Swimmer's Daily

  • The FINA Diving World Series is a high-profile competition which offers an annual meeting opportunity for the world’s brightest diving stars. This prestigious and exclusive event invites internationally-recognised divers, mostly medallists from previous Olympics, World Championships and World Cups.

  • Turkish Derya Can set a new Guinness World Record for the longest freedive under ice on Friday by diving 120 meters horizontally under the frozen surface of Weissensee lake in Austria.

    With her dive, Can shattered French Aurore Asso’s record of 112,3 meters and celebrated her success with a Turkish flag.

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  • Swimming is the best sport out there. Or at least according to our “unbiased” Swimming Olympians. It moves every muscle in your body, it’s intense and you are allowed to eat whatever you want. What else do you need?

  • London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson has announced his retirement from swimming.

    The 28-year-old Scot broke his own British record to finish second in the 200m breaststroke in 2012 but struggled with form thereafter.

    Revealing the news via the Sunday Times, Jamieson talks of a brutal training regime that led to depression.

    “There were weeks I couldn’t go out,” he said. “I was living on a diet of anti-depressants and sleeping pills.”

    He added: “I just kind of sat down and started asking questions, like ‘What am I doing here? All I have to show for 20 years of work is a medal. What does that mean?’.

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  • Bob Bowman, Men’s Olympic Head Coach, USA Swimming talks about “Coaching the Best Swimmer of All Time: Michael Phelps” at the FINA Golden Coaches Clinic 2016.

  • Hungary’s government announced on Wednesday it would withdraw Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 summer Olympics, citing a lack of political and national unity behind the application, and blamed it on its opposition.

    Bidding alongside Los Angeles and Paris, Budapest had been considered a long-shot candidate, pinning its hopes on the International Olympic Committee’s Agenda 2020 initiative.

    The Budapest mayor, Istvan Tarlos, had suggested the city might quit the race after local opponents of the bid last week submitted a quarter of a million signatures in a petition demanding a local referendum on the issue.

    “For Budapest and Hungary the Olympics is a national issue,” the government said in a resolution published on the national news agency MTI. “In recent months the earlier unity has broken down and the issue of the Olympics has turned from a national issue into a party issue. Opposition parties are responsible for this, those who backtracked on their earlier decision [to back the bid].”

    Read The Guardian

  • Though the grand opening is scheduled for May, the brand new aquatic centre in Budapest, the main venue of the FINA World Championships 2017, is ready to welcome the athletes. This Wednesday it was officially announced that it would bear the name of Danube Arena.

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  • The legacy of the Rio Olympics is a farce.

    The closing ceremony was six months ago Tuesday, and already several of the venues are abandoned and falling apart. The Olympic Park is a ghost town, the lights have been turned off at the Maracana and the athlete village sits empty.

    “It’s not a good look for us,” IOC member John Coates told Around the Rings in a story published Tuesday.

    And yet it was one that so easily could have been avoided.

    The IOC will no doubt blame organizers, politicians and everyone else who saw dollar signs in Rio’s grand plans. But the billions that were wasted, the venues that so quickly became white elephants, the crippling bills for a city and country already struggling to make ends meet — this is on the IOC as much as anyone.

    It didn’t take a Nobel Prize economist to see Rio’s pitfalls back in the fall of 2009, when the IOC was selecting a 2016 host.

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