Swimmer's Daily

  • Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty invites BBC Sport into the gym to show us his training regime.

  • Plagued by violence, white elephant sports facilities and corruption scandals, Rio de Janeiro today is unrecognizable from the feel-good city greeting the world at the Olympics exactly a year ago.

    Rio was the first South American city to hold the Summer Games and organizers were credited with staging a successful show – from the moving opening ceremony to the exploits of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and US swimming superman Michael Phelps.

    But as soon as the athletes packed their bags and cameras stopped rolling, barely hidden problems erupted.

    Eduardo Paes, mayor of Rio during the Olympics, said he had made the city, boosted by the temporary deployment of 50,000 troops, “the safest place in the world.”

    Last month, the army had to return, sending some 8,500 soldiers to support Rio’s cash-strapped police in their brutal fight against narco gangs ruling with near impunity in swaths of the city’s favelas.

    Muggings have rocketed in richer neighborhoods, parts of the favelas are like war zones, and stray bullets fired from high powered rifles mean that no one is safe.

    The last few weeks have seen gunfights spill several times onto the major highway passing the international airport, forcing drivers to stop and hide behind their cars.

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    Photo by Christian Haugen

  • A Maine lobsterboat crew came to a bald eagle’s rescue after noticing it was struggling to stay afloat in the Atlantic Ocean current.

  • The FINA Swimming World Cup 2017 is quickly approaching, with over 2,000,000 in overall prize money, and Olympic and World Medallists go straight to the finals. All eyes are will be on the pool!

  • Before you take a dip, know this: There is definitely pee in the swimming pool. But, it’s probably not that much.

  • Twenty-one schools participate in the program, which is called Students on the Swim. They’re expecting to have 2,100 students.

  • Stormy weather can affect swimming pools, both outdoor and indoors. During bad weather, a swimming pool can be a dangerous place.

  • Olympic Champion Sarah Sjöström feat. MÃ¥ns Zelmerlöw – a cinematic personal film with the Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjöström. The film follows Sjöström where she travels to the Swedish Island Gotland to regain mental strength. The audience get to know Sjöström from a close perspective where she reveals her inner emotions and talks about the tuff times in her career. “I thought of giving up many times”, the 23-year old Sjöström admits as we see her lying awake at night in bed.

  • Russia has been warned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that is must fulfill at least 12 more criteria before they can be ruled to be compliant with international rules.

    The reinstatement by WADA of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is seen as key to the country being welcomed back in to the international sports community, particularly athletics, where they remain suspended.

    WADA suspended RUSADA after it was banned from testing in November 2015 following an independent investigation that discovered systematic violations of anti-doping regulations.

    A subsequent investigation alleged evidence of a state-sponsored doping programme in Russia, which the Kremlin has denied.

    Top of the “Roadmap to Code Compliance”, a document published by WADA, is that the Russian Government – through the Ministry of Sport – must “publicly accept the reported outcomes of the McLaren Investigation”.

    Russia’s former Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko, now the Deputy Prime Minister, has consistently criticised the findings of the McLaren Report, published in July 2016 which found evidence of systematic state-sponsored doping and attempts to cover up positive tests by the Russian Government before, during and after London 2012 and Sochi 2014 and several other major international events.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin denied in December 2016 that the Government supported its athletes taking drugs or the existence of a state-sponsored doping programme.

    He did acknowledge Russia had experienced doping problems.

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