Swimmer's Daily

  • When you’re swimming can you look down and see your toes almost dragging along the bottom of the pool? Mark and Heather have got some tips and pointers to help you get your legs away from the bottom of the pool and in line with the rest of your body!

  • Scenes from the 28th Annual Hobbs Pond Swim in Hope on Aug. 17.

  • Over 250 Kids from different parts of the country came for this event. This is an opportunity for the swimming coaches to find and build their program. Check out more of the Novice Meet Swimming Tournament here on Home Base Plus.

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  • A Bucks County swim club is closed until further notice after a tree fell on a large tent, injuring nine people.

    Lower Southampton Township workers surveyed the damage at Dolphin Swim Club, a public swim club run by the township, one day after a quick-moving storm blew through.

    The pavilion-like tent was left mangled, crushed by a tree that authorities say was struck by lightning.

    See ABC 7

  • Olympic gold medalist, Lenny Krayzelburg answers all sorts of random questions from the internet this month.

  • Ryan Lochte may be focused on his comeback story, but the emotional scars stemming from the 2016 Olympics remain.

    Appearing on HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” airing Tuesday at 11 p.m., the 35-year-old Olympian reflected on the fallout from the scandal in Rio, in which he and three teammates were accused of embellishing a tale about being robbed at gunpoint.

    “There was points where, if I went to sleep and I never woke up again I’d be fine,” Lochte said. “If I just disappeared, it would be okay.”

    Though the swimmer previously opened up about how the international incident affected him emotionally, Lochte’s wife, Kayla Rae Reid, also recalled a change in his demeanor.

    “Someone that has all this energy and drive and just to be completely squashed, like that,” she said.

    See New York Post

  • Ferry Weertman is the king of open-water marathon swimming. After a stunning finish in Copacabana Bay at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, he managed to hit the finishing line before Greece’s Spyridon Giannotis, who had overtaken him a few moments earlier in the final chute. He had to call his friends in the Netherlands in order to believe his Olympic victory was true. Since then, he has followed up on his success, becoming the 2017 world champion in the waters of Lake Balaton, Hungary, before being crowned European champion in Glasgow’s Loch Lomond in 2018.

    At the Gwangju World Championships in Korea, he failed to reach the podium in the 10km, the only Olympic distance, but his 7th place finish earned him one of 10 qualifying spots for the Tokyo 2020 Games. “I have mixed feelings,” he explained after the race. “I was aiming for a medal, of course. But I’m glad I qualified for the Games. I was feeling good, but it was hard getting my head up during the final two laps.”

  • Travis Tygart, the head of the American anti-doping agency USADA, said he felt great sympathy for athletes like Horton and Scotsman Duncan Scott, who followed suit just a few nights later when he refused to have his photo taken – or shake hands with – Sun.

    Both Horton and Scott were accused of poor sportsmanship and a degree of sour grapes but Tygart said he understood the frustrations of the athletes and that a clunky, slow-moving system was to blame for the entire mess.

    “Shame on the system… and we’re part of the system,” Tygart said. “It’s a part that we don’t have control over but it does reflect on all of us trying to fight for clean sport. Shame on us for putting athletes in a position where they had to protest and not join the podium.

    “That’s not their fault… that’s our fault and we should take responsibility for putting them in that position. Good on them for standing up when the system has let them down.”

    Read The Sydney Morning Herald