SWIMMING

Tessa takes a closer look at Joasis, a place for dogs to learn swimming and dock diving.

According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the possibly 50-year-old man was last seen swimming at Magnolia Garden. It was said the man swam to a small island, then was seen swimming to the other side of the San Jacinto River.

It’s pool season and with all the fun that comes with that, also comes some danger for inexperienced swimmers.

Sabrina Whittembury put her children in swim lessons at just a few years old.

The City of Houston said they have 24 pools open on alternating days, but 10 pools are staying closed because of a nationwide lifeguard shortage.

Only 14 of the city’s 37 pools are open as of mid-July, with no guarantees that any more of them will open this summer.

As we know, a great way to beat the heat is by jumping into a pool, lake, or even the bay. Sadly, it’s during the summertime that drowning is a leading cause of accidental death for children younger than five.

A Team USA Artistic swimmer was dramatically rescued by her coach after she appeared to faint in the water during the world aquatics championships in Budapest on Wednesday.

Jorge Bartio said he’s been going to the Memorial Park pool every summer for the last 50 years.

Today kicks off a long holiday weekend for many, Memorial Day, the unofficial start to summer.

City pools across the nation are dealing with staffing issues and struggling to find lifeguards for the summer.

Today, on KPRC 2+, Tony Guillory, Association Director of Aquatics at the YMCA of Greater Houston, offered some water safety tips for parents and children and discussed the swim programs YMCA offers.

Either exercising more or achieving greater fitness goals are usually popular New Year’s resolutions for people, but have you thought about an even bolder resolution that will ensure you either get or remain in great shape?

Rice University swimmer Ahalya Lettenberger has won a silver medal at the Paralympics in Tokyo.

Simone Biles will compete. That’s the word from Japan regarding the elite gymnast from Spring. After withdrawing from several Olympic events due to a condition dubbed the ‘twisties’, a resilient Biles appears to be ready to compete on the balance beam. All-around champ Sunisa Lee is also in the beam line-up very early Tuesday morning.

Well, that was as fast as Caeleb Dressel swimming the 50-meter freestyle.

On your mark... get set... go!

Before we look to what’s on the Olympic line-up on this Saturday night in Houston, let’s fast forward to early tomorrow morning. Expect to wake up to a lot of spoilers if you sleep through the next gymnastics events in Tokyo.

We’ll talk gymnastics, promise. PLUS track, because there’s a really fast Houstonian racing tonight. But first...

The biggest shock of the Olympic Games remains Simone Biles leaving the team competition. This morning, we learned she would not compete in the individual All-Around events taking place Thursday in Tokyo either.

In a matter of nine hours, we felt the extreme joy of Olympic achievement and the heartache when things don’t go as expected.

Future University of Texas Longhorn Lydia Jacoby won gold on Monday evening in the 100-meter breaststroke.

Five years ago the world got to know two remarkable athletes with more in common than a shared name. Simone Biles and Simone Manuel both list the Houston-area as home and they each dominated their sports at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

A 10-year-old boy is being celebrated for his heroic acts after swimming to the bottom of his apartment complex’s pool to pull a 5-year-old girl out.

We lost a lot last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of those things was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Sugar Land’s Simone Manuel is Tokyo bound!

HOUSTON – Since the weather has been warm and beaches have opened, people have questioned the safety of swimming during the coronavirus pandemic. Public swimming pools fall under the governor’s plan to reopen businesses starting Friday if they operate at 25% capacity. Are pools safe? Plus, they said at the pool, proper operation and maintenance, including disinfection with chlorine, should inactivate the virus in the water. Can heat kill the virus?