Swimmer's Daily

  • This is the gigantic Cockroach pool float manufactured by Kangaroo (it was made in a pouch!) and available on Amazon for $30. Or you can buy one from me for $20, but I’ll never actually send it. I’ll swear up and down I did, but I did not, I lied. Also, what’s that look that lady is giving me? Does she want me to rub suntan lotion on her back? Or does she want me to do a cannonball and splash her as much as I can? “Probably just stop staring.” You think the binoculars are too much?

    Read Geekologie

    giant-cockroach-raft

  • The familiar smell of chlorinated water. The feeling of cool air against unclothed skin. The cacophony of laughter, splashes and sharp intakes of breath. And, the nervous feeling in the pit of your stomach as you take the plunge.

    The swimming pool is usually a place where the water makes you feel free and safe. Indeed, for a great deal of us, the act of going to a swimming pool is something that involves little thought or anxiety.

    But, what if the thought of going swimming filled you with fear? If the very idea of entering a changing room prevented you from exercising?

    This fear of what should be a safe public space is something that transgender and gender non-conforming people live with every day of their lives.

    One group of people is taking the fear out of swimming with the Transgender And Gender-Nonconforming Swimming group (TAGS).

    Read Mashable

    https://youtu.be/UfDlUqOfG2U

  • Jimmy Fallon pulled out the topical Olympics humor with an oddly placed Ryan Lochte impression during Sunday’s MTV Music Awards.

    Fallon took the stage donning Lochte’s chlorine-bleached hair and a faux silver medal and presented the award for Video of the Year.

    See Mashable

    Phelps was there

  • The second leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016, in Berlin, on August 30-31 – will be live streamed, free of charge on FINATv.

    The competition’s schedule unfolds as follows:

    Tuesday 30/08/2016 – Day 1
    Heats: 09:30, Finals: 17:00    		 Wednesday 31/08/2016 – Day 2
    Heats: 09:30, Finals: 17:00
    • 100m Freestyle Men
    • 200m Freestyle Women
    • 50m Breaststroke Men
    • 100m Breaststroke Women
    • 100m Butterfly Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 100m Backstroke Men
    • 50m Backstroke Women
    • 200m Butterfly Men
    • 200m IM Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 400m Freestyle Men
    • 50m Freestyle Women
    • 200m Breaststroke Men
    • 100m IM Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 200m Backstroke Women
    • 50 m Butterfly Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 4 x 50 m Medley Mixed**
    • 800m Freestyle Women*
    • 400m IM Men*
    Award Ceremonies    		 • 100m Freestyle Women
    • 200m Freestyle Men
    • 50m Breaststroke Women
    • 100m Breaststroke Men
    • 100m Butterfly Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 100m Backstroke Women
    • 50m Backstroke Men
    • 200m Butterfly Women
    • 200m IM Men
    Award Ceremonies
    • 400m Freestyle Women
    • 50m Freestyle Men
    • 200m Breaststroke Women
    • 100m IM Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 200m Backstroke Men
    • 50 m Butterfly Women
    Award Ceremonies
    • 4 x 50 m Freestyle Mixed**
    • 1500m Freestyle Men*
    • 400m IM Women*
    Award Ceremonies

    On the territories listed below, the competition will be broadcast via TV signal according to established contracts with the right holders. Therefore Live streaming might be restricted or not available in those territories:

    • Algeria
    • Angola
    • Anguilla
    • Antigua/Barbuda
    • Aruba
    • Australia
    • Bahamas
    • Barbados
    • Belarus
    • Benin
    • Bermuda
    • Botswana
    • Brazil
    • Brit.Virgin Is.
    • Brunei Daruss.
    • Burkina Faso
    • Burundi
    • Cameroon
    • Canada
    • Cape Verde
    • CAR
    • Cayman Islands
    • Chad
    • China
    • Comoros
    • Cote d’Ivoire
    • Cuba
    • Cyprus
    • Czech Republic
    • Dem. Rep. Congo
    • Djibouti
    • Dominica
    • Egypt
    • Equatorial Guin
    • Eritrea
    • Ethiopia
    • France
    • Frenc.Polynesia
    • French
    • Guayana
    • Gabon
    • Gambia
    • Ghana
    • Grenada
    • Guadeloupe
    • Guinea
    • Guinea-Bissau
    • Hong Kong
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Israel
    • Italy
    • Jamaica
    • Jordan
    • Kenya
    • Kuwait
    • Lebanon
    • Lesotho
    • Liberia
    • Libya
    • Madagascar
    • Malawi
    • Malaysia
    • Mali
    • Martinique
    • Mauretania
    • Mauritius
    • Mayotte
    • Monaco
    • Mongolia
    • Morocco
    • Mozambique
    • Namibia
    • Netherlands
    • New Caledonia
    • Niger
    • Nigeria
    • Oman
    • Qatar
    • Rep.of Congo
    • Reunion
    • Rwanda
    • S.Tome,Principe
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Senegal
    • Serbia
    • Seychelles
    • Sierra Leone
    • Somalia
    • South Africa
    • St Kitts&Nevis
    • St. Lucia
    • St. Vincent
    • St.Pier,Miquel.
    • Sudan
    • Swaziland
    • Syria
    • Taiwan
    • Tanzania
    • Thailand
    • Togo
    • Trinidad,Tobago
    • Tunisia
    • Uganda
    • USA
    • Utd.Arab Emir.
    • Wallis,Futuna
    • Yemen
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe

  • Kenya has disbanded its National Olympics Committee (NOC-K) because of the poor handling of the east African country’s team during the Rio Olympics, sports minister Hassan Wario said on Thursday.

    Wario has set up a committee to investigate the misconduct and will report its findings by September 30. The Directorate of Criminal Investigation has also been asked to begin a probe.

    “There was alleged mismanagement of the facilitation of our athletes and the entire team Kenya ranging from accommodation and travel mishaps, mishandling of the accreditation of the list of participants to the provision of kits that never reached the athletes,” Wario told a news conference.

    “I do hereby disband the National Olympic Committee with immediate effect and transfer their responsibilities to Sports Kenya as the interim custodian.”

    Read Mail & Guardian Africa

  • Not 1,000. Not 50. Not even 10.

    Zero.

    “There have so far been no laboratory confirmed cases of Zika virus in spectators, athletes or anyone associated with the Olympics,” the World Health Organization said Thursday on its website.

    Now, no cases doesn’t mean no one caught Zika at the Summer Games. About 80 percent of people who get infected don’t know it. They don’t have any symptoms. And those who do get sick often have only mild symptoms. So the vast majority of cases go unreported.

    But so far, it’s looking like predictions from computer models were pretty much spot on: Zika wasn’t a big threat in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics.

    Read NPR

    Photo by frankieleon

  • A man has died while trying to swim the English Channel.

    Nick Thomas set off from Dover on Saturday morning and had been swimming for about 16 hours when he got into difficulties, the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation said.

    He was pulled unconscious from the water on Sunday before being taken to hospital, where he died.

    Read BBC

    Photo by Tobias von der Haar

  • At the FINA 2016 World Cup leg in Paris-Chartres today, Russian swimmer Vladimir Morozov broke the 100 meter individual world record, with a time of 50.60 seconds, breaking Markus Deibler’s 50.66 record from Doha in 2014.

    Read for instance Swimming World, and see the video below

  • He will start wearing Speedo’s then, 24/7