Swimmer's Daily

  • Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang faces a lifetime ban from swimming after a bizarre clash with anti-doping testers ended in the destruction of a sealed vial containing a blood sample.

    According to The Times, the Chinese swimmer had a run-in with testers from IDTM (organisation responsible for conducting out-of-competition dope tests around the world), which resulted in his security guard using a hammer to smash a sealed vial containing the swimmer’s blood.

    Read Sporting News and The Sunday Times

    Read also Sun Yang threatens to sue Sunday Times over defamation 

    Photo by jdlasica

  • Colin Hill has a look around the swimming facilities at Club la Santa.

    Jan 2019, after taking my beach lifeguard course in Puerto-del-Carmen, I spend a week in Club La Santa. I’ve not been here for around 10 years, so it was interesting to see how it has changed in that time.

    Swimmers guide to Club La Santa, Lanzarote

  • Have you ever wanted to photograph swimming? Peter Read Miller offers invaluable tips on shooting the sport, from showing up to the individual breast, free, back and butterfly strokes. He’ll cover what to bring to where to stand, who to talk to and how to plan

    Top 10 Tips (with Bonus) for Shooting Swimming with SI's Peter Read Miller

  • Dozens of swimmers plunged into the icy waters of the Danube river in Belgrade on Saturday, taking part in the traditional cross retrieval race that marks Epiphany in the Julian Calendar.

  • French actor-turned-director Gilles Lellouche’s “Sink or Swim” and Xavier Legrand’s feature debut “Custody” lead the race for this year’s Cesar Awards, France’s equivalent of the Oscars, with 10 nominations each, including best picture and best director.

    “Sink or Swim” (“Le Grand Bain” in France), a star-driven dramedy about a men’s synchronized swimming team, world-premiered at Cannes out of competition and was released by Studiocanal. The ensemble film, which was one of the highest-grossing French films in 2018, picked up multiple nominations in the best supporting actor and actress categories, for Jean-Hugues Anglade, Philippe Katerine, Leila Bekhti and Virginie Efira.

    “Custody” follows a boy named Julien (Thomas Gioria), who is forced by a court ruling to split his time between his mother (Léa Drucker) and estranged father (Denis Ménochet), whom he regards as a violent monster, amid his parents’ bitter divorce. “Custody” world-premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won two awards, and went on to play at Toronto in the competitive Platform section. Drucker and Menochet were nominated for best actress and actor, respectively.

    Read Variety

    LE GRAND BAIN – Bande annonce officielle – Gilles Lellouche (2018)

  • Hidden through a door at a local swimming baths is this stunning 100 year old seemingly abandoned swimming pool. The pool is part of a swimming centre which is open to the public however this particular pool remains un-renovated and decaying.

  • Is it bad for you to stay in swimming pool water for too long? Imagine being stuck in a public pool, unable to get out of the water. “Eh, no biggie,” you say? Well, you might have a change of heart after watching this video!

  • The sky is not the limit! You need proof? Meet Kwezi Qika, South Africa’s first black longboarding champion. He started surfing at the age of 11 in Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town. He didn’t know how to swim for the first two years of his surfing career, now he lives his dream and he hasn’t forgotten his roots.

    The champion surfer who can’t swim

  • A Croatian man has braved cold waters to retrieve the coveted crucifix, during Epiphany celebrations in the Bosnian city of Visegrad on Saturday.