Swimmer's Daily

  • The official Speedo film of the 1964 Olympic Swimming events featuring the great swimmers, techniques and highlights from the Games. 12 new World Records and every Olympic record broken.

  • The context for the milestone achievements of a Michael Phelps or a Katie Ledecky lies with knowing the history of their forerunners. The International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale plays a key role in preserving the memory of all aquatic history. Annette Kellerman, was not only the most famous swimmer in her day, but perhaps, the most famous woman in the world.

  • Surfers are half as likely to be attacked by sharks as kayakers, new research has shown.

    But windsurfers, fishers and boogie-boarders have the least chance of suffering a shark attack.

    New data from the Shark Research Committee said of nine authenticated unprovoked shark attacks reported from the Pacific Coast of North America during 2017, four were suffered by kayakers, two by surfers, one each by a paddle-boarder, freediver and a swimmer.

    The SRC 2017 Pacific Coast attack dossier reported these comprised eight attacks recorded from California and one from Washington.

    The report said the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, was positively identified or highly suspected in all nine of the attacks.

    In the SRC publication Shark Attacks of the Twentieth Century, which authenticates 108 unprovoked shark attacks from the Pacific Coast between 1900 and 1999., the great white was implicated in 94 (87%) of the confirmed attacks.

    There have been 211 authenticated unprovoked shark attacks reported from the Pacific Coast of North America from 1900 through 2017.

    The great white shark was positively identified or highly suspect in 186 (88 per cent) of the 211 cases.

    Read The Northern Star

  • USA Swimming, the sport’s national governing body, is being investigated by the U.S. House of Representatives, as Capitol Hill expands its focus on sexual abuse within the American Olympic movement.

    The House Committee on Energy and Commerce informed USA Swimming president and chief executive officer Tim Hinchey on Friday that it is “investigating matters related to sexual abuse within organized sports, including USA Swimming.”

    “The abhorrent abuses associated with USA Gymnastics, as well as allegations in 2014, when 19 swimmers said they were sexually abused by their coaches, may raise concerns about whether your organization has sufficient mechanisms to protect your athletes from abuse and mistreatment. Accordingly, the Committee is seeking information from USA Swimming because of the role it plays in overseeing swimming and protecting all of its athletes,” the committee wrote.

    The committee on Friday asked USA Swimming to provide answers to three primary questions by Feb. 9: “When was USA Swimming made aware of sexual abuse allegations in 2014, is USA Swimming aware of any other sexual abuse allegations within the swimming community, and does USA Swimming have policies and procedures in place to properly report, handle, and investigate sexual abuse when it has been reported to them?”

    Read The Orange County Register

    Photo by Lorie Shaull

  • Enjoy watching this swimming pool oscillate and overflow thanks to the high winds buffeting the high-rise building it is installed in. Good job they put a towel on the floor!

  • SwimOutlet.com, the web’s biggest swim shop and a top 300 Internet Retailer in the U.S., has hired retail industry veteran Bill Pond as its new President of SwimOutlet.com. Pond was most recently Senior VP, E-Commerce, International & Direct to Business at L.L.Bean where he spent 16 years.

    “The time is right to bring in an executive to laser focus on our swim business,” said Avi Benaroya, Founder & CEO of Spiraledge, Inc., SwimOutlet.com’s parent company. “With vast e-commerce and sales experience along with his own background and personal passion for swimming, Bill is the perfect leader to take SwimOutlet.com to the next level in its continued growth.”

    “There are over 26 million swimmers in the U.S. as well as millions of triathletes, beach-goers, surfers, water polo players and other lovers of aquatic activities,” said Pond. “As e-commerce continues to flourish and with multiple swimming product categories primed for growth, the possibilities for SwimOutlet.com are endless.”

    SwimOutlet.com is the Official Online Retailer of USA Swimming and also maintains partnerships with U.S. Masters Swimming, Swim Across America, USA Synchro and the College Swim Coaches Association of America, among others. Pond begins his role in late January and will relocate from Maine to the San Jose, California area.

    Press release from SwimOutlet.com

  • A tiny robot with moves inspired by caterpillars and jellyfish is small enough to crawl, walk and swim inside the human body. Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/2FbGdXA

  • Traveled to Cape Town, South Africa for my first photoshoot of 2018 with Arena and Olympic champions Chad Le Clos and Sarah sjostrom.
    Did some exploring with a super car.

    https://youtu.be/dnWLxKMl0_Q

  • HSBC alum Phillip is a 14 times gold medal Master Swimmer medallist. Philip shares his expert advice on how to succeed in the world of swimming.