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• New York Needs Lifeguards. Would These Teens Make the Cut?

  16-02-2026 09:00 via nytimes.com
  To qualify for a job patrolling the city’s beaches and pools, candidates must swim 50 yards in 50 seconds or less.
  
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• Cómo sobrevivir cuando se quiebra el hielo y caes al agua

  07-02-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  ¿La regla fundamental? No entres en pánico. Tienes más tiempo del que crees para salir por ti mismo o esperar a que llegue la ayuda, dijo un experto.
  
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• How to Survive a Fall Through the Ice

  05-02-2026 17:40 via nytimes.com
  The cardinal rule? Don’t panic. You actually have more time than you think to self-extricate or wait for help to arrive, an expert said.
  
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• Countries Have Long Tested Their Own Athletes for Doping. That Could Soon Change.

  02-02-2026 14:47 via nytimes.com
  After Chinese swimmers won Olympic gold in 2021 despite having tested positive for a banned substance, the World Antidoping Agency is considering whether to have an independent body handle testing before major events.
  
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• La cocina italiana, el maquillaje kohl y el ‘yodel’ son reconocidos por la Unesco

  11-12-2025 00:11 via nytimes.com
  La Unesco añadió decenas de candidatos a su lista anual del “patrimonio cultural inmaterial” del mundo, que celebra las costumbres y la cocina internacionales.
  
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• UNESCO Recognizes Italian Cooking, Kohl Makeup and Icelandic Pools

  10-12-2025 20:59 via nytimes.com
  The agency added dozens of nominees to its annual list of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage,” celebrating international customs and cuisine.
  
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• Swiss Yodeling, Italian Cooking and Iceland’s Swimming Pools Get UNESCO’s Stamp

  10-12-2025 20:59 via nytimes.com
  The agency added dozens of nominees to its annual list of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage,” celebrating international customs and cuisine.
  
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• After Deadly Attacks, Australia Debates: Do Shark Nets Work?

  03-12-2025 16:53 via nytimes.com
  Critics say the nets harm marine life and aren’t the best way to keep swimmers safe. Recent shark attacks have complicated a plan to remove some of them.
  
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• A Question Circling Sydney’s Beaches: Do We Still Need Shark Nets?

  03-12-2025 06:51 via nytimes.com
  Critics say the nets harm marine life and aren’t the best way to keep swimmers safe. Recent shark attacks have complicated a plan to remove some of them.
  
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• Penny Oleksiak Faces Two-Year Swimming Ban Over Antidoping Testing Rules

  25-11-2025 23:34 via nytimes.com
  Penny Oleksiak, 25, who has won seven Olympic medals, was sanctioned under antidoping rules. Her suspension ends before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
  
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• Penny Oleksiak, Canadian Swimmer, Faces 2-Year Ban Over Antidoping Testing Rules

  25-11-2025 23:34 via nytimes.com
  Penny Oleksiak, 25, who has won seven Olympic medals, was sanctioned under antidoping rules. Her suspension ends before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: prizes, punches, persistence and set-piece perfection

  31-10-2025 08:02
  Have you been following the big stories in football, cricket, rugby, boxing, darts, baseball and swimming? Continue reading...
  
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• Mollie O’Callaghan breaks 200m record – again – to end stunning week at Swimming World Cup

  25-10-2025 06:50
  Young gun betters her own short-course freestyle record set a week agoToronto meet is proving hugely successful for AustraliaMollie O’Callaghan has capped a brilliant week at the Swimming World Cup in Toronto, setting a new short-course world record in the 200m women’s freestyle. The 21-year-old Australian obliterated a star-studded field to touch in 1:49.36 on Friday, just seven days after setting a then new mark of 1:49.77.  Continue reading...
  
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• Ariarne Titmus retires just as she swam – at the top of the sport and uniquely herself | Kieran Pender

  17-10-2025 02:00
  Stepping away from swimming as current two-time world and Olympic champion at only 25 is another distinctively Titmus thing to doAriarne Titmus has always done things her own way.So it was when she first blazed to glory in 2019 – a teenager unheralded outside Australia, upstaging American swim queen Katie Ledecky on the world stage. So it was in 2022 when, as reigning world and Olympic champion, Titmus decided to skip the world titles. “I’ll definitely be asleep,” she tol
  
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• ‘People’s opinions aren’t going to pay me’: Ireland’s Shane Ryan on his decision to join Enhanced Games

