Swimmer's Daily

  • Watch some of the best moments from the second event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Berlin (Germany) including the highlights of Jeanette Ottesen, Katinka Hosszu, Chad le Clos and more.

  • Saturday 29th of October will be the inaugural date of the 1st MARNATON SwimRun Cap de Creus. A challenge that combines the two disciplines of running and swimming consecutively over a marked course comprising 18km running and 5km swimming.

    The adventure will start in the Port of Roses, either in pairs or individually, participants will cross the Cala Montjoi, go up the Cap Norfeu and end in the Paseo de Cadaqués.

    See Marnaton

  • If you were unfortunate enough to drown in London during the mid- to late 18th century, further indignities likely awaited you. A member of the public may have attempted to revive you by furiously pumping tobacco smoke into your rectum. 

    The tobacco smoke enema was one of the resuscitation techniques recommended by London’s Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, an organization formed in 1774 with the aim of developing and administering lifesaving first-aid to those on death’s door. At the time, resuscitation was still a new and novel concept, and the idea of touching a dead person was thoroughly unappealing to most. To encourage resuscitation attempts, the Society’s founders, doctors William Hawes and Thomas Cogan,offered cash prizes to anyone who could prove they had brought someone back to life.

    Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, was still centuries away from common usage. Instead of pumping the chest or giving mouth-to-mouth to a drowning victim—a practice that prominent British doctor William Hunter called “vulgar” in 1776—rescuers employed a variety of other dubious methods when attempting to revive those with waterlogged lungs. Rubbing the skin, inflating the lungs via a tube inserted into the trachea, and bloodletting were among the approaches. The most creative technique, however, was rectal tobacco insufflation—piping smoke into the unconscious person’s intestines via a bellows inserted in the anus.


    Read Atlas Obscura

  • The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that, again today, the cyber hacker Group “Fancy Bear” released a batch of confidential athlete data on their website, which they illegally obtained from a Rio 2016 Olympic Games account of WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS).

    This time, the group released data concerning 41 athletes from 13 countries, including: 4 from Australia; 7 from Canada; 1 from Croatia; 2 from Denmark; 2 from Germany; 6 from Great Britain; 5 from Italy; 1 from Japan; 2 from Serbia; 1 from South Africa; 2 from Switzerland; 1 from Sweden and 7 from the United States.

    The athletes are from the sports of Athletics, Basketball, Cycling, Fencing, Field Hockey, Golf Gymnastics, Judo, Rowing, Rugby, Sailing, Shooting, Soccer, Swimming, Table Tennis, Volley Ball, and Water Polo.

    Read WADA

  • Watch some of the best moments from the first event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Paris-Chartes (France).

  • Eight Brazilians suspected of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack at the Rio Olympics were handed terrorism charges by a Brazil judge on Friday, according to Reuters. The group has been called “amateurs” by Brazilian officials but it’s believed their plans could have greatly disrupted the first Games ever held in South America.

    Brazilian officials, acting on a tip from the FBI, tracked down and arrested the men in July, two weeks before the Olympics began. Six others have also been detained but not charged, Reuters reported.

    The eight who have been arraigned face charges of promoting a terrorist organization and criminal association, while five of the suspects face charges of “inciting children and adolescents to commit crimes.” One has been charged with recruiting for a terrorist group.

    “It wasn’t a professional terrorist organization. They were amateurs, but they could have endangered the Olympics and the nation,” Brazil justice minister Alexandre de Moraes said reporters.

    Read International Business Times

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  • The logo for LEN European Short Course Championship 2017, to be held next year on the 13 to 17 December in Royal Arena in Copenhagen is now revealed. With the revealing of the logo an important part of the puzzle, when it comes to the visual expression for next year’s European Championship in Denmark, has fallen into place. With this, the visuals of the championships are beginning to take shape.

    LEN European Short Course Championship 2017 will be the first sport event in the new multi arena of Copenhagen, Royal Arena. When the championships takes place, two temporary pools will be built in the arena, in which the up towards 600 participating athletes from 45 expected countries will fight for honor and medals.

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    “With our new logo we have a goal of making it easily recognizable that the event takes place in Denmark. Apart from that, we would also like to visually communicate, that the event takes place in Royal Arena, and that it temporarily will be filled with water, which is quite special. We are looking forward to giving the championship a visual identity and to brand and market the championship both nationally and internationally.” Says head of event, Mads Bang Aaen, who adds:

    “When it comes to logos and design in general, there is seldom anything that is completely right or wrong, your opinion matters just as much as the next ones. Of course, we hope that people will welcome our logo and that they find it nice. It is important that people can recognize that the championships are held in Denmark and Royal Arena through the logo”

    Tickets for LEN European Short Course Championship 2017 are expected to go into sale during the autumn of 2016. When Royal Arena is modified to host a short course swimming event of this caliber with two pools it is expected to have a capacity of about 6,500 spectators, who will help create a fantastic atmosphere for the best swimmers in Europe.

    LEN European Short Course Championship 2017 is hosted by The Danish Swimming Federation and their partners, Sport Event Denmark, Copenhagen Municipality, Region Hovedstaden and Wonderful Copenhagen.

    The logo is developed in corporation with design- and graphics company Formegon.

    Press release from the Danish Swimming Federation

  • Flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony and competing for Zimbabwe in the pool, five time Olympian Kirsty Coventry shares her Rio diary.