Swimmer's Daily

  • Big thanks to everyone who has been supporting me.

    HOW I LOST, a BIG update video

  • Turkey’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) organized on 22 July this year the 30th Samsung Bosphorus Cross Continental Swimming Race attracting 2404 swimmers from 52 swimmers, including a record 713 women.

  • Conestoga Swim Club’s swim team had a season filled with fun, friendships, and memories. There is nothing quite like summer swimming. Thank you to everyone who helped out to make this film possible!

    Conestoga Swim Team 2018 | Best Season Ever Video

  • What do kids learn in swimming lessons? Find out in their own words! Learn lifelong water safety skills through Red Cross swim programs

    https://youtu.be/P5etE7jRhMo

  • From the small town of LaSalle, Ont., all the way to the Olympic podium, Kylie Masse never thought this much success was possible so soon.

    Canadian Swimmer Kylie Masse Continues to Improve and Impress

  • Take a look back at the 2018 Make a Splash Tour including the unveiling of the world’s largest kick board.

  • Noelle Singleton challenges any swim-cap maker who claims a swimmer’s hair won’t get wet with their caps to send her one. She’ll post a review on social media of her swimming a 100-meter individual medley in it.

    Swim caps matter for Singleton, a 30-year-old black swim coach in Georgia with a thick, full-moon-shaped afro. Known on her AfroSwimmers Instagram account as Coach With the Fro, she has been offering swim lessons that target the black community for 16 years. The first question she always gets from female clients, she says, is: “What do I do with my hair?” She gives them tips, including which swim caps to buy. But, “I tell them up front: Please expect your hair to get wet,” Singleton says.

    Historically, swimming pools have played a murky part in racial segregation and disparity in the United States. Despite a public-pool boom in the 1950s and ’60s, generations of black people have not learned how to swim. In 2017, a report from the USA Swimming Foundation found that 64.2 percent of black adults said they had no or low swimming abilities, versus 39.7 percent of white people. Among the black parents in that group, 78 percent said their children had no or low swimming abilities, too.

    Read The Atlantic

     

  • More than 600 swimmers from 13 countries have stroked their way through one of Russia’s most scenic and historic settings, circling the St Petersburg island that holds the Peter and Paul Fortress.

    The 2.3-kilometre (1.42-mile) circuit – which some swam twice – took them around the famous site noted for the needle-thin golden church spire that rises 122 metres (402ft) high.

    The cathedral is where most Russian tsars since Peter the Great are buried.

    It is a tough swim not only for its length but because of strong currents and seaweed in the Neva River.

    Read ITV

  • Course Tour – LEN European Open Water Swimming Championships – Loch Lomond, Glasgow 2018