Swimmer's Daily

  • I had the opportunity to shoot a video for the GW Swim & Dive team this year. Have been planning something like this for a long time. Take a minute to see what it’s like to be a part of this program. #RaiseHigh

  • Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is to swim a kilometre across a lake on the Antarctic ice sheet to raise awareness of the climate crisis at the poles.

    The latest challenge by the UN patron of the oceans will see him swim in a stretch of water no human has swum in before as he tries to drive action to create a network of protected areas in the ocean around the continent.

    In the run-up to the swim, which will take place in January, Mr Pugh has put an advert in the jobs section of The Times looking for people to train with him off the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides from December 29.

    He will swim one kilometre (0.6 miles) across a “supraglacial” lake, which form when melting water collects in depressions on the surface of glaciers or ice sheets, in East Antarctica.

    Read Yahoo! News

  • People often consider walking and running to be activities that the body is able to perform on autopilot. But research carried out over the past decade by us and others would indicate that this folk wisdom is wrong. Instead exercise seems to be as much a cognitive activity as a physical one. In fact, this link between physical activity and brain health may trace back millions of years to the origin of hallmark traits of humankind. If we can better understand why and how exercise engages the brain, perhaps we can leverage the relevant physiological pathways to design novel exercise routines that will boost people’s cognition as they age—work that we have begun to undertake.

    Read Scientific American

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  • From Dec. 10 to Dec. 21, it doesn’t matter what time of day you tune in to this livestream there will be a swimmer at this pool in Mountain View. The tech workers turned world-record hunters are trying to get their Guinness badge of honor.

    “There’s an existing record set in 1979, so it’s kind of worthy of being broken. The record stands at 10 days 470 miles,” said organizer Craig Robinson who has been in touch with the previous world record holders from Ohio.

    The eight swimmers are setting a goal of eleven days and as many miles past 470. They swim in relay, with at least one person in the pool at all times.

    See ABC7 and visit Google Swim Record

  • Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe is one of several public figures who have appeared in a video that strongly criticises the Coalition’s Religious Discrimination Bill.

    LGBTQI+ advocacy group Equality Australia released the video across social media last Friday and it has so far received more than 300,000 views.

    Read SBS News

     

  • The fourth match of the ISL season took place in Budapest, Hungary.

  • Seventeen-year-old swimmer Wang Kuan-hung has had a stellar 2019. He”s made history by becoming the first Taiwanese to win a medal at the U.S. Open. He”s also qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, where his goal is to reach the quarterfinals or beyond. Still in high school, he”s already been hailed as Taiwan”s next Butterfly King.

  • Aidan Dumuje-Abili is an 8-year-old swimmer and the fastest in his category in Lagos. His dream is to emulate the success of the legendary swimmer, Michael Phelps and put Nigeria on the map for swimming. Angela Ukomadu reports.

    https://youtu.be/8xHvkA_6mg0