Swimmer's Daily

  • A swimming instructor in southwestern Germany is suspected of sexually abusing 40 young girls, and using an underwater camera to film some of the abuse.

    Baden-Baden prosecutor’s office spokesman Michael Klose told the dpa news agency Wednesday that the 33-year-old man, whose name wasn’t released, was first arrested in September in connection with six cases following an investigation of parents’ complaints.

    Klose says after further investigation, the man’s now suspected of 136 counts of sexual abuse of girls ranging in age from 4 to 8 in the Baden-Baden area from October 2015 until his arrest. Klose says he also intimidated at least two victims, with the “threat that he would kill them.”

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  • Caeleb Dressel makes history with a record 17.63 swim in the 50 freestyle at the NCAA championships.

  • The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang may have only just finished but already attention is turning to 2020 and Tokyo.

    Preparations for the 2020 games are well under way and organisers have released a promo video.

    One big point of the video is how sport has the power to “change the world and our future” with the video focusing on the vibrant culture and people of Tokyo.

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  • Swimming is often referred to the complete exercise and there are obviously good reasons for the same. Hence it would be interesting to delve a bit deeper and find out the various benefits and advantages associated with regular swimming. We are please to share the same over the next few lines. We are sure that the benefits have just not been plucked from the air but have been the result of quite a bit of research and understanding. Understanding the benefits and putting the same into practice would be useful in more ways than one and could help many of us to lead much healthier lives.

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  • Japanese condom-makers are ramping up preparations ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, seeing a golden opportunity to showcase their world-record ultrathin products.

    For years, hundreds of thousands of condoms have been distributed for free to competitors at Olympic Games in a bid to encourage safe sex among the world’s fittest athletes.

    The tradition provides prophylactic producers with a potentially unrivaled marketing opportunity.

    Read the Japan Times

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  • Interview with Team England swimmer James Guy as he looks ahead to the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast this coming April. Followed by footage of James with fans changing his shirt.

  • A man caught the whole incident on video.

  • This past week, South Africa’s top club swimmers were in action at the 2018 Masters Swimming Championships in Tshwane. Joining us this morning to give their rundown of this year’s Championships, we have Greg McLeroth and Kathryn Nurse from the Cape Town Masters Swimming Club.

  • The purpose of the Go isn’t simply to track, but also to train. When you first use the device, you plug your weight, age and height into the companion app, and it comes up with a personalized training schedule for you. Each day, you have to sit or stand with good posture for a certain amount of time to get your gold star. The time increases gradually (it creeps up in minute increments) for a few weeks until you complete the program. After this, Upright recommends training in 20-minute sessions a few times per week.

    I don’t see a great deal of value in this personalized schedule. I was barely done poking around the app before my first day’s goal of nine minutes was up. The next day I was challenged to sit still for 10 minutes, and so on. Unless you’re a fidgety toddler, it’s really not hard. I came to realize it wasn’t supposed to be. The idea is to lure you, through easily achievable goals, into forming a positive habit.

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