fresno State head coach Jeanne Fleck and McKendree University head coach Jimmy Tierney.

  • Milton Marlin alumnus Madison Macor was hoping to compete in the Olympic trials for the first time this year. Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to that goal. Macor is finding ways to keep training while waiting for the pools to open.

  • Lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder went viral last weekend after lurking around Florida beaches dressed as death himself in protest of beachgoers enjoying the sun without proper social distancing, putting their communities at risk of COVID-19. While many states around the country are extending their stay-at-home mandates, others, like Georgia, are easing into reopening nonessential businesses.

    Uhlfelder is not a fan — he, along with health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci, are cautious of society returning to normal so soon. He made an appearance on a local ABC station Friday to warn Floridians against flocking to beaches while the pandemic rages on.

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  • The parking lot was deserted. Classrooms were empty. There was an eerie silence on the last day of April while walking around Encino Crespi. Usually it’s a regular school day bustling with activity. But the coronavirus pandemic has left students and faculty communicating via on line. The main activity was taking place at the $10 million aquatics center under construction adjacent to the football field.

    The construction crew wore masks as they worked toward completing a long-awaited project that will include a 50-meter Olympic-size Myrtha pool, boys and girls team rooms and a separate plunge pool that will be used for rehabilitation.

    Crespi, joined by its sister school Louisville, hopes to unveil the new facility in August.

    “It’s really exciting,” said Crespi president Ken Foersch. “We’ve been looking forward to cutting the ribbon for a long time. We hope in August to cut the ribbon, to go into the classroom and jump into the pool.”

    Read Los Angeles Times

  • The European Aquatics Championships, originally scheduled to be held in Budapest from May 11 to 24, 2020, will be postponed to 2021 in view of the novel coronavirus epidemic, the organisers said.

    The exact dates will be decided at the European swimming league LEN’s November congress, Sándor Wladár, the head of the Hungarian swimmers’ association, told public news channel M1.

    The championships have already been postponed once, from May to August, he noted.

    Read Hungary Today

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  • The LEN Bureau held a videoconference and decided to cancel the European Junior Championships in all disciplines for 2020.

    This summer would have seen the best young swimmers racing in Aberdeen, the divers in Edinburgh, the artistic swimmers in Malta, the open water swimmers in France while Rome and Volos would have hosted the respective editions of the U19 water polo Europeans.

    Due to the Covid-19 crisis in Europe, the LEN Bureau had to take the painful decision to cancel all these events. The respective technical committees will prepare proposals if those age groups who have lost their chance to compete this summer (as they are to become over-aged next year) should be eligible to take part in 2021 or not.

    The summer and autumn legs of the LEN Open Water Cup are also canceled.

    In the coming weeks, the Bureau will discuss the options to finish the water polo club season and to find best possible dates for the 2020 European Aquatics Championships. The event would have started in ten days in Budapest but has already been postponed.

    Press release from LEN

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