I Swim : Gifts For Swimmers 2012

Swimmer News

I -Swim

No Phelps, but Santa Clara swim meet has Olympic feel

By Elliott Almond Michael Phelps didn't enter Santa Clara Grand Prix for one of the few times in the past decade because the meet comes too close to the US Olympic swim trials in three weeks. Although many of the top American swimmers didn't travel to ...

U.S. swim trials bring out the Olympic hopefuls

By ELLIOTT ALMOND Olympic star Natalie Coughlin doesn't like the scheduling of the US swim trials that end a month before the London Games. "I hate how late we have our trials - and I always have," said one of the headliners of the 45th Santa Clara ...

Science and swimming in sync

She is the flier on Canada's synchronized swim team, the one projected into tricks through the air. The sport may appear graceful from poolside ? serene and feminine, but a closer look shows a dizzying test of skill, strength and flexibility.

Swimming Pools

I Swim

Swimming pools awash with bacteria

As we are getting into summer, the public swimming pools are inviting, but in the water a danger may lie according to a new study by the Water Quality and Health Council one in five admit to urinating in the swimming pool. The CDC also reports that ...

Swimming pool health: One in FIVE urinates in swimming pools and 70% don't ...

By Beth Stebner While most may see the local public pool as a respite from the summer heat, one in five sees it as a bathroom. A shocking new survey claims that a full 20 per cent of those swimming and splashing about also relieve themselves in it.

Daily Five: Swimming Pool Alert and Pick-Your-Own Strawberries

Inflatable Swimming Pool Alert From the town of Durham Building Dept.: Inflatable swimming pools which can contain water over twenty four inches deep is a relatively new product which has been available to the Connecticut Consumer.

Synchronized swimming

I Swim

Science and swimming in sync

She is the flier on Canada's synchronized swim team, the one projected into tricks through the air. The sport may appear graceful from poolside ? serene and feminine, but a closer look shows a dizzying test of skill, strength and flexibility.

Synchronized Swimmer Dreams of Olympics

US Olympic synchronized simmer Maria Koroleva, of Concord. usasynchro.org The path to the London Olympics makes a splashdown in Walnut Creek as the US team's synchronized swimming duet rehearses their routines in a June 16 exhibition.

Clowns may not work for Canadian synchronized swimmers in London

According to CTV, Synchro Canada is choosing to have a humorous performance at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. For the free team program, the Canadian synchronized swimmers are set to dress up as clowns and perform "The Circus" by Cirque-du-Soleil.

Swimming Lessons

Swim lessons help minority children break cycle

In 2007, she started the Josh Project, a nonprofit that provides low-cost swimming lessons for children in Toledo, Ohio. "After losing my son, I wanted to do something to help other people, to help another mother not have to suffer the way I do every ...

Minority Children Urged to Take Swimming Lessons

Part of this initiative works with the Y, the American Red Cross, public schools and other community organizations to boost access to free swimming lessons. Inez Tenenbaum, the commission's chairman, told the Associated Press, ?We are focusing on ...

Swim lessons can help parents keep kids safe around water

Hubbard Family Swim School is booking swim classes right now with kids as young as a few weeks old to get them swimming and, more importantly, comfortable in the water. If you haven't decided to put your kid in swim classes just yet or if you can't do ...