Swimmer's Daily

  • There’s nothing like diving into a cool swimming pool on a scorching hot summer day. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have our own pools and worse, the pandemic has kiboshed most public pools.
    Enter Swimply, the brainchild of 23-year-old entrepreneur Bunim Laskin, a website and app that matches swimmers with available swimming pools. Laskin conducted a pilot version in the summer of 2018 and pitched his idea for an “Airbnb for pools” on an episode of the television show “Shark Tank” that aired earlier this year. He didn’t get that funding, but regardless, his nascent pool-sharing enterprise is off to a swimmingly good start.
    “Owning a pool can be expensive, enjoying one doesn’t have to be,” said Laskin, Founder and CEO of Swimply, in a press release. “We are seeking to democratize the pool experience so that everyone can enjoy an instant escape from reality, even if it’s just to another backyard down the street.”

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  • Manuel, who has been social distancing and training in California amid the pandemic, continues on to explain how the Olympics postponement has pushed her.

    “It switched my training mindset to really spend time focusing on technical aspects of my swimming that I know needed improvement … and now I have extra time to improve on some of my weaknesses. But I think just beyond that, it allows me a chance to set higher goals for myself,” the swimmer explains. “I have an extra year—why not kind of push the limit and see if I can get to these lofty goals that I have for myself?”

    The star athlete says she’s kept up with her training “in a local backyard pool” with USA teammate Katie Ledecky and their coach.

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  • Swim practice is going to look very different once pools reopen. 🏊

  • A public swimming pool in Essen, the Grugabad, opened its doors again this Thursday after a lengthy closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. People could be seen swimming in the pool, following social distancing rules, Friday.

    No more than 1,000 individuals are to be allowed into the complex of pools at the same time and people must maintain distancing both inside and outside the water.

    The opening of public pools is a milestone in the return to business as usual after the coronavirus lockdown, as gyms and other fitness facilities remain closed in other German states, including Berlin.

  • Swimming is off limits at city beaches, but residents in Queens are demanding lifeguards be put on duty anyway after a man drowned Friday at Rockaway Beach; CBS2’s Kiran Dhillon reports.

  • Under state health guidelines, public pools, splash pads, and swim beaches are now allowed to open in Arkansas, just in time for Memorial Day weekend.

  • Parents are turning to ISR swim lessons to prevent childhood drownings.

  • Relive Russia’s sensational performance in the Team Free Final at the 2009 edition of the FINA World Championships in Rome and witness, once again, artistic swimming mastery! The Russian team with Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina won the Gold Medal in a remarkable fashion.

  • In the first episode of The Process, we follow Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen’s art and architecture collective, Snarkitecture as they take over the National Building Museum with their latest installation, ‘The Beach.’ Comprised of nearly a million monochromatic, translucent, recyclable balls, ‘The Beach’ takes visitors on a new kind of summer getaway where they can “splash” about in a 10,000 square-foot ball pool. See how the designers turn the Museum’s Neoclassical Great Hall into contemporary monochromatic experience. The installation runs in Washington D.C. until September 7th.