  16-10-2025 15:08
  Swimmer who represented Ireland at three Olympics says controversial event provides chance to set up financial futureWhen Shane Ryan agreed to ­participate in the Enhanced Games – where performance-enhancing drugs are encouraged – he did not agonise: “I was like, you know what, let me do something for me for once. Let me make some money.”The swimmer represented Ireland at three Olympics, in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but all those years of training and sacrifice were not pa
  
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• Four-time Olympic gold medallist Ariarne Titmus announces retirement from swimming

  16-10-2025 00:56
  Titmus became first Australian woman since Dawn Fraser in 1964 to win back-to-back gold medals in the same eventSwimming great steps away as the current 200m freestyle world record-holderFour-time Olympic gold medallist Ariarne Titmus has announced her shock retirement from swimming, saying the seed was sewn by her cancer scare before the Paris Games.The 25-year-old, who grew up in Tasmania, will retire as one of the greatest distance swimmers of all time. Continue reading...
  
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• Swimming Australia moves to shut down Mollie O’Callaghan ‘fake quotes’ about transgender athlete

  13-10-2025 03:04
  Quote falsely attributed to star swimmer posted on Facebook and XWorld Aquatics rules bar Lia Thomas from competing in female categorySwimming Australia has moved to shut down “fake news” and “fabricated quotes” linked to swimmer Mollie O’Callaghan about transgender athlete Lia Thomas.A comment attributed to O’Callaghan but not posted from her social media account has appeared in posts on Meta platform Facebook, as well as on X, and suggested the swimming star
  
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• This club could be the future of Australian swimming – and it looks very different | Kieran Pender

  11-10-2025 21:00
  The sport is falling behind when it comes to diversity. But at one pool in Melbourne’s west, people are working hard to change thatIt is 6am on a crisp Friday morning at Broadmeadows aquatic centre in Melbourne’s north-west, and members of the Western Melbourne Propulsion Swim Club are doing laps under the watchful eye of their coach. It is a scene repeated every morning at pools across Australia. But at Broadmeadows, something is different.The composition of many of Australia’
  
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• Hampstead Heath swimming ponds considering limiting transgender users’ access

  04-10-2025 12:54
  Trans swimmers currently able to use a mixed pond or either of the segregated ponds for the gender they identify asA consultation has been launched on transgender swimmers’ access to Hampstead Heath ponds, which could result in them being banned from using the pools for the gender they identify as.The Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds are gender-segregated, with trans people currently able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the heath’s mixed-ge
  
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• Swimmers Dive Into Chicago River for First Time in Nearly a Century

  22-09-2025 23:13 via nytimes.com
  After decades of efforts to clean up the Chicago River from the loads of industrial and human waste that were routinely dumped in the water, hundreds of swimmers marked the occasion by swimming in the clean water.
  
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• 5 Hotels With Options for Wild Swimming

  15-09-2025 22:33 via nytimes.com
  These properties offer easy access to enticing natural waters, from a crystal blue Caribbean cove to bracing Scottish lochs.
  
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• ‘I’m here to help people, which gives me a superpower’: one man’s challenge to swim 10 Swiss lakes

  12-09-2025 12:59
  Neil Gilson is undertaking a huge mental and physical task to raise awareness of a neuropsychiatric condition that affected his son JackThe physical effort as he battles currents, coldness and wind is massive, but the mental challenge of ploughing on alone for hours on end is even more testing.Neil Gilson, a father of three from Devon, is about to set off on the next leg of his attempt to become the first person to swim the 10 largest lakes in Switzerland, a total of about 230 miles. Continue re
  
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• Ben Proud admits ‘huge financial incentive’ is behind decision to join Enhanced Games

  11-09-2025 14:05
  Swimmer is first British athlete to sign up for eventProud: ‘These are opportunities I cannot pass by at 30’The Olympic silver medallist Ben Proud, the first British athlete to sign up for the Enhanced Games, has accepted he risks sullying his reputation and admitted he is chiefly motivated by earning money in the twilight of his career.He told the BBC Today programme on Thursday: “There’s a huge financial incentive with this and I would be lying if I said it didn’t
  
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• Olympic medallist Ben Proud becomes first British athlete to join Enhanced Games

  10-09-2025 16:15
  Swimmer won silver for GB in Paris last summerEvent allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugsThe Olympic silver medallist Ben Proud has become the first Briton to join the Enhanced Games, an event that allows athletes to take ­performance-enhancing drugs.The 30-year-old, who came second in the 50m freestyle in Paris last summer, does not believe the event undermines clean sport. “I think [the Enhanced Games] opens up the potential avenue to excel in a very different way,
  
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• USA Swimming Foundation Opens 2026 Learn-to-Swim Grant Applications

  01-09-2025 17:00
  <p>The 2026 USA Swimming Foundation Learn-to-Swim Grant applications for lesson providers are now op...
  
