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With summer around the corner, here is some advice to keep your friends and family safe while at the pool.

Here is some advice for swimming in natural bodies of water, like rivers and lakes.

Here are some tips to ensure that you and your loved ones stay safe during your next beach day.

A backyard pool promises endless summer fun, but it also comes with the huge responsibility of keeping little ones out of harm’s way. Follow these tips on how to maintain a safer home pool and help prevent a tragedy.

Experts warn that more children drown in open bodies of water — lakes, ponds and rivers — than in swimming pools.

A swimming pool that stretches from one apartment block to another at over 100 feet from the ground is due to open soon in London. 

Making the Olympic team is rarely easy, and even less so when it comes to competing in the pool against the deep squad of American swimmers, so Regan Smith will take every bit of luck she can find, even down to wearing the right shoes.

A 21-year-old swimmer in Egypt set a new Guinness world record for the “highest jump out of water wearing a monofin.”

The Australian singer is closing out 2020 with an incredible bang. On Saturday, Dec. 12, the 23-year-old star shared the exciting and special news that he’s one step closer to trying out for the 2021 Olympics.

High school junior Isabella Earll says she had big goals for this year’s swimming season at Oak Forest High School. “When you’re a junior in high school and in sports, the big thing is scholarships,” Earll said. But swimming is now on hold at Oak Forest High School, Tinley Park High School, and Bremen High School after Bremen High...

Parents of High School District 228 are protesting the school district’s decision to postpone the four remaining fall sports approved by the IHSA. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

It wasn’t long ago that Grace Hagemaster placed 11th in the 100 backstroke at the State Girls Swimming & Diving Meet. In the aftermath of that accomplishment, she felt driven to work hard and finish higher next season. But since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the 16-year-old has barely been able to get in the water. “It was really…

Cooling off during the summer will likely look different in the age of the pandemic, with many people asking: Can the virus that causes COVID-19 stay active in pool water?

Just before Jaden Olson got set to swim for a state championship in the 100 yard backstroke, the Jones College Prep senior took a moment to reflect on the journey that brought him to the brink of a potential title. “I realized it’s the last swim of my whole high school career, so I was just going to let it…

Mac Miller’s family announced a new album from the late rapper will be released on Jan. 17, NBC News reports. The forthcoming album, “Circles,” is a companion project to Miller’s 2018 album “Swimming.”

Two-time NCAA champion Abrahm DeVine is accusing his former team at Stanford of homophobia and claiming that he was kicked off the team because he is gay, NBC News reported. “Plain and simple: There are surface-level reasons I was kicked off the Stanford swim team, but I can tell you with certainty that it comes down to the fact that...

A high school student in Anchorage, Alaska, was disqualified from a state championship because her swimsuit did not cover enough skin.

A spokesman for Jussie Smollett maintained that the actor is innocent in a statement Tuesday, responding to the city of Chicago’s recent court filing in a lawsuit seeking more than $130,000 for reimbursement of investigative costs. “Regardless of what is said by the city, every iota of information Jussie Smollett has stated has been fully corroborated by the police documents,”...

Timothy Bannon, a suburban teen born without arms will swim, bike and run among thousands of triathletes in Chicago on Saturday.

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