Swimmer's Daily

  • This is my advice to everyone asking me about Coronavirus. I’m Sarah Ferguson the Open Water Swimmer from Durban South Africa and I just got my result from my CoronaVirus Test COVID19. I have been asked a lot of questions so I thought this would be the best way to answer them. If you have any other questions about being tested positive or negative for COVID19 Coronavirus you are welcome to ask them in the comments down below.

    I have tested positive for the Coronavirus Test in South Africa. This is me telling you what you can do to flatten the curve in South Africa. I started showing Coronavirus symptoms and went for a test in Umhlanga the test result took 6 days so there is a backlog to getting your results and the stats that you are getting for the number of positive cases of Coronavirus in south Africa are very delayed.

  • Use these five different ways to do a pull up to help you with building your shoulders and back for swimming; regular dead hang, frenchies, negatives, assisted, and weighted. Time to get strong!

  • This workout will work on every part of your core. From the internal and external abs to the lower back and obliques.

    https://youtu.be/Yn_PPOH8_dI

  • The AOC held an Executive Board meeting via teleconference this morning and unanimously agreed that an Australian Team could not be assembled in the changing circumstances at home and abroad.

    AOC Chief Executive Matt Carroll says athletes have needed certainty – they wanted to do the right thing for themselves, their families and the world community.

    “We have athletes based overseas, training at central locations around Australia as teams and managing their own programs. With travel and other restrictions this becomes an untenable situation.

    “The IOC had adopted the key principles of putting athlete health first and ensuring it acted in their best interests and the interests of sport. This decision reflects those principles.

    “We are now in a position where we can plan with greater certainty.”

    Read olympics.com.au

    Swimming Australia supports this decision and has decided to shut down its high-performance programs:

    Following the government’s most recent advice and further restrictions being imposed across the country, and after consultation with high performance coaches, Russell said Swimming Australia’s high performance programs would also immediately shut down.

    “It is clear that to stop the spread of COVID-19 we must all follow government advice and practice physical distancing,” Russell said.

    “In light of all non-essential services being shut down we will suspend all of our Olympic and Paralympic training programs for the foreseeable future.

    “The safety and health of our athletes, coaches, staff, their families and our community, is paramount at the moment.”

    Read swimming.org.au

  • The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) say they won’t send athletes to compete at the Tokyo Games — set to begin July 24 — if they go ahead as scheduled.

    Backed by the Athletes’ Commissions, National Sport Organizations and the Government of Canada, the COC and CPC say they “made the difficult decision to not send Canadian teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020.”

    The two committees are calling on the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Games for a year, citing the safety of athletes and the general public amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “This is not solely about athlete health — it is about public health,”  the committees said in a statement Sunday night.

    https://youtu.be/B5ZrYCYC-Sw

  • Cameron van der Burgh, the 2012 Olympic 100m breaststroke champion and former World champion and record holder from South Africa, has been battling coronavirus COVID-19 infection for the past fortnight and has taken to social media to explain how tough it’s been even for a fit, young man whose athletic prime was just yesterday.

    Read SwimmingWorld Magazine and Cameron van der Burgh’s thread on Twitter

  • Found in the westernmost part of Canada is the Canadian territory of Yukon. Out of all the provinces and territories in Canada, this place has the smallest population, with only a little over 40,000 people. Found in this territory is the Takhini Hot Springs, which lies just outside Whitehorse, the capital city of Yukon.

    For most of the year, visitors spend hours relaxing in the mineral-rich and odorless waters, which are privately owned by the company Takhini Hot Pools.

    But when the winter months come, the hot springs become a heated battleground for the Hair Freezing Contest, the world’s only frozen-hairdo competition. In this contest, …

    Participants dunk their heads underwater, emerge into the frigid air, and style their locks into stiff, eye-catching sculptures. Depending on one’s creativity and luck with the elements, the results range from frosty, mop-like tangles to dramatically manicured spikes.

    “All this rising steam collects on your hair and freezes really quickly when it meets the cold air,” says Andrew Umbrich, co-owner of Takhini Hot Pools.

    “You can get good results within 15 minutes if it’s cold enough.”

    Read Neatorama

    https://youtu.be/SaNLUkK9p9I

  • Check out the Fastest Men’s 50m Freestyle Swimming Races in Olympic history! Do we forgot someone? Let us know in the comments!

  • British Olympic swimmer Lizzie Simmonds gives our Marlins a pep talk..and a challenge!