Swimmer's Daily

  • In this video you will learn how you can shoot underwater bubble rings with a Coca Cola bottle. This Is much easier then to make the bubble rings with your mouth.

  • Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe has instructed the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party to conduct a study into the introduction of daylight saving time for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

    The Games are scheduled for July and August – Tokyo’s hottest and most humid months – and there are concerns over athlete safety during the intense heat.

    The Japan Times reports that Olympic officials are “considering a plan to move clocks two hours forward”, but the public and business sectors are divided over the plans. The BBC says the proposal has seen “major opposition on social media with many worried it would result in longer working hours”.

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    Photo by wuestenigel

  • Golden duel on: Russia leads 7-6 vs. GB

    Russia held on for a 7-6 lead in the gold medal count over host Great Britain in the Tollcross International Swimming Centre at the European Championships in Glasgow. Day 5 saw two titles apiece in the swimming competitions, Duncan Scott’s triumph in the men’s 200m free stood out though as he came first while swimming in lane 8. In the synchro pool the Russians bagged three more golds while the Brits doubled down the diving events in Edinburgh.

    Medal Ceremony DUET FREE ROUTINE PODIUM Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Medal Ceremony DUET FREE ROUTINE PODIUM Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    7 RUS RUSSIA KOLESNICHENKO Svetlana, SUBBOTINA Varvara DUET FREE ROUTINE FINAL Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    10 UKR UKRAINE SAVCHUK Anastasiya, YAKHNO Yelyzaveta Silver Medal 7 RUS RUSSIA KOLESNICHENKO Svetlana, SUBBOTINA Varvara Gold Medal 11 ITA ITALY CERRUTI Linda, FERRO Costanza Bronze Medal Podium Medal Ceremony DUET FREE ROUTINE FINAL Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    003 RUS RUSSIA GURBANBERDIEVA Mayya, MALTSEV Aleksandr DUET MIX FREE ROUTINE FINAL Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    004 ITA ITALY FLAMINI Manila, MINISINI Giorgio Silver medal 003 RUS RUSSIA GURBANBERDIEVA Mayya, MALTSEV Aleksandr Gold Medal 002 ESP SPAIN FERRERAS SANZ Berta, RIBES CULLA Pau Bronze Medal Podium Medal Ceremony DUET MIX FREE ROUTINE FINAL Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    11 RUS RUSSIA KOLESNICHENKO Svetlana SOLO FREE ROUTINE FINAL Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    7 ITA ITALY CERRUTI Linda Silver Medal 11 RUS RUSSIA KOLESNICHENKO Svetlana Gold Medal 12 UKR UKRAINE YAKHNO Yelyzaveta Bronze Medal Medal Ceremony DUET FREE ROUTINE PODIUM Glasgow 07/08/18 Synchronised Swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Pasquale Mesiano/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    GOVOROV Andriy UKR Gold Medal 50m Butterfly Men Finals Glasgow 07/08/18 Swimming Tollcross International Swimming Centre LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Masini/ Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    FESIKOVA Anastasiia RUS Gold Medal 100m Backstroke Women Finals Glasgow 07/08/18 Swimming Tollcross International Swimming Centre LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Masini/ Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Laugher Jack GBR gold medal Men’s 1m springboard final Edinburgh 07/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Podium : Laugher Jack GBR gold medal, Tocci Giovanni ITA siver medal, Heatly James GBR bronze medal Men’s 1m springboard final Edinburgh 07/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Cheng Eden GBR Toulson Lois GBR gold medal Women’s synchronised 10m platform final Edinburgh 07/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
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    SCOTT Duncan W GBR Gold Medal RAPSYS Danas LTU Silver Medal DOVGALYUK Mikhail RUS Bronze Medal 200m Freestyle Men Final Glasgow 07/08/2018 Swimming Tollcross International Swimming Centre LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Scala/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Team GREAT BRITAIN Gold Medal FAULKNER Eleanor GREENSLADE Kathryn HIBBOTT Holly ANDERSON Freya Team RUSSIA Silver Medal SALAMATINA Valeriia EGOROVA Anna OPENYSHEVA Arina GUZHENKOVA Anastasia Team GERMANY Bronze Medal FOOS Reva GOSE Isabel Marie KOEHLER Sarah BRUHN Annika 4x200m Freestyle Relay Women Glasgow 07/08/2018 Swimming Tollcross International Swimming Centre LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Scala/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Quadarella Simona ITA Gold Medal 1500m Freestyle Women Glasgow 07/08/2018 Swimming Tollcross International Swimming Centre LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Staccioli/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Scott Duncan W GBR Gold Medal 200m Freestyle Men Glasgow 07/08/2018 Swimming Tollcross International Swimming Centre LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Staccioli/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Proud Benjamin GBR Silver Medal Govorov Andriy UKR Gold Medal Kostin Oleg RUS Bronze Medal 50m Butterfly Men Glasgow 07/08/2018 Swimming Tollcross International Swimming Centre LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Staccioli/ Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto

