Swimmer's Daily

  • Lachlan Vane-Tempest interviews Olympic champion swimmer Bronte Campbell ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as part of the Lunch with Lach (#LWL) series. #swimmingnsw

  • East Lyme’s Nikki Hahn, the 2019 All-Area Swimmer of the Year.

  • The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has confirmed it will appeal the decision from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to restrict the country’s participation at major events, as punishment for the manipulation of the Moscow Laboratory data.

    RUSADA Supervisory Board chairman Alexander Ivlev said the body would contest the range of sanctions handed down by WADA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), following its meeting in Moscow today.

    Confirmation of the appeal – which must be filed by December 30 – came on the same day as Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his annual press conference, where he claimed the sanctions from WADA were “unfair” and the decision “goes against common sense”.

    RUSADA was declared non-compliant by the WADA Executive Committee last week, triggering a four-year package of punishments, including a ban on the Russian flag at the Olympic Games and World Championships.

    Russia is also set to be stripped of World Championships it has been awarded and the country has been barred from bidding for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

    However, Russian athletes who can prove they had no involvement in the doping scandal or the cover-up will be able to compete at major events as neutrals.

    Read Inside the Games

  • USRPT stands for “Ultra Short Race Pace Training”. The premise for this training methodology is that race-specific high-intensity swimming will yield the optimal performance results and fastest times in competition. The overall goal is to simulate a racing situation in a workout to better prepare an athlete’s body for the actual race. 🏁

  • Ice dipping season is now open! A new educational course for swimming in ice-cold waters has set up shop for winter in the city of Dnipro. Instructors are inviting young and old alike to take part in what they’re calling a quick way to stay healthy and alert.

  • The quantity of heat the oceans have absorbed in the last decade is difficult to describe, if not imagine. The ocean’s heat content is measured in the most standard unit of energy, joules (using a 100-watt lightbulb for three hours eats up 1,080,000 joules). Between 2010 and 2019, the seas absorbed roughly 110,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy.

    To help grasp this outrageous number, we’ll need something big, so I’ve converted the ocean’s heat content into nuclear bomb explosions. Specifically, explosions of the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba. In a grandiose test, the Soviets dropped this 59,525 pound, blimp-shaped behemoth in October 1961, which released some 50 megatons of energy (that’s the energy produced by exploding 50 million tons of dynamite).

    The conclusion: The ocean has absorbed (roughly) the equivalent amount of energy released when detonating a Tsar Bomba once every 10 minutes for 10 years. 

    (For reference, the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 had the explosive force of 15,000 tons of TNT — so the Tsar Bomba detonation was over 3,000 times more powerful.)

    Read Mashable

    heat ocean photo
    Photo by Tree Leaf Clover

  • This is the moment five fearless sheepdogs waded through flood water to save nearly 80 sheep from drowning. A video shows four tough border collies and one New Zealand huntaway swimming through strong currents to round-up the flock. The sheepdogs – Bee, Ghost, Blaze, Jack, and Kea – worked tirelessly for 40 minutes to bring the sheep over to the other side of the riverbank.

  • In this episode we tap into our resident fast man in the pool, Tyler, taking us through his thoughts on the common mistakes he is seeing in athletes swim training. From incorrect use of assisting tools like fins and paddles, overdoing the volume and doing drills with no purpose. A must listen to help you make your time in the water more effective and get the most out of your swimming.