Swimmer's Daily

  • Sep 7, 2017, the next day of Ning Zetao’s 2nd win at the National Games of China, Coach Matt Brown was interviewed and shared his thoughts on Ning Zetao’s performances at the national games and Rio last year. He also discussed Ning’s potential to win medals again at the international competitions, and also his issues of returning to the national team.

  • USA Swimming is partnered with Sigma Gamma Rho sorority in an effort to provide learn to swim opportunities in under served areas.

  • Virgin Active South Africa’s ‘Safe to Swim’ programme was started to ensure that all managers on duty at their health clubs would be prepared in case of an emergency in the pool.

    What was intended to ensure that their members would always be safe became an opportunity for staff to face their fears and learn a life-saving skill, have a watch of the video below as we explore the story of Jane Matala.

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  • It’s not very often the most decorated Olympian of all time is in your baby’s swim class — but when he is, you pay attention.

    Michael Phelps, his wife Nicole and 1-year-old son Boomer came to New York City this summer to participate in a swim class put on by the Phelps Foundation and Huggies Little Swimmers — and somehow, my 1-year-old daughter and I were able to attend. (Phelps is a paid spokesperson for Huggies.) Taught by Phelps’ childhood swim coach Cathy Bennett, the class focused on how to teach young children to safely enjoy the water.

    Read more on Today

    https://youtu.be/A6K_Y7KB_cM

  • Olympic tickets usually sell pretty quickly, but when the country on your northern border makes regular threats about launching nuclear weapons, that can have a chilling effect on sales.

    South Korea’s learning that lesson, as domestic ticket sales for the PyeongChang games, which start in roughly five months, have been incredibly slow. Of the 750,000 seats organizers hope to sell to South Koreans, just 52,000have been sold so far.

    International sales have been a bit better, with half of the 320,000 allocated tickets sold.

    Read Fortune

    https://youtu.be/nOjKyIfCwKE

  • Weather impacted the third round of the Omega European Masters Saturday, but Michael Phelps had time to win a celebrity event and Scott Hend leads by two.

    Video from another event

  • When Brock Turner was convicted on three felony counts last summer (assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated or unconscious person, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration of an unconscious person), he was sentenced to only six months in prison, with the expectation (now fulfilled) that he would be released after three. To pretty much everyone except Turner’s direct relatives and fellow rapists, this was a huge blow to the hope of justice for sexual assault victims.

    But while Turner might be out of prison, here’s a bright spot we can revel in to our justice-seeking, schadenfreudic hearts’ content: in a new addition to a Criminal Justice 101 text, he is the literal textbook definition of rape.

    One student posted a picture of her textbook to Facebook:

    Read The Mary Sue

  • You have to hear about his babies swimming lessons!

  • World Championship gold medallist and Australia’s backstroke queen Emily Seebohm has today been nominated for one of the most prestigious sporting awards, ‘The Don Award’, presented by the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

    The Award is widely regarded as Australia’s leading contemporary sporting award and named in honour of Australian sporting Legend and our inaugural Sport Australia Hall of Fame Inductee, the late Sir Donald Bradman AC.

    ‘The Don’ is awarded annually to the athlete or team who; through their performance and example over the past 12 months (September 2016-August 2017) has most inspired the nation.

    Read Swimming Australia