Swimmer's Daily

  • This is my experience at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Follow me and my team mates as we travel to the Gold Coast, arrive at the athletes village, visit the competition pool, prepare for our races and have fun! I competed in the mens 100m Backstroke, 4x100m Freestyle relay, 100m Freestyle and 4x100m Medley Relay, winning a bronze medal in the 4x100m Medley relay.

  • Ferry Weertman already shined in marathon swimming at the Rio Olympics in 2017 by winning the gold medal. One year later, the Dutchman collected another gold medal at the Fina Worlds in Budapest. Find out more about the current world champion in marathon swimming.

  • In cooperation with Gold Medallist Abbey Weitzeil, we are revealing the key physical features that help make the Team USA swimmer so fast.

  • 150 swimmers braved icy waters for the Freedom Swim from Robben Island to Blaauwberg. It was part of the Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations. Freedom Swim is regarded as one of the toughest extreme open water events in the world. Swimmers from across the globe participated.

  • Hungarian police have arrested an executive at world swimming’s governing body for the murder of a media tycoon in Budapest 20 years ago but suspect Tamas Gyarfas is innocent, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

    Police have never resolved who ordered the murder of Hungarian mogul Janos Fenyo who was sprayed with submachine gun bullets at a stop light in Budapest in February 1998. The killing shocked Hungary, which was emerging from Communist rule.

    Gyarfas, 69, has for decades been a driving force behind Hungary’s position as a power in world swimming and he is a member of the Lausanne-based International Swimming Federation’s (FINA) eight-person executive, according to FINA’s website.

    In the 1990s, he and Fenyo vied for control of a Hungarian television production company, according to public records.

    Police on Tuesday said they had detained and questioned a man they named only as Tamas Gy. They said in a separate statement Gy had been formally arrested.

    “Tamas Gyarfas has announced a complaint against the accusation and denies the act attributed to him in the strongest terms,” his lawyer Janos Banati said in a statement that confirmed that police arrested Gyarfas.

    Read Reuters

  • Rio 2016 gold medal winner Sarah Sjöström from Sweden is in Malta till tomorrow as an ambassador for the Bettson Group.

    Apart from having won the Olympic medal in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Sarah Sjostrom is a multi-medal world champion and holder of no fewer than 6 world records.

    Speaking to her yesterday at the ASA offices, she said she had started competitive swimming at age nine. “That is when I started feeling a big love for the sport, especially when I started clocking good times. Overall, I think I had a very good 2017. Personally, I think it was my best ever year in swimming,” she said.

    Asked what her most cherished medal was, she immediately pointed out that it was the Olympic medal. “It was my third Olympics and I was proud I was a winner,” she added.

    She went on to say that she has been inspired to success by several top performers in the sport. In Sweden, despite the cold, swimming is more popular than waterpolo and there are a lot of world class swimmers. But one has to undergo sacrifices to reach the top. You have to follow a vast training plan – five hours a day – which is part and parcel of the secret to success.

    “My visit here in Malta is sort of a short holiday, but at present I am already training for the 2020 Olympics, even if the first competition is the European Championship,” she said.

    Read Independent

  • In news that will make you go, “wah??”, Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice has been hired by the Kardashians.

    If you’re sitting there thinking, ‘that name seems familiar but I’m not exactly sure who they are’ it’s probably because Rice’s hey-day has somewhat passed. She won Australia Olympic Gold in 2008 and at the time was dating fellow hotshot Olympic swimmer Eamon Sullivan. They were a big deal, okay?

    But back to Stephanie.

    Since winning becoming an Olympic gold medalist, she’s retired and, as many athletes do, has gone through the rigmarole of readjusting to life as a normal human who doesn’t train 12 hours a day. She’s battled eating disorders and life outside the pool, before finding peace as a b-grade celeb and vegan.

    But she’s reclaiming relevance, with the news that she is partnering with Khloe Kardashian’s brand Good American. Girl has come a long way from her days as Davenport ambassador, that’s for sure!

    Read Whimn

    https://youtu.be/QN82meCwe-A

  • A former Fishers High School swim coach previously sentenced to federal prison for stealing from Nashville, Tenn.-area churches is now facing a new set of federal charges on allegations of passing bad bills at a minor league baseball game in Ohio.

    Kenneth J. Stopkotte, 52, is being held in the Montgomery County Jail in Ohio after being arrested at Dayton Dragons minor league baseball game on suspicion of forgery, theft and receiving stolen property, according to court documents.

    Read USA Today

  • Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps will splash down Saturday at the Crystal Lagoon in Wesley Chapel’s Epperson development.

    Phelps, a global ambassador for Crystal Lagoons, will appear at the grand opening of the first Crystal Lagoon built in the U.S. It is located at Metro Development Group’s 2,000-home Epperson development, about three miles north of State Road 54 at the corner of Curley and Overpass roads.

    Phelps’ appearance is part of a tropical-themed celebration featuring water ski shows, fly-boarding performances and mermaids in the lagoon. The event is noon to 6 p.m. Free parking and free admission is provided. Event planners said attendance is near capacity, but people can register online to join a waiting list at LagoonEvent.com.

    Read Tampa Bay Times

    https://youtu.be/kMsBjGoDXs4