Swimmer's Daily

  • Since I learned how to swim, I always tried to improve my stroke and feel the difference between different techniques. Once I felt how a good breakout should be like, I never forgot it. It is a game changer. The first few strokes are so fast that you immediately feel the difference between a good and a bad breakout.

  • Japanese world record swimmer Mieko Nagaoka was seen training with her son Hiroyuki Nagaoka on Friday afternoon in Yanai Swimming school, Yanai city, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan.

  • California lifeguard agencies are grappling with the ramifications of a new law that’s prompting uneasy questions about the role of lifeguards in public safety.

    Title 22 mandates that all public safety personnel, including lifeguards, undergo no less than 21 hours of advanced first-aid training. This goes beyond the instruction that certifying agencies provide to better prepare lifeguards for the pre-hospital emergency medical services they sometimes must perform.

    The required training equips them with skills such as administering CPR and AED – things lifeguards typically learn on the job. But it also covers new ground. Approved training curricula also must address hemorrhage control, administration of oral glucose and how to render aid in drug and alcohol emergencies, dental emergencies, amputations and impalements, among others.

    Responsibility falls on public recreation programs to provide the training.

    Though the law went into effect in April 2015, it allowed a two-year grace period for agencies to implement a training plan. That time has passed, and some aquatics programs are still scrambling to comply.

    Read Aquatics International

    Photo by Chris Hunkeler

  • An imaginary journey swimming from city to sea, inspired by Roger Deakin’s wonderful wild swimming book, Waterlog. If you haven’t read it, I would urge you to buy a copy: http://amzn.to/2uaQy4E

  • Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty invites BBC Sport into the gym to show us his training regime.

  • Plagued by violence, white elephant sports facilities and corruption scandals, Rio de Janeiro today is unrecognizable from the feel-good city greeting the world at the Olympics exactly a year ago.

    Rio was the first South American city to hold the Summer Games and organizers were credited with staging a successful show – from the moving opening ceremony to the exploits of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and US swimming superman Michael Phelps.

    But as soon as the athletes packed their bags and cameras stopped rolling, barely hidden problems erupted.

    Eduardo Paes, mayor of Rio during the Olympics, said he had made the city, boosted by the temporary deployment of 50,000 troops, “the safest place in the world.”

    Last month, the army had to return, sending some 8,500 soldiers to support Rio’s cash-strapped police in their brutal fight against narco gangs ruling with near impunity in swaths of the city’s favelas.

    Muggings have rocketed in richer neighborhoods, parts of the favelas are like war zones, and stray bullets fired from high powered rifles mean that no one is safe.

    The last few weeks have seen gunfights spill several times onto the major highway passing the international airport, forcing drivers to stop and hide behind their cars.

    Read Rappler

    Photo by Christian Haugen

  • A Maine lobsterboat crew came to a bald eagle’s rescue after noticing it was struggling to stay afloat in the Atlantic Ocean current.

  • The FINA Swimming World Cup 2017 is quickly approaching, with over 2,000,000 in overall prize money, and Olympic and World Medallists go straight to the finals. All eyes are will be on the pool!

  • Before you take a dip, know this: There is definitely pee in the swimming pool. But, it’s probably not that much.