Because of the energy crisis, many indoor pools remain closed. A development that can be life-threatening for children, says two-time world champion Franziska van Almsick. A conversation about learning to swim.This winter it will be cold in Germany's swimming pools. In many places, the operators are lowering the water and room temperatures. Because of the gas and electricity prices that have risen as a result of the energy crisis, some local authorities can no longer bear the costs. Some save...
Franziska van Almsick, 44, former world-class swimmer has "great concern" about children's swimming education because of the energy crisis. "Many pools remain closed or are closed. Not only is it difficult to organize to get the children into the water, but now the water surfaces are also disappearing," said van Almsick in an interview with the German Press Agency. Swimming is important in many aspects of life. "If you can't swim, you'll drown." It was absurd: "Months ago the bathrooms...
A red banner runs across the screen on the Obermaintherme Bad Staffelstein website: "All saunas are open - the water temperature has not been lowered!" At other times, that would be a superfluous, even irritating, hint. "It's just that this year isn't normal," says thermal bath manager Hans-Josef Stich. Getting saunas up to temperature and heating pools of water takes a lot of energy, and that has become an expensive commodity since the Russian attack on Ukraine. Unlike Hans-Josef Stich...
In view of the increased energy prices, many baths and thermal baths in Bavaria are reducing the water temperatures or closing their saunas and steam baths. The health resorts fear existential consequences. source site
Like so many things in the coming winter, wellness will probably also look different: If you prefer to while away the cold season in bubbling whirlpools, heated swimming pools or in the sauna, you will unfortunately have to reschedule. Due to the extremely high energy costs, more and more public bathing establishments in the district are turning down the temperatures. In this way, one hopes to be able to save electricity and yet not have to close it down.In Kirchseeon,...
In Bavaria, more people died in swimming accidents by the end of the summer than in the same period last year. The number of fatal swimming accidents in Bavaria by the end of August had risen from 49 to 54, said the regional association of the German Life Saving Society (DLRG) in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz on Wednesday. This means that the most fatalities in swimming accidents nationwide were reported in Bavaria during this period.A spokesman for the DLRG state...
What makes Rick DeMont's ears glow are the stories of the college boys. For example, when Mark Spitz, the superstar on the US swimming team, brags about his womanizing. DeMont is 16 years old, the youngest in the team and yet, as the world record holder in the 1500 meter freestyle, is hoping for a medal at the Olympic Games in Munich. Beyond the pool, the curly-haired lanky from San Rafael, California likes to hang out in the Olympic Village...
A swimmer got into trouble in the Swabian town of Wittislingen (district of Dillingen an der Donau) after getting caught in aquatic plants in a river. According to the police, the 66-year-old suffered from circulatory problems. A relative of the man and a passer-by pulled him from the Egau. The man suffered mild shock and was taken to the hospital as a precaution. source site
The Prinzregentenbad can no longer open its outdoor pool area until the end of this summer season on Monday, September 12th. The fire in the sauna area caused major damage to the main building.The reports on pollution are still pending, but according to the municipal utility, the experts unanimously advocated not opening the outdoor area to the public for safety reasons. Investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing. It will only be decided in a few weeks whether...
After the allegations of abuse by the former world-class water jumper Jan Hempel in the direction of his then coach Werner Langer, public funding for the German Swimming Association (DSV) is in the room. Mahmut Özdemir (SPD), Parliamentary State Secretary responsible for sport in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, said in a contribution of the "Sportschau" on Sunday that an association "that tolerates sexualised violence, doping or other interpersonal violence does not explain or cover up - such associations...
