SYDNEY ― Many of Sydney’s iconic beaches, including the famed Bondi Beach, were closed Thursday after an ocean swimmer was killed by a shark, the first fatal attack in the city in almost six decades, authorities said.The man, who has not been identified, was swimming at the city’s Little Bay, a popular spot for families,…
(alessandro0770/iStock/Getty Images) Lia Thomas, the transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer who has set women’s swimming records this season after previously competing as a male, was defeated in two events on Saturday — by another transgender athlete. Earlier this season, Thomas set pool, program, and meet records, 38 seconds ahead of the next-closest female Penn swimmer…
TOKYO — Make it five for Caeleb Dressel. The American star won his fifth gold medal of the Tokyo Games, finishing off one of the great performances in Olympic history. He joins an elite club of just four other swimmers with at least five gold medals at one Games. Dressel swam the butterfly leg as the…
Her push off the pool wall in Tokyo could be the power move that propels the young Canadian to medal glory If a swimmer excels at the underwater kicks after a wall turn, ‘that can really become a weapon,’ says Mac Neil’s former coach (François-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images) Inside the state-of-the-art Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre,…
Posted June 5, 2021 10:46 pm A swimmer died following an incident in Crowe River in Havelock-Belmont-Methuen Township on Saturday morning.According to Peterborough County OPP, around 11:45 a.m. emergency crews were called to assist after a male swimmer failed to surface in the Crowe River.The victim was in the river with a friend when he…