Swimmer's Daily

  • Transgender athlete Schuyler Bailar is breaking records the hard way — by being himself. The Harvard University swimmer, who was assigned female at birth, is the first openly transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team.

    Bailar, 21, began his transition shortly before starting college in 2014. He wants LGBTQ youth to know that athletes like him exist.

    “I mean me as a trans athlete who’s healthy, who’s happy, who’s out there, who’s succeeding, who’s doing what he loves, who gets to be who he is — I want kids to see that,” Bailar told NBC News.

    Bailar went to high school in Virginia, where he was a star competitor on the girl’s swim team. His junior year, he broke his back during a mountain biking trip, rendering him unable to swim.

    “Breaking my back broke me,” Bailar said, “because up until then swimming was my entire life.”

    Read Euronews

  • 800 of the country’s top swimmers are in Auckland this week for the National Short Course Championships. Among them are two young Māori swimmers representing Wellington. And as Te Okiwa McLean reports, swimming is not the only sport the pair excel in.

  • Swim Across America held its inaugural open water swim in Charlotte Sept. 23, 2017. It attracted hundreds of swimmers, dozens of volunteers and surpassed its $140k fundraising goal.

  • In addition to passing a Pre-entry Fitness Assessment, you will be required to pass a basic swim test before entry into the Navy.
    This video shows you what to expect and how to carry out each of the four exercises.

    https://youtu.be/gr5UDsTpQuk

  • This is a short informational and awareness video on the difficulties someone with my sort of disability experiences every time they visit a swimming pool or water park, and my ideas to mitigate these sorts of issues.

  • His foundation and The Athem foundation team up to help children lead healthy lives

  • Adam Peaty and James Guy are among the first 15 swimmers selected to Team England for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

  • The head of last year’s Olympics and Paralympics deposited 16 gold bars in Switzerland, prosecutors claimed on Thursday, after he was arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged bribery scheme to bring the Games to Rio.

    Carlos Nuzman, the president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) and honorary International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, was held after federal police staged a dawn swoop on his home.

    That followed a raid last month in which £118,000 in cash was seized after being found in a closet, with Nuzman’s passport also confiscated before he was summoned for questioning.

    The headquarters of the COB was searched as well as part of an operation named ‘Unfair Play’.

    Nuzman was arrested on Thursday after being accused of having “clearly acted to obstruct the investigation” by altering his tax returns about two weeks after he was questioned.

    According to the arrest order, Nuzman – who chaired the Rio 2016 organising committee – added around $600,000 (£456,540) in income to his return in a way which “indicated it was illicit”.

    Investigators also said they had recovered from last month’s raid a key for a safe in Switzerland thought to contain 16 one-kilogram gold bars.

    Read The Telegraph

  • At Swim it Right, you’re never too young or old to start learning. Students learn through fun activities and technical drills, and lessons are designed with skill association and step-by-step progression in mind.