Swimmer's Daily

  • Florida Gators senior Caeleb Dressel broke so many records it’s hard to keep count. Take a look at all his record-breaking races throughout the 2018 NCAA Men’s Championships.

  • An Indiana father is dead after saving his young daughter from a car that had rolled into an Indianapolis pond.

    According to The Associated Press, Anthony Burgess Jr., 24, parked his car at an apartment complex Sunday and left the engine running as he went to talk to a friend. His 3-year-old daughter tried to go with him, but Burgess told her to go back to the car, authorities said. That’s when the girl bumped into the gear shift, sending the car into a nearby retention pond, authorities said.

    Burgess “jumped into the water and … got the girl out as the car went into the water,” the AP reported. Neither Burgess nor his friend, who also jumped in to save the girl, knew how to swim, according to WTTV.

    Burgess and the girl were taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His daughter’s condition was listed as stable, the AP reported.

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  • Why Olympians don’t drive super nice cars.
    Not taking a break
    Lets do this

  • Michael Phelps won 28 Olympic medals, the most ever. He won 23 gold medals, the most ever. He competed in his first Summer Games at age 15, one of America’s youngest Olympians ever. He won six golds at 19, a record eight at 23 and went out with five more at age 31.

    You don’t need a Starbucks barista to tell you where he ranks among the sport’s greats.

    But when the wonks at ESPN put their heads together to determine the 20 most “formidable, awe-inspiring and downright dominant athletes of the past two decades,” only two Olympic stars, track and field’s Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix, were on the list.

    Because math.

    “Here’s the issue: There were 34 swimming events at the 2016 Olympics, with three more coming in 2020,” ESPN’s Peter Keating wrote in explaining Phelps’ omission. “And while it makes no sense to count each as a distinct sport, like soccer or baseball, there’s also no way to combine times across distances, disciplines, medleys and relays — and no one rating that weights national, international and Olympic competitions for an annual score among individual swimmers. We’d love to tell you where Phelps and Katie Ledecky rank on our list of most dominant athletes, but we can’t. It’s not our fault, it’s the data!”

    To which many smart people said: No, it is your fault.

    Read The Baltimore Sun

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  • FINIS, Inc., the worldwide leader in technical swim products, is back at it again! This time FINIS is here to talk about how they can save coaches TIME and MONEY with their new Backstroke Start Wedge.

    For the development of the Backstroke Start Wedge, FINIS worked in collaboration with Vince Harris at WEDG Swim Start Systems (County Cork, Ireland). Vince is an Irish engineer and swim dad who began making wedges for his daughter’s swim team after learning how expensive they were. He had one goal in mind: to create an affordable alternative that fits all standard blocks. If you know FINIS well, you’ve already connected the dots and know that FINIS loved the concept and jumped at the chance to collaborate. With the addition of FINIS’ high-quality design elements, the team is ready to share the Backstroke Start Wedge with swimmers and coaches around the world.

    The FINIS Backstroke Start Wedge is FINA-compliant (FR 2.10) and can be used during training and competition as a way for swimmers to get an explosive start without slipping.

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  • From 2011 – High School swimmer David Tolstyka unfazed by loss of hearing as he succeeds in pool

  • The Keepers is a series of films made by The Good Life Experience telling the story of the festival through the people involved.

  • Elijah Winnington is a 17 year old swimmer competing in the biggest sporting event of his life in April 2018. He currently trains under Kyle Samuelson and Richard Scarce at the Bond Swim Club. Elijah is a Georgina Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholar and is currently studying a Bachelor of Business.

  • Swimmer Jocelyn Ulyett arrived at Loughborough University as an ‘average’ swimmer… now she has the potential to claim a medal at the Commonwealth Games.