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• A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds

  24-04-2025 01:39 via nytimes.com
  The $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park.
  
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• Cómo saber si el agua está demasiado contaminada para nadar

  29-03-2025 10:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Darte un chapuzón en el momento o el lugar equivocados puede enfermarte. Esto es lo que debes tener en cuenta.
  
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• Cómo saber si esa piscina es salubre

  29-03-2025 08:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Hay lugares más peligrosos que otros.
  
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• White House Expected to Pause $175 Million for Penn Over Transgender Policy

  19-03-2025 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The decision is the latest clash between a university and the administration as it pushes schools to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline, among other things.
  
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• $175 Million Paused for University of Pennsylvania Over Transgender Policy

  19-03-2025 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  The decision is the latest clash between a university and the administration as it pushes schools to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline, among other things.
  
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• Take This Quiz to Find the Perfect Trip for You and Your Picky Travel Buddy

  19-03-2025 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  You like long hikes, but your travel partner prefers lounging by the pool. Fear not: There’s a vacation you can enjoy together. Let us help you find one.
  
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• U.S. Investigation Into Global Antidoping Agency Continues Under Trump

  11-03-2025 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The World Anti-Doping Agency will report to its board that federal officials questioned one of its U.S. employees last month about the agency’s handling of positive tests by Chinese athletes.
  
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• Mark Thompson obituary

  25-02-2025 14:12
  My friend Mark Thompson, who has died aged 69 after a fall while travelling in Sri Lanka, was a key figure at Bristol’s characterful Henleaze Swimming club, based at Henleaze lake, a flooded limestone quarry to the north of the city.Mark joined the club in 1988 and became a committee member in 1990, at a time when it was in the doldrums, dealing with a drastically depleted membership, recurrent vandalism and worrying environmental issues. Continue reading...
  
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• S9, Ep2: Ellie Simmonds, Paralympian

  25-02-2025 06:00
  This week on Comfort Eating, Grace is joined by five-time Paralympic gold medalist Ellie Simmonds. At 30, Ellie has hung up her goggles and retired from swimming, but instead of claiming an early pension, she has turned her hand to disability activism and documentary making – in 2024 she won a Bafta for her documentary Finding My Secret Family. She talks to Grace about the food that sustained her gruelling swim training schedule, her celebratory McDonald’s order during the Paralympic
  
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• World Anti-Doping Agency Drops Defamation and Ethics Cases Against U.S. Officials

  20-02-2025 23:46 via nytimes.com
  
  The World Anti-Doping Agency withdrew a defamation lawsuit and an ethics case against American officials critical of its handling of failed tests by members of China’s Olympic swimming squad.
  
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• USA Swimming Foundation Gives Back to Community Ahead of Super Bowl LIX

  05-02-2025 23:30 via usaswimming.org
  <p>The USA Swimming Foundation, the philanthropic arm of USA Swimming, worked alongside the American...
  
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• Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; ’36 Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator

  31-01-2025 08:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.
  
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• Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator

  30-01-2025 00:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.
  
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• Estos son los errores más comunes que cometes al nadar

  29-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Nunca fui un gran nadador. Tras corregir algunos errores comunes, ahora puedo hacer una sesión de entrenamiento sólida en la piscina.
  
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• Heinz Kluetmeier, Inventive Sports Photographer, Dies at 82

  19-01-2025 19:55 via nytimes.com
  
  His work for Sports Illustrated included the renowned cover photo of the United States men’s hockey team celebrating their upset win at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
  
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• The Magic of Swimming Lessons in Middle Age

  14-01-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  I was never a great swimmer. After correcting a few common mistakes, I can now get a solid workout in the pool.
  
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• USA Swimming Honored with International Sports Convention Fan Engagement Award for 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials – Swimming, presented by Lilly

  13-01-2025 18:00 via usaswimming.org
  <p>USA Swimming has been awarded the prestigious International Sports Awards Fan Engagement Award - ...
  
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• Now Paris party is over, what does new year hold for GB’s Olympians?

