Swimmer's Daily

  • Set in one of Australia’s most beautiful locations, the Hamilton Island Triathlon and Whitehaven Beach Ocean Swim provides the ultimate test of endurance in the ultimate location.

  • Saturday, February 22 at Allen Pools and Spas, UVAC Swim Team Member, 2019 Vermont Sport’s Magazine Athlete of the Year, and open water swimming phenomenon, 16-year-old Vera Rivard of Springfield, NH, promoted her upcoming English Channel swim attempt at the Allen Pools & Spas show room in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She swam for 2 hours non- stop in their Endless Pool with advanced swim-in-place technology. She is interviewed along with her team at the event.

  • A scene from an iconic 1988 Japanese animated movie that famously predicted Tokyo would win the right to hold the 2020 Olympics has the country abuzz on Friday over a possible cancellation of the games.

    A scene from the movie “Akira,” set in 2019, shows a signboard counting down the days until the Olympics. The sign reads “147 Days Until The Games” and encourages citizens to lend their support to making the event a success. Underneath, someone has graffitied, “Just cancel it!”

    With Friday marking exactly 147 days until the opening ceremony on July 24, and talk of the possibility of cancelling the games due to coronavirus growing as the outbreak spreads in Japan, the topic “Just Cancel it!” is trending at the top of Japanese Twitter.

    Read Bloomberg

  • Countercurrent system of a special kind – a turbine swimming system: Binder EasyStar / HydroStar

    The No. 1 in swimming Elena Krawzow tests the no. 1 turbine swimming system EasyStar.

    8 reasons for HydroStar / EasyStar ⬇️

    ✅ Unique swimming experience
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    ✅ Low noise and vibration
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    ✅ Easy to retrofit
    ✅ No splashing water
    ✅ Energy-efficient operation
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    See https://www.hydrostar-binder.de/en/

  • Chinese swimmer Sun Yang said he will “definitely” appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal against the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to ban him for eight years.

    “This is unfair. I firmly believe in my innocence,” Sun told Xinhua. “I will definitely appeal to let more people know the truth.”

    The CAS upheld an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), ruling that Sun had refused to cooperate with drug sample collectors during a controversial visit to his home in September 2018.

    Read Xinhua

  • Chad le Clos believes he has a claim on Sun Yang’s gold medal from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, with a verdict due Friday on the Chinese swimmer’s latest doping case.

    “He should be banned. It’s as simple as that,” Le Clos said in an interview with The Associated Press this week. “Anyone who tests positive should be banned. I should get my gold medal back from Rio.

    “Not for the moment. I lost that. I don’t really care about that,” Le Clos added on Wednesday. “It’s just for my record. If I break my leg and I can’t swim again I want my record to say, ‘Two individual golds, two individual silvers.’ Because that’s what it should be.”

    Le Clos’ Olympic record currently contains one gold medal and three silvers — including a second-place finish to Sun in the 200-meter freestyle at the 2016 Games.

    Read AP News

    https://youtu.be/-_Xf_wwfcvo

  • Last week, the First Colonial High School girls swim team made the biggest splash in school history, bringing home the program’s first-ever state championship.