Author: rokur

Ask a Canadian which sports they grew up watching or which sports they watch most often in 2017 and you’re likely to get the typical responses. Hockey, soccer, football, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis. You know, the mainstream sports. However, ask a Canadian to choose just one sport they’d want their child to excel in and a surprisingly high number will answer with swimming. We recently polled a random selection of approximately 1,500 Canadians aged 18 and older from coast to coast as part of The Canada Project and that was one of the sports-related questions asked. Only hockey (19 per…

A five-time Olympic gold medalist at 22 years old, Missy Franklin shares the lessons she learned while pursuing her dreams. https://youtu.be/o1AdGhn1PGU

The story of Swedish swimming star Sarah Sjostrom years before she became her country’s first female swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, at the Rio 2016 Olympics. https://youtu.be/Cn0gvYtrdbA

Join Olympic Medalist Anthony Ervin, the fastest swimmer on the planet, for an intimate and personal discussion about his new memoir, Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian. https://youtu.be/TWxG2F4XtC8

Athletics and swimming mixed relay competitions are among those included at Tokyo 2020 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it was announced here today. A mixed 4×400 metres relay will be held in athletics. A mixed 4x100m medley mixed relay has been added to the swimming programme. Male and female BMX freestyle park and 3×3 basketball have also been confirmed as two new disciplines on the programme, as exclusively reported by insidethegames yesterday. Mixed team competitions have also been added judo, table tennis, archery and triathlon. A mixed relay will be held in triathlon along with table tennis doubles and…

Most of the things we encounter in daily life are extremely static, or at least unresponsive, compared to the way living things work. That’s true for clothes: You put them on, they stay on, and if you want them to change you unzip zippers or undo buttons. But a new class of workout clothing leverages living bacteria, which expand when exposed to moisture and contract when dehydrated. Developed by a multidisciplinary team at MIT in collaboration with athletic-wear company New Balance, the clothes have vents that open automatically as the wearer starts to sweat. Read Smithsonian Mag https://vimeo.com/142212881

Anthony Ervin knows all too well what it’s like to be stared at and alienated for something uncontrollable. Before he was a famous swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist, Ervin was just a kid trying to cope with Tourette Syndrome, as his overpowering motor tics would draw negative attention from others. “It’s like an itch that constantly wants to be scratched,” he told For The Win. “When I was a preteen and a young teenager, it was really just these bursts of additional nervous energy that came out through mostly my eyelids and other facial expressions.” But after years of…

Drowning doesn’t only happen in the water. Dry drowning can happen hours or days after a child has gone swimming. What is it and what are the symptoms? https://youtu.be/WS5PdAXTVIw

A four-year-old boy from Houston, Texas has died of “dry drowning” almost a week after he last went swimming. Francisco Delgado Jr. told ABC 13 his family went swimming at the Texas City Dike with his son Frankie, 4, on Memorial Day weekend. About a week later, Frankie complained of shoulder pain and woke up a few hours later. “Out of nowhere, he just woke up. He said, ‘Ahhh,” Delgado told the news outlet. “He took his last breath and I didn’t know what to do no more.” Read People https://youtu.be/nyb9nT2Gpb0

Today is World Oceans Day. Yet another reminder of the importance of protecting our oceans and its incredible inhabitants. How are you celebrating? My roommate, big wave surfer Polly Ralda, and I are lucky enough to live on Oahu and enjoy being in the ocean each and every day. It’s our daily medicine. We owe so much to the ocean and believe it’s our responsibility as athletes to protect our playgrounds. This summer, the visibility has been crystal clear, so we wanted to share its beauty with you via our GoPro. We were pleasantly surprised on our last freediving adventure…