Swimmer's Daily

  • The Swimsenseâ„¢ Live is a waterproof fitness-tracking device that uses proprietary algorithms to record the most accurate swim workout data. Designed to help all swimmers, from beginner to elite, optimize time spent in the water. The Swimsenseâ„¢ Live is engineered to capture stroke count, total distance, time/pace and more. Using the FINIS Liveâ„¢ application, users can view and share workout data from multiple devices.

  • Double Commonwealth Games (400m Individual Medley) Champion, Hannah Miley and coach/father Patrick Miley explain the new arena Pullkick Pro!

  • A Russian hacker group known as “Fancy Bears” has accessed and leaked medical files from some of the most popular Olympic athletes, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed. Venus and Serena Williams, as well as gymnast Simone Biles, were among the targets. The attack isn’t all that surprising, considering that WADA recommended banning all of Russia’s Olympic contenders this year after it discovered a long-running state-run doping program. Ultimately, more than 100 Russian athleteswere banned from this year’s summer Olympics.

    “WADA condemns these ongoing cyber-attacks that are being carried out in an attempt to undermine WADA and the global anti-doping system,” said WADA director general Olivier Niggli in a statement. “Let it be known that these criminal acts are greatly compromising the effort by the global anti-doping community to re-establish trust in Russia further to the outcomes of the Agency’s independent McLaren Investigation Report,” he added.

    WADA believes the hackers used spear phishing attacks to acquire passwords for their administrative interface around the Rio Olympics. Naturally, the agency says it’s working with law enforcement to investigate the attack, and it’s take a closer look at its security capabilities. The documents that Fancy Bears released on Twitter points to the Williams sisters using banned substances over the past few years for therapeutic purposes, but, it’s important to note it was all authorized by WADA.

    Read Engadget

    https://youtu.be/T1ak_iVNkBQ

  • Michael Phelps may be retired, but he’s still the real swim Shady.

    During his appearance on Spike’s “Lip Sync Battle: All-Stars Live” on Sunday night, the sensational swimmer channeled his angry Olympic “Phelps face” during his rendition of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” to take home the first-ever all-star title.

    In related news, Eminem warns Michael Phelps, ‘wait until you see me swim’

    https://youtu.be/McaSkk9d_2E

  • One of the protesters arrested during “Dancing with the Stars” Monday night, tells Access Hollywood how he feels about 12-time Olympic medalist and “DWTS” contestant, Ryan Lochte.

  • Protesters rushed the stage of Dancing With The Stars on Monday to confront swimmer Ryan Lochte, forcing ABC to cut to an unscheduled commercial break.

    Lochte and his dance partner were in the midst of receiving a critique from judge Carrie Ann Inaba when she told some people repeatedly to “back off” as staff can be seen and heard moving toward the stage.

    The actual rushing of the stage didn’t make it to air, but subsequent photos on Twitter show the assailants were wearing anti-Lochte shirts.

    A group of protestors wearing the same shirts were in the audience, who can be heard chanting “liar, liar” before they were ushered off set, as shown in an Instagram video by former swimmer Eddie Moses.

    Read Mashable

    https://youtu.be/e-YkzonSgRM

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BKR2npzgxhb/

  • Ryan Lochte reveals which person in his life he told first that he would be competing during Season 23 of “Dancing with the Stars.” Plus, his pro partner, Cheryl Burke, reveals how rehearsals are going.

    https://youtu.be/ViWu3l-4xNM

  • Rio 2016 organisers hailed the second most attended Paralympic Games in history as Saturday’s sell-out crowd of 167,675 in the Olympic Park beat the attendance of 157,000 on the busiest day of the Olympics.

    Barely a fortnight after organisers were forced to announce cuts to these Games because of a serious budget crisis caused by an apparent lack of interest from locals and the struggling Brazilian economy, the Paralympics came to life on the third day of competition in Rio. It was impossible to buy a ticket in the Olympic Park on Saturday, while a combined crowd of 48,325 attended the morning and evening sessions at the Olympic Stadium.

    The financial problems came to light when ticket sales stalled at a paltry 200,000 last month, representing 12% of the available capacity. Sir Philip Craven, president of the International Paralympic Committee, warned that the Paralympic movement faced the most challenging circumstances in its 56-year history.

    Yet affordable pricing and a concerted publicity drive led sales to rise to 1.8m, surpassing the 1.7m sold in Beijing eight years ago. The 2.8m tickets sold at London 2012 remains the figure to beat but Rio organisers are hopeful of meeting their revised target of 2.4m.

    See Rio 2016 on YouTube and read The Guardian

  • The Olympic Games have been plagued by issues in recent days in Brazil.

    It looks like the Organisers may be about to have one of their biggest problems in the coming days, as many volunteers are not turning up to do their jobs. Volunteers work in all areas of the events from athlete assistance to helping fans reach the venues around the city.

    According to Luis Moreira, a former volunteer, many have left their positions due to the poor working conditions.

    “Many volunteers had to quit because they had to work two weeks in a row”, he told CBC. “Schedules were messed up, lots of people quit because of the food: they were told to work eight, nine hours and were only provided with a little snack.”

    “I don’t think the organising committee had enough consideration for people’s lives and welfare. It was as though the organising committee was doing us a favour. The committee uses the volunteers to make money, uses us for free labour.”

    The conditions which the volunteers are working in, is in stark contrast to those of the IOC officials. It was revealed before the Games, that the IOC top-brass were given an €800 daily allowance for food during the Olympics.

    Around 50,000 volunteers were given jobs ahead of the Games, the New York Daily News, claim that 15,000 have already left their posts, despite being called “the backbone of the Games” by an IOC spokesman.

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