Swimmer's Daily

Year: 2014

  • Swim lessons are essential

    Swim lessons are essential

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    Read okcfox With temps heating up, you may have your sights set on the swimming pool.  It won’t be long before your kids will be begging to cool off and splash around. But before they do, there’s an important warning from safety experts, as our state is third in the nation in the number of…

  • Vegetarian Athlete Tips: Olympic Swimmer Kate Ziegler

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    Read Stack Endurance athletes are known to be voracious eaters—especially during their peak training months (look no further than Michael Phelps’ 12,000-calorie-per-day diet ahead of the London Games). So you might be surprised to learn that Kate Ziegler, a two-time Olympian and four-time World Champion swimmer, powers her performance with fruits, veggies, whole grains and legumes. The 25-year-old…

  • Gareth Kean to take break from pool

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    Read The New Zealand Herald Olympic swimmer Gareth Kean has decided to take a break away from the sport but few reasons have been given for his sudden departure. The 22-year-old will miss next week’s national championships in Auckland, which double as the Commonwealth Games trial. Kean, who won a silver medal at the Delhi…

  • Ingvild Snildal retires

    Ingvild Snildal retires

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    See nrk.no, there is a nice video interview with her also, in Norwegian. Ingvild Snildal can’t find the motivation again. Therefore, one of Norway’s best swimmers ever retires at the age of 25. ‘The last half year I have felt that I am comfortable as a normal person who isn’t an elite athlete, Ingvild Snildal…

  • Star or moon, 13-year-old Japanese swimmer aims to shine in pool

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    Read The Japan News There are high hopes that a new swimming star will emerge at this month’s Japan national swimming championships, although “star” might not be the appropriate word for 13-year-old Runa Imai. Imai, whose first name is based on the word Luna, the Roman goddess embodying the moon, finished third in the women’s…

  • Parents and student defend bear crawl coach

    Parents and student defend bear crawl coach

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    See KENS5 A group of parents and students came to the defense of a high school coach who they said did no wrong in making swimmers do bear crawls on the track. In a story KENS 5 brought you first on Monday, a former swimmer at Reagan High School in the Northeast ISD said the…

  • 63-year-old woman killed by shark during daily swim

    63-year-old woman killed by shark during daily swim

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    Read for instance CTV News and see Brisbane Times A large shark killed a woman near her terrified husband and friends as they took their daily morning swim Thursday off a popular Australian east coast beach, police said. Christine Armstrong, 63, was taken by the shark as she attempted to swim the 600 metres between…

  • Terrifying video of man trapped in cave as it fills with water

    Terrifying video of man trapped in cave as it fills with water

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    Panic sets in as getting wedged on a radged rock inside a narrow tube underground, while its filling with water, is a proper stupid thing to do… Worst caving experience ever….

  • Norwegian Teens Rewrite Record Books On Day 1 Of SC Champs

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    See tv2.no The Norwegian Short Course Champs started with a bang Thursday, with youngsters clocking a total of six Norwegian records, nine Norwegian junior records and two world records for disabled people. 17-year-old Henrik Christiansen demolished Gard Kvale’s 7:50.45 Norwegian record in the 800 freestyle from back in 2005, with a time of 7:43.26 now.…