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• Paris Will Keep Seine River Open to Swimmers for 2 More Weeks

  27-08-2025 16:31 via nytimes.com
  The city will extend its experiment with public bathing in the river until mid-September. Swimming there had been banned for a century over health risks.
  
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• Riley Gaines Finished 5th. Now She Believes Victory Is in Her Grasp.

  27-08-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The former college swimmer has used her race against Lia Thomas, a trans athlete, to propel her career as an influential, and unsparing, activist.
  
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• The Crawl review – madcap swimming comedy performed by synchronised duo

  24-08-2025 11:45
  Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
  Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker dive into multiple roles in a bubbly show with plenty of audience participationThis highly physical comedy about two competitive swimmers begins at the beginning – not with a referee’s whistle but a stand-alone aquatic opus racing through humans’ evolution from fish. In caps, goggles and bathing suits, Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker recount our abiding passion for the water, from the earliest forms of life t
  
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• The Water Cure

  23-08-2025 12:04 via nytimes.com
  Whether you swim furiously or float motionless, being in the water is a magical feeling.
  
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• Hurricane Erin Brings Rip Currents Closing NYC and NJ Beaches

  20-08-2025 01:05 via nytimes.com
  Beaches along the New Jersey coast and in Delaware were closed Tuesday as the powerful storm churned in the Atlantic. New York City announced its beaches would close on Wednesday and Thursday.
  
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• Michael Phelps is right. USA Swimming’s failure runs deeper than medals | Bryan Armen Graham

  15-08-2025 11:00
  The 23-times gold medallist warns of drift and weak leadership. Governance failures, and a troubled safeguarding record, could cost the US more than podium places at LA 2028In three years’ time, the swimming programme for the Los Angeles Olympics will unfold over nine days and nights on the grandest stage the sport has ever known. A purpose-built pool inside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will be the centerpiece of a 38,000-capacity open-air natatorium, transforming the $5bn home of the NFL&rsq
  
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• Michael Phelps launches scathing attack on ‘failing’ USA Swimming

  14-08-2025 13:50
  Olympic champion writes lengthy Instagram postAmerican says he would hesitate to let sons competeMichael Phelps has launched a scathing attack on USA Swimming’s leadership, with the 23-times Olympic gold medallist branding the body weak and demanding sweeping reforms after what he sees as years of organizational decline.“I’ve watched too many teammates struggle to compete in a sport they love without the support they need,” Phelps, who retired from competitive swimming in
  
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• I’m Old, but Not When I Swim

  06-08-2025 22:40 via nytimes.com
  In water, you have achieved the impossible. You’re young and old simultaneously.
  
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• Drunken Boater Hits Swimmers in N. Carolina Lake, Killing Girl, 10, Police Say

  05-08-2025 00:34 via nytimes.com
  A woman was also critically injured in the collision, which happened on Shearon Harris Reservoir, about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh, N.C., the authorities said.
  
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• Australia pipped by US at world swimming titles but Dolphins’ golden era endures | Kieran Pender

  04-08-2025 04:40
  Mollie O’Callaghan and Kaylee McKeown were not the only Australians to shine in Singapore, whether individually or collectivelyAustralia’s golden generation in the pool is going nowhere. That much, at least, was clear in Singapore over the past week, as the Dolphins ended the 2025 world championships on eight gold medals, just one shy of perennial rivals the United States. With some swimmers only recently back in the water following a post-Olympics break – Ariarne Titmus partic
  
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• US women set world record in relay at swim worlds, while Summer McIntosh wins fourth gold

  03-08-2025 16:11
  US break own record in last event of worldsChina’s 12-year-old prodigy Yu Zidi finishes off-podiumSummer McIntosh capped a brilliant world championships with the 400 meters individual medley (IM) title and a fourth individual gold medal, while the United States set a world record in the women’s 4x100 medley relay to win the final title in Singapore on Sunday.France’s Leon Marchand roared to victory in the men’s 400 meters IM, while the United States topped the medals tabl
  
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• How a Veteran Lifeguard Spends His Fridays

  02-08-2025 15:46 via nytimes.com
  Javier Rodriguez, 64, opens up the beach, tests out new lifeguards — and always squeezes in a morning swim before work.
  
