Swimmer's Daily

  • The knee situation… The Olympic Training Center. How did I get here? What I’ve been up to.

  • South Africa’s most decorated Olympian and YOG Ambassador Chad Le Clos is now opening the CleC Academy. Le Clos wants to give something back and created an academy for the next generation in Swimming. This academy wants to speak to the changing needs of the young people today but most importantly, keep up the fun aspect of swimming!

  • Stacy Michael-Miller of USA Swimming discusses the importance of mental health for athletes.

  • Cullen Jones had the opportunity to teach his mom to swim. This moment came years after his mother put Jones in swim lessons to make sure he was water safe.

  • The people of Tilbury in Essex received a shock this afternoon as a beluga whale was spotted making its way up the River Thames.

    The mammal was seen off Coalhouse Fort near Gravesend and Kent’s Shorne marshes, where ecologist Dave Andrews tweeted his sighting.

    “For anyone twitching the beluga, it’s been feeding around the barges for the last hour and hasn’t moved more than 200 metres in either direction. Still present,” he wrote.

    Read The Guardian

  • Hannah Miley has been dropped from British Swimming’s world-class performance squad, dealing a huge blow to her hopes of reaching a fourth and final Olympics at Tokyo 2020.

    The 29-year-old, who loses her Lottery funding, was the biggest name missing from the 54-strongsquad list which is headed by Olympic champion Adam Peaty and Scotland’s 
European gold medallist Duncan Scott.

    British Swimming chiefs defended axeing Gairloch’s Miley less than two months after the Scot claimed European Championship bronze in Glasgow. Her Stirling-based rival Aimee Wilmott, who pipped her to the Commonwealth Games 400m medley gold in April also lost out.

    A British Swimming spokesperson said: “This time last year, Hannah, Aimee Wilmott and Andrew Willis were all put on reviews post-Commonwealth Games and given half-year funding.

    “That was reviewed after Gold Coast and now they are no longer funded swimmers. We have a maximum number of places from UK Sport and we have three less than last year on the programme.”

    Read The Scotsman

  • A swimming coach whose training methods are at the center of a controversy involving the West Fargo girls swim team has issued a response.

    On Sept. 14, Ronald Hehn was fired as the girls swimming and diving coach at West Fargo High School, after he posted a Facebook video of a student manager attempting a training method Hehn had implemented, in which he was asked to swim 25 yards in the deep end with weights hanging from his waist. (See video above).

    The manager was attempting a training method team swimmers had attempted earlier in the day.

    Hehn said the method was taken from a speech recently given by Sam Freas, a head swimming coach at Oklahoma Baptist University and a former president of the College Swim Coaches Association.

    Freas, however, says his methods, which he’s been using for more than 20 years, were implemented incorrectly. He said the training system was to be used more like resistance training, comparing it to baseball players using weights on their bats during batting practice.

    “I’ve never used hanging weights,” Freas said. “My system is nothing like (what he did).”

    Read Inforum

  • A double take at the Olympian twins who have more in common with their team-mate than their love for sport and claiming medals.