Swimmer's Daily

  • After sighting (looking forwards), a lot of swimmers keep looking forwards and it’s impacts on their speed. If you use the sight and breathe method and return your eyes to your normal position this can fix it. The exception, if you’re following feet for drafting.

  • While conducting research for the Ocean Cleanup’s Aerial Expedition, scientists spotted whales swimming through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time.

    In a new study published in the journal Marine Biodiversity, researchers shared their findings from the survey and documented the sightings.

    “It is well known that ocean plastics pose a threat to marine mammals, with many cases of entanglement and ingestion interactions being recorded worldwide,” they wrote. “Here, we describe the first cetacean sightings made within the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”

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  • My focus is to find out what motivates people to swim in freezing cold water all year round. Mainly because I love it too and I realised, through doing it, that I was meeting some extraordinary people along the way, all with amazing stories

  • Re-live the best bits from the fourth match in the ISL. Budapest put on a show as London Roar recorded a second victory on the bounce.

  • Forty swimmers will represent the country at the 2019 CANA Zone 3 swimming championship to be held from the 28th of November to December 1st at the Kasarani Aquatic Centre. However, a total of 80 Kenyan swimmers will take part in the tournament, with the additional 40 competing to gauge their fitness.

  • A Cambridge graduate who drowned in a swimming pool during a party at his family home had been playing a game to see how long he could hold his breath underwater, an inquest heard.

    Dominic Hamlyn, 24, died earlier this year after friends pulled him from the pool during a party at his home for his younger brother’s 21st birthday, the hearing was told.

    The 24-year-old is the son of world-famous neurosurgeon Peter Hamlyn, who is famed for saving the life of boxer Michael Watson when he was injured during a world title fight with Chris Eubank in 1991.

    He had just given a 15 minute speech to guests toasting his brother before going for a swim with his friends.

    During this time he had been playing in a game to see how long he could hold his breath underwater, it was heard.

    But he had to be pulled from the pool by friends following the game.

    Paramedics were called to the families £3m farmhouse in Crundale, near Ashford in the early hours of July 28 when it became clear that Dominic was unresponsive, an inquest heard.

    Dr Hamlyn then desperately performed CPR on his son until paramedics arrived.

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  • A junior at Thornapple Kellog High School in Michigan is battling cancer as she finishes the swim season with her team. Lydia Cole has been swimming for the past 11 years and throughout her high school career.

  • The NMU Student Nurses Association and the U.P. Diabetes Outreach Network are hosting former Olympic swimmer, Gary Hall Jr., on Friday.

    Gary Hall Jr. is an Olympic swimmer (1996, 2000, 2004) and winner of 10 Olympic medals (5 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze). He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1999 while he was training for his second Olympics.

    Hall is going to speak in NMU’s Jamrich Hall from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Friday. The presentation is free and open to everyone.

    Read Upper Michigan Source

     

  • As anticipation and excitement builds for Tokyo 2020, Swimming Australia is proud to unveil its Olympic and Paralympic campaign ‘Greatness Starts Somewhere’.