Swimmer's Daily

  • Swim the Gold Coast is Australia’s newest Marathon Swim for teams and individuals.

    The course spans the length of the Gold Coast, from Coolangatta Beach in the South, to the iconic cityscape of Surfers Paradise in the North (21.5km).

    Entry options include Solo, Duo Teams and Teams of four and we’ve scheduled the event in May – it’s an end of Summer goal for every swimmer and their mates.

    If you’ve conquered iconic marathon swims like the Rottnest Channel or English Channel, Swim the Gold Coast should be on your bucket list.

    #SwimtheGoldCoast #StepUp

  • Olympic gold medal-winning sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell are two of Australia’s greatest swimmers. Here they talk about growing up, competing against each other, and their support for fellow swimmer Shayna Jack.

  • Close calls with whales happen more often than you might expect. And although the people in these videos got away relatively unscathed, there’s no denying that they were just meters away from becoming a whale’s lunch. But what would happen if they hadn’t been so lucky? Could a human body survive being swallowed by a whale? Has it ever happened before?

  • Cody Miller is known for being incredibly successful in and out of the water. Known for Olympic medals, his bubbly personality, and his YouTube presence. But one thing that cody doesn’t show us in his videos is what is going through his mind during a workout. Why does he actually swim?

    The Phlex EDGE empowers Cody to let his mind go, train as hard as he can push himself, and empower him so that he know that data will be there right after practice.

    You can buy your own Phlex EDGE today www.phlexswim.com

  • Compliment your training and include Swimming in your training plan

  • Learn How to Swim Straight! // Today’s video is dedicated to comparing the differences between swimming crooked versus swimming straight. This video will address common mistakes that can cause a swimmer to swim unevenly out in open water.

  • There’s a big confusion around what a high elbow catch is, that it should be elbow near the surface. While it shouldn’t be really deep, the elbow will usually be at least 15cm or more below the surface…but the way we define a ‘high elbow catch’ has got anything to do with its height.

    Develop your catch and knock 10/secs per 100m (or more) off your pace? Many swimmers have done it inside the Effortless Swimming Video Membership: https://effortlessswimming.com/member…

  • New Zealand’s Paralympic swim team is calling the University of Bath their HOME 🏠 as they prepare for the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships 🏊 in London…

  • A swimming coach in Goa has been booked for the rape of a National Junior gold medallist after a purported video of the incident went viral on social media.

    Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has also stepped in and promised stringent action against the accused after a Twitter user tagged him with screenshots from the video, demanding his intervention.

    Surajit Ganguly, who was employed by the Goa Swimming Association (GSA), was accused by the 15-year-old girl training under him of molestation, after he called her to the Mapusa centre in North Goa from West Bengal.

    The girl has alleged that during her six months stay in Goa, she was mentally and physically tortured by him. The matter came to light after her parents, who went to Goa with her, noticed that her performances were dipping and she was avoiding Ganguly.

    When pressed to reveal what happened, she broke down and narrated the ordeal to her parents. They immediately went back to Bengal and tried to file a police complaint.

    The girl took to social media after the police station in her hometown showed reluctance in lodging a complaint on the grounds that the incident happened in Goa.

    “My coach used to touch me and physically assaulted me. I have decided to reveal this because I want to save many other girls who may have gone through the same ordeal. Shockingly, when I went to the police station, they told me to lodge a complaint with the Goa police,” she said in a Facebook post.

    The GSA sacked the coach on Thursday. A case under IPC sections 376 (rape), 354 (molestation) and 506 (criminal intimidation), as well as under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and Goa Children’s Act was registered against Ganguly who is yet untraceable, said inspector Kapil Nayak of Mapusa police station in Goa.

    Read NEWS18, India, The Indian Express

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