  29-12-2024 09:00
  
  Gold, silver and bronze medallists reflect on what they did as 2024 broke and how they will celebrate 12 months onToby Roberts’ last New Year’s Eve is all a bit of a blur. It’s not that he was drinking – anything but – just that he was in the thick of such a hellish stretch of specialist winter training that the days have all blended into one. His father, and coach, Tristian, eventually reminds him that they spent most of it doing a strength session on a climbing bo
  
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• The best Australian sporting and Olympics moments – in pictures

  28-12-2024 15:00
  Breaking, swimming and a schoolboy superstar – here’s all the highs from the 2024 year in Australian sport. Continue reading...
  
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• Questions Emerge About Data Used by China to Defend Against Doping Allegations

  24-12-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  China and the World Anti-Doping Agency say that positive tests for a banned drug among elite Chinese swimmers were a result of unwitting contamination. But the science behind that assertion is not so clear.
  
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• Dawn Fraser ‘not out of the woods’ after serious injuries from fall, daughter says

  11-12-2024 05:16
  Daughter confirms swimming great broke four ribs and required a hip replacement after accident last weekFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDawn Fraser’s family has spoken of their fear of losing the Australian swimming great after she fell on the driveway of her home and sustained a broken hip and four broken ribs.Fraser, 87, is convalescing in hospital after the “scary” incident last week that initia
  
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• USA’s Gretchen Walsh smashes 15-year-old 50m butterfly world record

  10-12-2024 16:33
  Olympic champion beats mark set during ‘shiny suit’ era21-year-old in action at Short Course World ChampionshipsUS Olympic champion Gretchen Walsh continued her sparkling year by shattering the 15-year-old world record for the 50m butterfly on Tuesday.The 21-year-old set a mark of 24.02 in the heats of the 50m butterfly on the opening morning of the Short Course World Championships in Budapest. The previous record was held by Sweden’s Therese Alshammar, whose time of 24.38 came
  
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• Antidoping Agency Froze Out Investigators Who Warned About China

  03-12-2024 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The World Anti-Doping Agency’s investigative unit highlighted intelligence about Chinese athletes possibly using a banned medication, but were kept out of the loop when 23 swimmers tested positive for it.
  
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• 6 Warm Winter Getaways That Will Lift Your Spirits

  03-12-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Looking to take a break from the cold without traveling too far or spending too much? Here are some sunny, easy-to-reach places to beat the winter blahs.
  
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• Calida Rawles and Her Subjects Find Hope in the Water

  02-12-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  For her first solo museum show, Rawles invited residents of a historically Black neighborhood in Miami into the pool and ocean — and ultimately, the museum.
  
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• Experience: I was a lifeguard at the Olympics

  29-11-2024 11:00
  I don’t get starstruck, but you’d be crazy not to think it’s surreal when you’re standing next to someone like Michael PhelpsI was so excited about the London Olympics. I just wanted to be a part of it – I didn’t care if I was outside the venues dancing. A year before the Games, I thought, they’re going to need lifeguards, and Googled “London 2012 volunteers”.At the time, I was a lifeguard at the Telford and Wrekin leisure centre in Shro
  
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• Biden White House Holds Up U.S. Contribution to Anti-Doping Agency

  26-11-2024 00:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The administration is pressing the World Anti-Doping Agency to allow an outside audit after it failed to suspend Chinese swimmers for positive tests.
  
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• Emma McKeon, Australia’s most decorated Olympian, retires from elite swimming

  25-11-2024 00:55
  
  Athlete calls time with 14 Olympic medals to her name‘Swimming has given me so much,’ 30-year-old saysEmma McKeon, Australia’s most decorated Olympian, has announced her retirement from competitive swimming, bringing to a close a glittering career during which she won 14 Olympic medals, including six golds.The 30-year-old, who revealed this year that the Paris Games would be her last Olympics, said she had given her all throughout her career and was proud of her successes in th
  
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• San Jose State Women’s Volleyball Team Finds Itself at Center of Transgender Debate

  29-10-2024 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  After reports that the team includes a transgender player, several schools have forfeited matches against the university out of protest.
  
