Swimmer's Daily

Year: 2012

  • Are submarines the new yachts for the wealthy?

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    Some call it the final frontier. While humans have breached the limitations of land, air and space, the underwater world remains largely untouched. Read more here on ABC News

  • First Ever Underwater Marathon will be on September 9, 2012

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    Athletes’ Performance, the Andrews Institute and HydroWorx are hosting the first organized Underwater Marathon to raise funds to help heal wounded Special Forces soldiers on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 at Tröegs Brewery in Hershey, PA. The marathon will allow individuals and corporate teams to raise money for the Eagle Fund by running 5K, 10K, half-marathon…

  • Reporters say the darndest things

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    Video from James Magnussen’s 100 freestyle post race interview at the Australian Trials. Reporter says (@0:30): “Just pause it here as you’re coming into the wall, we’ll just get the boys to pause it. How important is the turn at this stage?”. Magnussen is being all polite and talking about ‘momentum’ and stuff … but…

  • Video: Ian Thorpe’s 200 freestyle semi at Australian Trials

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    Here it is, Ian Thorpe’s 200 meter freestyle semi-final at the Australian Olympic Trials, in full length. Painful to watch, and to listen to those reporters going “Ian-Ian-Ian” even though they have 7 other great Aussies in that pool. Found by Ricky Berens [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/RickyBerens/status/181891905427226624″]

  • The President, the Coach, the Champ and me

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    There I was, about to be beaten to a pulp by the former Danish 200 meter butterfly champion, now president of the Faroese swimming federation, the coach of Pál Joensen, and the guy who used to be able to do 100 pushups in 1 minute (and still probably can). Must work on my start, my…

  • Dubai testing the Sensa wristband lifeguard alert system

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    Trials of a lifeguard alert system called Sensa will begin in two weeks at several hotels in Dubai, if successful to be adopted by several of the emirate’s 20,000 pools. Swimmers are given wristbands containing a sensor that alerts the lifeguard’s pager if held deeper than 60cm underwater for more than 20 seconds. The complete…

  • Sounding the deepest spot on Earth with sonar

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    The day is getting ever closer, when James Cameron will go for the second ever dive down into the deepest abyss available, according to one commenter on Facebook as soon as weather conditions are calm enough to allow them to navigate to the dive site and make the descent.

  • Klim: D’Arcy should apologize

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    D’Arcy pleaded guilty in a 2009 criminal court case to recklessly causing grievous bodily harm and was given a suspended 14-month jail sentence. He is yet to apologise to Cowley over the incident and veteran swimmer Michael Klim on Monday said it would be “nice” of him to do so. Read more here on ninemsn,…

  • Jordan swimmer Nazih Samer Mezayek gets 2-year ban

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    Jordanian swimmer Nazih Samer Mezayek has been banned for two years after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in an out-of-competition test last September. Ban starting on September 10, 2011, and ending on September 9, 2013. Source FINA via The Washington Post