Swimmer's Daily

  • The Budapest Urban Games is back for only the second time in its history and this year the event includes a swim across the Danube.

    Among the 263 participants were a few celebrities, including former lightweight boxing champion István Kovács.

    Just before the swim he told Euronews:

    “When l heard about swimming in the Danube in Budapest, which is like a bucket list event, it was obvious I just had to take part in the event.”

    The swim starts from the Pest side and finishes on the Buda side100 metres away from the starting point.

    Read Euronews

  • Samsung is diving headfirst into wearable computers, announcing a partnership with the iconic Australian swimwear maker Speedo to produce a range of swimming-related wearables that will automatically track your every move in the water.

    Ahead of the mammoth IFA electronics tradeshow here in Berlin, Samsung announced two new, water-resistant devices, the Gear Fit2 Pro sports band and the Gear Sport smart watch, both of which will work with Speedo’s “On” app to track lap count, lap time and stroke type when they’re worn in the pool.

    Samsung had been expected to announce the Gear S4, an update to its popular Gear S3 smartwatch, but instead it announced the Gear Sport, amounting to a slightly smaller, more sports-oriented version of the Gear S3, as well as the Gear Fit2 Pro, both of which will be water-resitant to five atmospheres, Samsung said.

    Five atmospheres of water pressure is roughly equivalent to being 50 metres below the surface.

    Read The Australian Financial Review

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  • Learn about the surprising multi-million dollar bingo businesses that keep the two synchronised swimming clubs afloat.

  • We believe that swimming is a sport for all, a sport for life.

    Scottish Swimming is fully committed to the principles of Equality and equal opportunities and is responsible for ensuring that no job applicant, employee or member receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics.

    In addition Scottish Swimming will endeavour to provide open open access to all those who wish to participate in swimming
    within the competitive environment through its organisation of affiliated clubs and it will work closely with key partners and local authorities to help influence other organisations do the same within different aspects of the sport.

  • We have talked about the importance of rotation of the body in freestyle. I promised to post a video about drills to help you rotate properly. Here it is! We will go over three exercises.

  • Angela Beale grew up in North Philadelphia and gives back through a program at Temple that addresses staggering disparities in childhood drowning rates by teaching kids from Philadelphia communities to swim. Read more: https://news.temple.edu/news/2017-09-…

  • You can swim with flamingos at Flamingo Beach, Aruba.

  • Harrison Central swimmer Shelva Border swam four extra laps to encourage exhausted Biloxi swimmer Shelby Fitzhugh to finish her 500-yard event at the Biloxi Natatorium.

  • You don’t know how to swim? But it’s so easy! Just jump in the water and swim! See? So easy.