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• Adam Peaty: ‘I will 100% dedicate myself to LA 2028 if 50m breaststroke is in’

  07-10-2024 21:00
  The double Olympic champion on why the shorter sprint could drive him to another Games, the lack of support for his female coach and what needs to change in anti-doping“I think the 50m sprint is a great opportunity for me,” Adam Peaty says with a glint in his steely gaze as he reveals that, after winning two golds and a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke at three successive Olympic Games, he is ready to keep swimming until 2028. After a bid from World Aquatics, the sport’s g
  
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• Christian Louboutin Makes a Splash at Paris Fashion Week

  28-09-2024 16:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Christian Louboutin enlisted the French Olympic synchronized swimming team to introduce his new Miss Z stilettos at Paris Fashion Week.
  
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• College Investigating Report of a Student Scratching a Racial Slur on Another

  22-09-2024 23:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A family says their son, a member of the swim team at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, was victimized when a teammate etched the slur across his chest with a box cutter.
  
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• Beaches Close in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia as Needles Wash Ashore

  16-09-2024 15:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Beachgoers were urged to stay out of the water after dozens of hypodermic needles, as well as tampon applicators and other medical waste, were found on beaches over the weekend.
  
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• WADA Report Concludes China Broke Rules in Doping Case

  12-09-2024 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  An investigator hired by the global antidoping regulator found no bias toward China in a case that has outraged Olympic athletes and led to an F.B.I. investigation.
  
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• Australia’s Paralympic athletes’ final week in action in Paris – in pictures

  07-09-2024 04:03
  World records and gold medals have been just part of the story during the second week of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Here are some of the highlightsAustralia’s Tim Hodge calls for greater para-sport funding after winning third medal Continue reading...
  
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• Lindsay Mintenko Resigns as Managing Director of the National Team

  06-09-2024 21:15 via usaswimming.org
  Lindsay Mintenko, Managing Director of the National Team at USA Swimming, the national governing ...
  
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• Swimming Australia sack Olympic coach after ‘Go Korea’ comment at Paris 2024

  06-09-2024 02:25
  
  Michael Palfrey said he hoped South Korean would win 400m freestyleAustralia’s Elijah Winnington won silver with Sam Short fourthIn the tight-knit sport of swimming, the utterance of “Go Korea” from within the Australian camp is now a sackable offence.The position of Michael Palfrey as a Swimming Australia coach was terminated on Friday following his comment in support of a South Korean swimmer before the Paris Olympics that was dubbed “un-Australian” by his boss. C
  
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• From a shark attack to Paralympic silver: Truwit’s remarkable journey

  05-09-2024 21:16
  American wins medal just 16 months after losing a leg while Becky Redfern and Alice Tai win golds for Great BritainEven in the story-laden world of the Paralympics, where things are never monochrome, it is hard to trump getting your leg bitten off by a shark one year and swimming for medals in Paris the next.Yet that is the true tale behind the success of Ali Truwit, the 24-year-old former Yale competitive swimmer and now silver medallist at La Défense Arena in the S10 400m freestyle
  
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• 6 European Cities Where You Can Swim in the Wild

  04-09-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Looking to take a dip in or near a city center? Here are some urban areas that have successfully opened up waterways for swimmers.
  
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• Australia’s Paralympics 2024 glory: week one – in pictures

  03-09-2024 08:30
  Australia’s first-ever rowing gold, pool victory for mixed relay team and table tennis triumph as medals pile up in first week of Paris Paralympic Games The latest medal table | Full results Continue reading...
  
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• Britain's Sam Farrow claims women’s record for Lake Geneva crossing – video

  02-09-2024 12:32
  
  The British endurance swimmer, Sam Farrow, is believed to have broken a world record with the fastest swim by a woman across Lake Geneva. Farrow, a 31-year-old from Wigan, swam the length of the lake from the Château de Chillon to the Bains des Pâquis – a distance of 45.2 miles (72.8km) – in 22hr and 48min. "I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet," Farrow said. "We went out there to try and get the fastest British female record and just in hopes of finishing it.
  
