Swimmer's Daily

  • A Polish champion swimmer has reportedly swum non-stop across the Baltic Sea from Poland to the Danish isle of Bornholm in what Polish authorities are calling a tremendous feat.

    Marcin Przeworski, a helper to 26-year-old swimmer Sebastian Karas, said Karas started from Poland’s port city of Kolobrzeg on Monday evening. He tells The Associated Press that after more than 28 hours in the water, Karas reached a Bornholm beach, having covered 100 kilometers (62 miles). He says Karas was in a wetsuit and getting warm blended food every 40 minutes.

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  • Here are GTN’s top 9 open water swim skills for beginners. Open water swimming can be a bit daunting for beginner triathletes however, with these skills, you can learn to love the freedom of swimming outdoors!

  • The brown floodwaters left by Hurricane Harvey contain some very nasty health dangers, experts warn. Microbiologist Dr. Terry Gentry told Good Morning America that the water contains 125 times more bacteria than what is considered safe for swimming. He tested the water and found high levels of E. coli and coliform, bacteria associated with human and animal waste. The moving water picked up everything in its path, including fertilizer, toxic chemicals and raw sewage from flooded systems.

  • Three times gold medalist in the Olympics, Chinese swimmer Sun Yang is geared up for the upcoming competitions in the 2017 National Games in China’s coastal city of Tianjin.

    Sun will compete in seven events, including 200 meter, 1,500 meter freestyle, three relay races and 4×100 meter medley relay.

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  • As the long, hot, dry and smokey summer of 2017 in the Vancouver region draws to an unofficial but merciful end, I am grateful for a particular public amenity that in my adult life I could pretty much take or leave: the public swimming pool.

    I also owe a debt of gratitude to my eight-year-old who has dragged me – sometimes against my will – to Hillcrest pool day after day and rekindled in me not only the childhood joy of playing in the water but also an understanding of the value of an excellent community facility.

    You see, I’m not much of a swimmer – I’m not good at it and I don’t really like getting wet, especially in public and specifically when it requires the removal of my shirt. But as summer wore on, I moved from barely tolerating the outing, to accepting it, to finally enjoying it and even looking forward to it. Part of that was that it provided relief from the heat. The bigger part was watching my son, who went from an improvised dog paddle to launching himself off the edge of the diving pool with a somersault/twist combination and emerging with a huge grin and a mouthful of water that statistically has a 100-per-cent chance of containing at least some urine.

    The other realization that came to me over time was that the pool was a place for everyone, regardless of socioeconomic standing, age, race, religion, ability or body type. It is truly public, in a way that the word “public” isn’t code for “substandard.”

    Read more in The Globe and Mail

     

  • Freediver Anna Von Boetticher swims in Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas.

  • Heather Arseth, a former standout swimmer for Wayzata, takes over as head coach for the strong Trojans program this fall.

  • Hundreds of Tobagonians were gathered at the Scarborough Jetty on Monday morning to witness the THA Minority Leader, Watson Duke, and his team make their historic swim from Tobago to Trinidad.