TCU Men, Women Lead After Day 1 of UIW Christmas Invitational

The TCU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams lead the field after the first day of competition at the University of the Incarnate Word Christmas Invitational at the Palo Alto College natatorium. The TCU men and women combined for six wins to highlight the first...

Swimmer skin tough as leather?

Swimmer skin tough as leather? I don’t know, this is another Welsh news story destined for a BBC mini-series special starring Helen Mirren. " “Swimmer, 84, in sea rescue at Treaddur Bay, Anglesey A...

Diana Nyad Suffers Asthma Attack, Stops Key West Swim

Diana Nyad Forced to Abandon Cuba-Key West Swim after 29 Hours After 28 consecutive hours of swimming, marathon swimmer Diana Nyad suffered an asthma attack. She kept swimming for another hour, trying different...

Diana Nyad Trying 103-Mile Swim, Cuba to Florida, No Shark Cage

Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad, 61, who is trying to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, was battling asthma, shoulder pain and a counter-current Monday afternoon as she swam through the Florida Straits, according to updates on her...

Diana Nyad Begins Havana-Key West Swim: No Shark Cage

Diana Nyad: 61-year-Old Swimmer Starts 103-Mile Journey Diana Nyad is taking another swing from Havana to Key West. The 61-year-old swimmer is not the first to make the journey: Australian marathon swimmer Susie...

Who is Ashley Finestone (Photo): Michael Phelps Secret Girlfriend

Michael Phelps Reportedly Has a Secret Girlfriend Named Ashley Finestone. Here is a Ashley Finestone Photo After winning a zillion gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps earned a reputation as a guy...

Over one thousand swimmers stung by jellyfish in Florida

You can call it the attack of the jellyfish as it is something out of a horror show.  Uncountable numbers of purple jellyfish are attacking swimmers and over 1,600 people have already been stung.These could be...

Francis Crippen: Swimmer Dies During Open-Water Race

US Swimmer Fran Crippen Dies During Race in United Arab EmiratesFrancis Crippen, a 26-year-old Olympic hopeful, died while competing in the Marathon Swimming World Cup. The 10km race took place in Fujairah, UAE. Preliminary examinations suggest that Fran Crippen died of...

Jake Satherley & Spencer Jeames: Nippers Save Drowning Man

Jake Satherley and Spencer Jeams, two eight-year-old boys from Gold Coast, Australia, saved a man from drowning in a riptide off Northcliffe Beach in Surfers Paradise.  These two young badasses swam out with...

Lewis Gordon Pugh To Swim Mt Everest Waters For Climate Change

British endurance swimmer and environmental activist Lewis Gordon Pugh will be swimming under the summit of Mt Everest to raise awareness for the importance of protecting the glaciers of the Himalayas. These...

Dirty Little Secret (Aug. 4, 2009)

The sewage systems for communities on the Great Lakes are actually designed to dump 15 billion litres of sewage into local waterways every year. To get a better sense of what sewage pollution is being reported,...

Hironoshin Furuhashi, VP of FINA, dies at 2009 Aquatics Worlds

Hironoshin Furuhashi, the vice president of FINA -- a swimming governing body that is in charge of organizing annual aquatic world competitions, has died on the last day of the 2009 aquatic world championships. There are reports Furuhashi died in his sleep. He was 80. "...

Phelps Comes Back With A Bang, A Roundup Of Performance At Worlds

Michael Phelps made a giant leap for himself at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, unbattered by months of controversy and media infiltration heading into the Worlds. The Comeback Michael Phelps had a...

Paul Biedermann Beats Michael Phelps, Sets World Record

Paul Biedermann beat Olympic champion Michael Phelps in the 200-meter freestyle at the Fina World Championships in Rome.  The German came in with a time of 1:42:00, a new world record.Phelps was first off the blocks, but Biedemann took the lead at the first turn."He...

Ricky Berens Swimsuit Malfunction: Swimmer Rips Suit

First it was Flavia Zoccari. Now it's Ricky Berens. The American swimmer had a wardrobe malfunction during the World Swimming Championships. During a race, Ricky Berens ripped his suit at the seams, exposing his buttocks.  ""I kind of freaked out for just a second,"...

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