    Duncan W Scott’s road to the men’s 200m free final was everything but an easy cruise. He was 11th in the heats and caught the last available spot in the semis so he was the first one introduced before the final while walking to lane 8. Few would have guessed that he would be also the first at the wall some 1:45 minutes after the start – but Scott just did that. While the top guys battled in the middle he sailed away on the ‘wing’ and scored a seemingly easy win, the gap was 0.73sec ahead of Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys in lane 4. It was GB’s first win in this event since 1997.

    The second title came in a business as usual style: the Brits won the session-ending relay on the third consecutive evening, this time their women’s 4x200m free relay touched in first.

    It means they keep the pace of the Russians who also claimed two titles. Yuliya Efimova added the 200m crown to the 100m with another overwhelming performance. In the 100m back, Anastasiia Fesikova managed to out-touch the champion of the 50m Georgia Davies by 0.17sec (a different outcome would have changed the lead in the medal table).

    Though Ukraine’s Andriy Govorov couldn’t repeat his record-breaking performance from one month ago when he brought down the 50m fly WR in Rome, still, he was clearly the best in the dash while retaining his title. Italy’s Simona Quadarella claimed her second victory here, she comfortably finished atop in the 1500m free, just like in the 800m.

    In the synchro pool, the last three titles on offer all went to the Russians as expected. They defended the titles in the mixed duet free, the solo and the duet free – Svetlana Kolesnichenko earned two golds in a span of three hours. As a bonus, she also received the 2017 LEN Awards (and set herself to repeat her win after this season too). Italy’s Giorgio Minisini was a bit upset after the silver in the mixed but he was consoled at the end as he received the historical first LEN Award given to a male synchro swimmer.

    The Brits enjoyed a tremendous day in the diving pool in Edinburgh. Lois Toulson and her new pair Eden Cheng landed the 10m synchro title while Jack Laugher captured his first-ever individual victory at the Europeans as he came first in the 1m event.

    For detailed results, medal tables, visit www.len.eu

    Press release from LEN, photos courtesy of Deepbluemedia/Giorgio Scala

  • It’s summertime! In this reel, we’re cooling off our hot heels with swimming lessons from an Olympic gold medalist, a class dedicated to ice cream, and a surfer saving the ocean

  • Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to use facial recognition technology to increase security around all venues, the organizers announced on Tuesday.

    Games organizers have linked up with Japanese telecommunications and information technology giant NEC to develop the first system of this kind to be implemented at an Olympics.

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  • “Risk-taking” men are ten times more likely to die while swimming in the sea, the RNLI has warned.

    Last year, 99 of the 109 adults who died on the coastline were men.

    The RNLI said that a male love of watersports and a tendency to take risks may be contributing factors for the difference.

    Young men made up the majority of the cases, the lifeguards said, and asked people in that demographic to make sure they speak to each other about the risks of swimming in the sea.

