Swimming Pool Headlines
NJCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
The NJCAA men's and women's swimming and diving championships are 1-4 March at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas. Preview the swim meet, review the psyche sheets and heat sheets, or find the results for your favorite championship meet...
Swimming Games
Swimming is not supposed to be just an exercise - it should be fun, too. One way to add more fun to the water is to play an organized game. Many games that can be played on land adapt well...
Pugh Wins 500-Meter Swim at the World Winter Swimming Championships
The World Winter Swimming Championship 500-meter swimming race, in an ice-pool cut from the frozen estuary of the Oulu River in Finland - with the water at zero degrees C - was won by Lewis Gordon Pugh. Pugh is no...
Woman finds crocodile in swimming pool (Victoria Advocate)
The latest uninvited croc to turn up in northern Sydney was a 21-inch freshwater crocodile, a different species to the two-foot saltwater croc found on Feb. 23, said Australian Reptile Park spokeswoman Mary Rayner.
Why Does Shaving Down Make a Swimmer Faster?
Shaving down - shaving the hair off of a swimmer's body - is a common practice among swimmers during the end of swim season big swim meets. Does this swimming ritual really help a swimmer? Research says shaving down does...
Deconditioning / Detraining - How Fast Do I Lose Fitness?
Question: How fast do I lose fitness if I stop exercising? With fitness it's true that you use it or lose it. However, how quickly you lose it depends on how fit you are, how long you have been exercising...
What is the New Rule for Breaststroke Pullouts?
There is a new rule for breaststroke swimmers. You can do a dolphin kick off of the start and during a turn - but what exactly is the rule, and how is USA Swimming looking at it? (Wisconsin Swimming)...
Swimming pool row sparks appeal (BBC News)
A homeowner appeals after planning consent for the swimming pool he built in Brighton is refused twice.
Streator discussing fate of swimming pool (Pantagraph)
STREATOR - The "hole in the ground with water in it" cannot even hold water anymore, and City Manager John Kolata figures it's time to stop trying to save the city's 50-year-old public swimming pool.
Woman finds crocodile in Sydney swimming pool (Irish Examiner)
A woman found a small crocodile in her garden swimming pool in Sydney, a zoo spokeswoman said today, just weeks after another crocodile was found in a nearby pond.
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