Swimmer's Daily

Month: October 2011

  • FINIS launches Stroke Lab, Web-Based Video Analysis Tool

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    FINIS® today announces the availability of Stroke Lab, under the slogan “Video Stroke Analysis, Made Easy”. This web application allows you to upload and distribute your videos online, and has a video editor that allows coaches to slow down the video, make audio or text comments to them, and use various drawing tools to illustrate…

  • Walliams had bugs laying eggs in his guts during Thames swim

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    Nice, while swimming the length of the Thames, David Walliams contracted the diarrheal infection Giardiasis, from the exposure to sewage contaminated water. And tore a disc in his back. Giardiasis or ‘beaver fever’ is an infection of the small intestine by a single-celled organism called Giardia lamblia, that breeds by laying eggs in your intestines…

  • The Bora Bora Liquid Festival looks good

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    The Bora Bora Liquid Festival is a 7-day celebration of sports and ocean-based endurance events taking place on Bora Bora, Polynesia’s most beautiful island atoll. 2010 marked the introduction of the Bora Bora 5km swim, which is fast becoming one of the festival’s highlights, unpredictable and challenging since the change the course each time the…

  • Push for WA ocean pools to keep swimmers safe from sharks

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    The Western Australian Government should spend $15 million on three ocean pools to give people a shark-free saltware option, the Opposition says. This after three fatal shark attacks in WA in seven weeks, prompting a proposal of “practical engineering solutions” to safeguard swimmers. Read thewest.com.au. Former world champion open water swimmer Shelley Taylor-Smith says after…

  • World’s longest swimming pool concept wins Holcim Gold Award

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    The 3rd International Holcim Awards for sustainable construction projects from across Europe were recently announced at a ceremony in Milan, with the German architectural firm realities:united taking first prize for its Flussbad proposal. We’re talking transforming a strech of the River Spree in central Berlin into a 745 meter “swimming pool”, purified naturally by a…

  • Shark Pool: Official Trailer

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    Please someone, listen to the geek !

  • FINIS Announces SwiMP3® 2G, an Underwater MP3 Player

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    FINIS has announced the immediate availability of the SwiMP3® 2G, an upgraded version of their award-winning underwater MP3 player that holds up to 2GB of music, twice as much as the original version, for a total of 30 hours or approximately 500 songs. Utilizing bone-conducting technology to deliver clear sound underwater, ear bud free. See…

  • USA Swimming launches Deck Pass

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    We’ve heard about it before, and now it is officially launced. USA Swimming’s Deck Pass, a new online and mobile application that lets swimmers track their best times, set goals and earn digital patches, share milestones with friends and family on Facebook, engage with USA Swimming, and that works as a tool for coaches too.…

  • Adlington makes a splash with 4-year-old Tae Smith

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    We heard about 4-year-old Tae Smith in July, who after only five months managed to take not only the planned 600 meters distance badge, but carried on until she was persuaded to stop at 2000 meters. Here is a British Gas Big Dip video with her and Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington. Via the17thman