Swimmer's Daily

  • Twenty-one schools participate in the program, which is called Students on the Swim. They’re expecting to have 2,100 students.

  • Stormy weather can affect swimming pools, both outdoor and indoors. During bad weather, a swimming pool can be a dangerous place.

  • Olympic Champion Sarah Sjöström feat. MÃ¥ns Zelmerlöw – a cinematic personal film with the Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjöström. The film follows Sjöström where she travels to the Swedish Island Gotland to regain mental strength. The audience get to know Sjöström from a close perspective where she reveals her inner emotions and talks about the tuff times in her career. “I thought of giving up many times”, the 23-year old Sjöström admits as we see her lying awake at night in bed.

  • Russia has been warned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that is must fulfill at least 12 more criteria before they can be ruled to be compliant with international rules.

    The reinstatement by WADA of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is seen as key to the country being welcomed back in to the international sports community, particularly athletics, where they remain suspended.

    WADA suspended RUSADA after it was banned from testing in November 2015 following an independent investigation that discovered systematic violations of anti-doping regulations.

    A subsequent investigation alleged evidence of a state-sponsored doping programme in Russia, which the Kremlin has denied.

    Top of the “Roadmap to Code Compliance”, a document published by WADA, is that the Russian Government – through the Ministry of Sport – must “publicly accept the reported outcomes of the McLaren Investigation”.

    Russia’s former Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko, now the Deputy Prime Minister, has consistently criticised the findings of the McLaren Report, published in July 2016 which found evidence of systematic state-sponsored doping and attempts to cover up positive tests by the Russian Government before, during and after London 2012 and Sochi 2014 and several other major international events.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin denied in December 2016 that the Government supported its athletes taking drugs or the existence of a state-sponsored doping programme.

    He did acknowledge Russia had experienced doping problems.

    Read Inside the Games

  • John Martin of USA Swimming discusses the best types of content to get your club noticed on Instagram.

  • Hotels in Budapest during the two weeks of the 2017 World Aquatics Championships this July 14-30 had occupancy rates over 90% and average room prices were double the usual, according to state news wire MTI.

    Around 485,000 spectators viewed sports events at five locations in Budapest and Balatonfüred as part of the 17th FINA World Aquatics Championships which concluded on Sunday, Minister of National Development Miklós Seszták said on Monday. The fan zones at Margaret Island and the Danube Arena in Budapest had more than 400,000 visitors, he added.

    In a separate report, MTI quoted Julio Maglione, president of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), as acknowledging Hungaryʼs government, the local councils of Budapest and Balatonfüred, the organizers and thousands of volunteers for contributing to the “best ever” FINA World Aquatics Championships at the eventʼs closing ceremony on Sunday.

    Read Budapest Business Journal

  • Before he got in the water on Saturday, Lewis Pugh was terrified.

    Mr. Pugh, 47, is a British endurance swimmer who has conquered a gantlet of extraordinary swims in the last 30 years, from a dip in a glacial lake in Mt. Everest to a full circuit around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, where he was raised. He has no problem with swimming, per se.

    But on Saturday, he was set to dive into an ocean that was 31 degrees Fahrenheit (-0.5 degrees Celsius), situated along the edge of an Arctic ice pack. Had it been fresh water, it would have already been frozen.

    “You just don’t know how your body’s going to respond to this type of thing because no human’s ever done it before,” Mr. Pugh said in an interview on Tuesday. “All the fear is on your shoulders.”

    Read The New York Times

  • It’s summertime in California and boy is it hot.

    What better way to cool off in our beautiful state’s nature than a hike to a rare swimming hole? Don’t know of any?

    Well, somebody wrote a book about all the state’s best swimming holes.

    Tim Joyce penned the “Swimming Holes of California.” He’s not only written about the dozens of the best swimming holes in our state, but he’s hiked to all of them. And jumped in.

    “Everybody asks me the question, ‘Where are the best swimming holes,’ well, what do you want,” Joyce asked. “A beach? Do you want cliffs? There’s something for everyone.”

    See ABC 10

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