    One of the biggest killers, the RNLI added, was cold water shock.

    RNLI lifeguard supervisor Lewis Timson said: “When you jump into very cold water it sends your heart into a bit of a sporadic rhythm, throws breathing out and generally people thrash to get to safety. The current safety message is the complete opposite of that.

    Read The Telegraph

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  • At its meeting in Glasgow, the LEN Bureau allocated two of its top events.

    The 2021 European Short-Course Swimming Championships shall be held in Lisbon (POR), as the local Government, the city and the host federation presented a strong bid which prompted a unanimous decision of the Bureau to allocate its year-end showcase to Portugal. It’s also a kind of returning to the city which already hosted the 1999 edition. This time it’s going to be a true spectacle to be staged in the Altice Arena, one of the largest multi-purpose facilities in Europe (with a maximum seating capacity of 20,000).

    The stand-alone European Diving Championships will return to Kiev (UKR) in 2019 after a highly successful edition in the last year.

    “We are very happy and proud that big-time swimming returns to Portugal” LEN President Paolo Barelli said. “Lisbon is a great city and the proposed venue guarantee that we shall witness another outstanding short-course event in December 2021. As for Kiev, in 2017 the Ukrainian hosts delivered a fantastic event, we are very much looking forward to be part of the second edition there.”

    The Bureau nominated Fernando Carpena, President of the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation, new Vice-President of LEN and Gilles Sezionale, President of the French Swimming Federation, LEN Bureau Member.

    Mr. Francis Luyce, former Olympic swimmer, former President of the French Federation and the longest serving member of the current Bureau since 1994, has been nominated LEN Honorary Member.

    Press release from LEN

  • Beijing Olympic silver medallist, Keri-anne Payne is urging nervous swimmers to overcome any anxieties they have about breathing, after it was reported that 1 in 5 adults in the UK cannot swim.

    Payne, who is now an ambassador for Better, the UK’s largest leisure charitable social enterprise, says that swimming has had a major impact on her physical and mental health:

    “In terms of wellness and mindfulness, there’s something really calming and relaxing about the water which can really help us relieve our stresses or grievances. It’s why we enjoy listening to the sound of water or rain,” she says.

    The open-water swimmer focusses on what it takes to gain confidence in the water. She tells Better that, in general, people’s biggest fear of swimming often comes from the fear of not being able to breathe, which affects willingness to even enter the water:

    “The trick is to always remind yourself that you can always come up to breathe, and that way you’ll stop taking extra breathes and hyperventilating.”

    Payne also shared intimate anecdotes about perseverance, encouraging us to overcome our adversities:

    “An incident occurred in my race in the 2012 London Olympics where I caught a hit to the face, I was left in 12th position and it was a huge blow. I felt so downbeat but when I looked up [it was in Hyde Park with a crowd of 30,000 people], I saw all these people cheering me on, shouting my name and it really encouraged me to persevere through. I managed to come back from 12th to finish 4th!”

    Top tips Keri-anne gave Better:

    “Always focus on your body position in the water- you can achieve this by keeping your eyes focussed at the bottom of the water… or top of ceiling if doing backstroke.”

    “Set yourself goals from the outset, sign up to an event and get sponsored for a charity to make the training/sport less about yourself and more about others around you.”

    “Always do warm up exercises before entering the water to prevent injuries and strains. Exercises that strengthen your core are equally as important, as it’s constantly being worked in swimming!”

    Swimming is an important exercise which helps both adults and children relieve stress, gain confidence and become fitter and healthier. Better is the UK’s largest provider of swimming lessons across the UK. They’ve recently produced several informative videos to help adults perfect their swimming strokes, which can be found here:

    https://www.better.org.uk/articles/feel-great-with-four-swimming-strokes-better

    Additionally, they are helping children gain confidence and ability in the water with their affordable swimming lessons, which are rolled out across locations such as the state of the art London Aquatics Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

    Press release

    https://youtu.be/eazGWrI6qAE