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• The Lure of New York’s Secret Swimming Holes

  02-09-2024 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tucked into forests and often unmarked on maps, swimming holes offer relief from increasingly hot summers but also pose risks for adventure seekers.
  
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• British swimmer claims women’s record for fastest Lake Geneva crossing

  01-09-2024 17:42
  
  Sam Farrow, from Wigan, says she is in ‘complete shock’ after swimming 45.2-mile length of lake in 22h 48mA British endurance swimmer is believed to have broken a world record for the fastest swim across Lake Geneva.Sam Farrow, 31, from Wigan, swam the length of the lake from the Château de Chillon to the Bains des Pâquis – a distance of 45.2 miles (72.8km) – in 22 hours and 48 minutes. Continue reading...
  
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• ParalympicsGB enjoy Super Saturday in pool as Clegg, Ellard and Tai win gold

  31-08-2024 19:17
  Trio of swimmers take gold in flurry at La Défense ArenaMaskill adds a silver and Fiddes bronze in medal delugeParalympicsGB swimmers enjoyed a Super Saturday in Paris, collecting five medals – including three golds – in a 40-minute flurry at La Défense Arena, and breaking two world records in the process.The deluge helped solidify Great Britain’s spot in second place in the medal table – China having disappeared over the horizon at the top – on a day
  
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• Athlete Accused of Abuse Had Harassed Other Paralympians, Lawsuit Claims

  31-08-2024 17:40 via nytimes.com
  
  A para swimmer who sued the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee in 2022 now says it knew that the teammate he accused of rape was a threat.
  
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• Maisie Summers-Newton overcomes nerves to retain Paralympic medley title

  30-08-2024 19:46
  
  Briton destroys field in SM6 200m individual medley‘I have a lot of self-doubt, no matter how hard I train’Maisie Summers-Newton says she had to overcome “a lot of self doubt” on making her return to the Paralympic pool in Paris. Watching on you would not have known it, however, as the 22-year-old destroyed the field to retain her Paralympic title in the women’s SM6 200m individual medley on Friday night.A breakout British star of the Tokyo Games, where she won two
  
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• Poppy Maskill earns ParalympicsGB’s first Paris gold with world-record swim

  29-08-2024 23:32
  Teenager wins ‘unreal’ S14 100m women’s butterflyTully Kearney adds second gold in S5 200m freestyleBritain’s first gold medal of the Paralympic Games went to a teenager, and in world record time, as Poppy Maskill cleared the field in the pool to win the S14 100m women’s butterfly, a moment she described as “unreal”.The 19-year-old from Middlewich, competing in her first Paralympics, led from the front and held off the challenge of Hong Kong’s Yui
  
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• ‘We lived one day at a time’: how Ukraine’s Paralympians kept their dream alive

  26-08-2024 13:08
  Displaced from their homes and bombed-out training facilities, Ukraine’s Paralympic swimmers have somehow still made it to ParisAt the near end of the pool hangs a banner depicting a soldier, standing in a field of golden corn underneath a rich blue sky. A column of tanks stretches behind him and overhead flies a national flag that the scene’s essential elements are designed to replicate. “I believe in the armed forces, glory to Ukraine!” reads the accompanying slogan. Be
  
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• Three things with Michael Klim: ‘If times get really tough, I can always sell my Olympic medals’

  25-08-2024 17:00
  In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the athlete turned author shares why he doesn’t keep his trophies at home – and the object he can’t live withoutRead more Three Things interviewsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLike many of us, Michael Klim spent much of the past month tuning into the Paris Olympics. Unlike most viewers, however, the two-time gold medallist could relate to how the athletes on screen were feeling.“There’s some g
  
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• Michigan Doctor Accused of Recording Nude Images in Hospitals and Changing Rooms

  23-08-2024 00:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Dr. Oumair Aejaz recorded women and children in a swimming school’s changing room, the police said. The authorities also say he filmed patients in hospitals.
  
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