Tag: COVID-19
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Keenan Robinson of USA Swimming Answers Questions about Training During COVID-19 Quarantine
USA Swimming Director of Sports Medicine and Science Keenan Robinson fields questions about training outside the pool during quarantine.
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A message from Swim England CEO, Jane Nickerson
Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson has a message for all of the Swim England family during the current coronavirus lockdown.
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Sydney beaches reopen with caution to public | Nine News Australia
Sydney’s Maroubra, Clovelly and Coogee beaches have reopened today, with activities including sand jogging, walking, swimming and surfing now allowed for exercise. Strict social distancing rules will be enforced, with sunbathing and sitting on the sand still banned.
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Lockdown Swimming Training Sees Shropshire Teen Swap Pool for Stream
A Shropshire teenager has swapped the pool for her garden stream so that she can keep training during the coronavirus lockdown.
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Coronavirus: State now says opening a swimming pool an essential service
After several weeks of being told they can’t schedule and get paid for opening residential swimming pools because it wasn’t considered an essential service, pool maintenance companies across New York have been given the green light to start offering the service again. “Yes, it’s our understanding that they now can start scheduling appointments,†said Dominick…
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Dr Phil – Swimming Pools, Cigarettes, & Pandemics – Sam Roberts Now
Sam Roberts talks about Dr. Phil’s comparisons of Corona to cigarettes and swimming pools, and the backlash to it, on Sam Roberts Now.
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Australia’s elite athletes turn to unusual training facilities during coronavirus crisis | ABC News
With the Olympics and Paralympics delayed and many training facilities closed, athletes have had to get creative to keep up their preparation for the Tokyo Games.
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Olympic swimming medalist decides not to wait for Tokyo in 2021
While the vast majority of Olympic hopefuls are continuing on for Tokyo in 2021, Rio Olympic swimming medalist Pieter Timmers decided that he will not. Timmers, the 2016 Olympic 100m freestyle silver medalist, will retire at the end of 2020, according to a Belgian swimming federation press release. Timmers said he could have competed for another year, but…
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Pressure mounts to reopen Bondi Beach
Pressure is mounting to reopen Sydney’s Bondi Beach as dawn surfers and swimmers break though barriers put in place as part of coronavirus protective measures.