Swimmer's Daily

  • The 44th Edition of the longest open water race is right around the corner! The FINA Ultramarathon Swim Series 2018 will kick off in Santa Fe Coronda, Argentina on February 4, 2018.

  • My old swimming club didn`t have a promo-video, so i made them one.

    https://youtu.be/3em6FXQjulQ

  • Tim is an experienced athlete who has been studying in college in the United States for a long time. He is from Germany and played different sports. This is a summary of what he has done last years as a college swimmer at Lindenwood University in Belleville, IL.

  • Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky opted to sentence Turner to six months in jail and three years of probation, setting off outrage in the community and beyond.

  • 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!