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• Ledecky wins 800m freestyle world title over Pallister and McIntosh in classic

  02-08-2025 14:46
  Ledecky wins 800m freestyle in 8:05.62 CR timeMcIntosh settles for bronze behind PallisterUS star extends record with seventh world 800m titleKatie Ledecky once again proved untouchable in her signature event, holding off a star-studded field to win her seventh world title in the 800m freestyle on Saturday in Singapore, a feat no swimmer has ever achieved in a single event.The 28-year-old American delivered a championship-record 8:05.62 to edge Australia’s Lani Pallister (8:05.98) and Cana
  
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• Backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown pulls off another golden double

  02-08-2025 14:25
  Australian reels in US rival Regan Smith at world championshipsCameron McEvoy storms to 50m freestyle title in SingaporeKaylee McKeown, the world record-holder, underlined her status as the undisputed queen of backstroke as she added 200m gold to her triumph in the 100m at the world championships in Singapore on Saturday.Once again it was American Regan Smith attempting to take down McKeown, only to be reeled in on the last lap as the Australian clocked 2min 03.33sec, the third-fastest of all ti
  
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• Mollie O’Callaghan denied sprint double by Marrit Steenbergen at worlds

  01-08-2025 15:41
  Dutch swimmer pips Australian to 100m freestyle goldAustralia also take relay bronze in men’s 4x200m free The defending champion Marrit Steenbergen denied Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan a sprint double at swimming’s world championships on Friday as the Dutchwoman won 100m freestyle gold in Singapore.Steenbergen held off a late charge from O’Callaghan to touch the wall in 52.55sec, forcing her Australian rival to settle for second in 52.67. The US’s Torri Huske
  
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• China’s Yu Zidi, 12, wins relay bronze at world swimming championships

  01-08-2025 14:50
  Yu Zidi earns bronze in 4x200m freestyle prelimsWorld Aquatics mulls changes to age-limit rulesMcIntosh, Ledecky set up 800m title showdownChinese 12-year-old Yu Zidi has won a bronze medal at the swim world championships, an astounding feat for a girl who would be a sixth- or seventh-grade student depending on the school system.Yu earned the medal by swimming in the prelims of China’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay team. She did not swim in the final on Thursday – China placed third be
  
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• 9-Year-Old Girl Dies in Wave Pool at Hersheypark in Pennsylvania

  25-07-2025 21:11 via nytimes.com
  Lifeguards noticed that the girl was in distress and tried to rescue her, according to the park, which said that the pool remained closed on Friday.
  
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• 3 Men Who Disappeared While Fishing in the Mississippi River Are Found Dead

  24-07-2025 01:44 via nytimes.com
  The men were last seen on a sandbar south of a boat ramp in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, about 13 miles north of Memphis.
  
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• How to Perfect Your Dive This Summer

  23-07-2025 15:17 via nytimes.com
  Next time you go to the pool this summer, here are four ways to have fun on the diving board.
  
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• 5 Million Pools Are Recalled After at Least 9 Children Drown

  22-07-2025 00:48 via nytimes.com
  Children have been able to climb into the aboveground pools by using a compression strap on the outside as a foothold, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
  
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• El placer de tirarse un clavado de un trampolín

  17-07-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  Aquí tienes cuatro formas de divertirte para la próxima vez que vayas a la piscina esta temporada.
  
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• How to Protect Your Hair When Swimming

  14-07-2025 19:20 via nytimes.com
  Expert advice from a surfer, a hairstylist and a model.
  
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• No Summer Party Is Complete Without These Supplies

  11-07-2025 19:41 via nytimes.com
  Warm-weather items, including lightweight sun hats and hand-carved plates.
  
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• 6 Ways to Get Your Exercise Outside This Summer

  11-07-2025 18:03 via nytimes.com
  It’s the perfect time of year to try a new outdoor workout.
  
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• On a Magical Italian Island, Swimming, Stone and Sea

  09-07-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Favignana, off the west coast of Sicily, is known for its stone quarries, clear waters and fabled fish. A writer explores by land and by water.
  
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