Swimmer's Daily

  • Erik van Heijningen is FINA Bureau member from the Netherlands and wants to help the whole Water Polo family to find the right answers to the questions that came up at the FINA Water Polo conference 2017 in Budapest.

  • The newspaper Le Parisien first raised the possibility, putting the expected price tag at some €80 million (£70 million/$97 million).

    Reports underlined, however, that such a move would leave no legacy either for the local community or the French Swimming Federation.

    The cost of a permanent venue was put at $137.5 million (£98.5 million/€113 million) in 2024 dollars in Paris 2024’s Phase 2 Candidature File.

    But the aquatics centre was said to have been among venues pinpointed earlier this year by top civil servants as areas where Paris 2024 faced potential cost pressures.

    The inspectors were said to have underlined the risk of a too-many-cooks scenario developing and inflating costs.

    Read Inside the Games

  • n his speech, Jason describes what success is in his own words and spells out how to be successful through a life of well-known sports player. Jason Park is a current sophomore (Year 11) at North London Collegiate School, Jeju. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

  • Penny Oleksiak achieved her #Someday with 4 Olympic medals. Who’s Next? #RBCNext

  • 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