Swimmer's Daily

  • Just shy of 100 years old, Bobbie Greenwood was honored by the Winters community — not for her age, but for inspiring swimmers in the community. Greenwood made a splash in the community by starting the swimming program at local schools.

    See WMUR

  • The United Nations Department of Public Information has launched a new animated video on the dramatic story of Yusra Mardini, a young refugee from conflict-torn Syria who achieved her dream to compete in the Olympics last year. Yusra Mardini was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on 27 April 2017. The video was produced by the Education Outreach Section in support of the Together Initiative to mark World Refugee day on 20 June and highlight the advent of the International Day of Peace on 21 September.

  • 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!