Swimmer's Daily

  • Super fit swimmer enjoying an impressive afternoon’s exercise in the sea at Sheringham, North Norfolk.

  • A hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the case involving controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang will be open to the public and the media, it was announced today.

    The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed to the CAS after the International Swimming Federation (FINA) opted to issue Sun with a warning following allegations a blood sample was deliberately smashed during an argument with drug testers earlier this year.

    The CAS hearing between Sun, who served a three-month drugs ban in 2014, FINA and WADA will be only the second to be open to the public in the history of sport’s supreme court.

    The first public hearing was between Irish swimmer Michelle Smith de Bruin and FINA in 1999.

    Sun, a three-time Olympic champion, had asked CAS to make the meeting open “in order to be fully transparent and to clear his name”.

    CAS said in a statement that it will “likely take place in Switzerland”.

    The hearing had tentatively been scheduled for September but will not be held before the end of October, CAS added.

    “Due to unexpected personal circumstances, one of the parties was obliged to request a postponement of the hearing,” CAS said.

    “Such request was assented to by the other parties and accepted by the CAS panel.”

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  • From tuna to sea urchin, Japanese cuisine is all about seafood. But with fish stocks critically endangered, tourists sampling local delicacies may be harming marine life more than they realize.

    Following the Olympics’ focus on sustainable food in Rio and London, Japan is under pressure to provide eco-friendly seafood to the huge numbers of visitors expected in Tokyo for the 2020 games.

    “We want to establish sustainable seafood elements,” said Wakao Hanaoka, founder of Tokyo-based sustainable seafood consultancy, Seafood Legacy. “We want to use this 2020 Olympics as a chance to boost acceleration of the movement in Japan.”

    Right now, that’s no easy task.

    Read Deutsche Welle

  • “The world is 71% water and your kids are 100% curious, so teaching them to swim is a great layer of protection you can use.”

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  • With an excessive heat warning going into effect Tucsonans are looking for ways to stay cool.

  • Underwater, no one can hear you scream. Well, they can if they’re nearby and can catch an earful of your terrified gurgling, but also, I wouldn’t recommend screaming, because you’ll need that oxygen, because you’re about to walk across the deep sea floor and try not to get eaten by a mysterious monster.

    OK, so it’s not as catchy a tagline — but the isolated, hermetically-sealed sci-fi horror vibe of Underwater is too close to Alien not to have a go. (Alien But It’s) Underwater stars Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, and Jessica Henwick (Game Of Thrones, The Force Awakens) as a ragtag bunch of adventurers in a scientifically advanced space station ocean base.

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  • Angel More is a world champion swimmer at 16. Her most recent feat was swimming under 20 bridges around Manhattan. The 28.5 mile journey took nine hours. Angel’s been swimming since age 2. She’s competed in the California triple crown – a series of open water swimming marathons. She’s raised thousands of dollars along the way for Children International, a nonprofit that benefits children in poverty. InsideEdition.com’s Leigh Scheps has more.

  • Today we are going to take you to a Centuries-old blooded Hungarian silica mine – Tarn of Megyer-Hegy. Hope you enjoy and remember, travel and discover. There are treasures everywhere.

  • Swimmers in Denver, Colorado were left stunned after a gust of wind blew a ‘flock of mattresses’ into a swimming pool.