Swimmer's Daily

  • Can Michael Phelps beat his toughest rival yet?

  • Michael Phelps dives with Great Whites for the first time.

  • Michael Phelps geeks out over his love of sharks and reveals just how close he was willing to get to his favorite animals to race it for Shark Week’s Phelps Vs Shark: Great Gold Vs Great White.

  • More than 2,200 swimmers participated in the 29th Samsung Cross-Continental Swimming Race from Asia to Europe across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.

    Some 2,277 swimmers from 49 countries swam the course, which started at Kanlica pier on the Asian side and ended six-and-a-half kilometres (4 miles) later in front of Kurucesme Cemil Topuzlu Park on the European side.

    TRT World’s Denee Savoia reports the annual race.

    See TRT World

  • Australia’s Cate Campbell says she felt betrayed by swimming in the wake of her flop at last year’s Rio Olympics where she was tipped to win gold in the 50 and 100 metres freestyle events but failed to even get on the podium.

    The former 100 freestyle world champion later remarked that it was “possibly the greatest choke in Olympic history” and broke down in tears in a televised interview.

    Taking a long lay-off after Rio, Campbell has elected to skip the ongoing world championships in Budapest where Swede Sarah Sjostrom smashed the Australian’s 100 freestyle world record with a 51.71 second lead-off swim during the 4×100 relay on Sunday.

    Despite winning relay gold and silver in Rio, Campbell said she felt “let down” by a sport she had worked so hard to dominate. “It hurt me deeply in the way that if you are in a relationship with someone. Swimming let me down,” she said in comments published by The Australian newspaper.

    “It’s strange, because it was 100 percent me (at fault) and I was in control, but I felt like I had given so much of myself to this thing and it had just really let me down and I was feeling really hurt by it.”

    Campbell added that she was too scared to return to the pool until she had a casual swim at her Brisbane training pool six weeks after the Games.

    “I hadn’t been in the water at all, I had no desire to,” the 25-year-old said. “I was bitter and I was angry and I was frustrated and I was scared and I knew I wanted to make changes in my life but I didn’t know how drastic the changes needed to be and I probably needed that first swim to put everything back in perspective and put all of those demons to rest.”

    Read Euronews

  • One in three primary school leavers cannot swim one length of a pool, a report has found, amid concern that a lack of lessons is leading to rise in young people drowning.

    Official data shows forty people aged 19 and under drowned in the UK last year, representing an increase of 25 per cent from 2015.

    In total 300 people of all ages died by drowning last year, with the summer holidays typically seeing a spike in cases involving children.

    Read The Telegraph

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  • The swimming “Iron Lady” Katinka Hosszú won gold in front of her home crowd fans, with her third straight 200 IM World Title on the second night of the Finals at the World Championships in Budapest!

  • Members of Aquanuts and Aquamaids reveal the sacrifices – both inside the pool and out – required for elite synchronised swimming.

  • 130 km from Budapest, the Hungarian capital, Lake Balaton has been the scene of gold diggers in open water. And at this little game, the French were the strongest. Can not stop them! Like Axel Raymond, winning a marathon in the water of 25 km in 5 hours 02 minutes and 46 seconds to perfect the balance of the tricolor: 6 medals, including 4 titles … in only 7 races!