Swimmer's Daily

  • American Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte said he had suicidal thoughts following the gas station scandal that arose during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

    On Tuesday, Allison Glock of ESPN passed along comments from Lochte, who explained his mindset after he became public enemy No. 1 for a short period of time.

    “After Rio, I was probably the most hated person in the world,” he said. “There were a couple of points where I was crying, thinking, ‘If I go to bed and never wake up, fine.’”

    Glock asked whether that meant he considered suicide, and Lochte nodded in the affirmative before adding, “I was about to hang up my entire life.”

    Read Bleacher Report

    https://youtu.be/61VSZw6U6oo

  • Axel Reymond – French Champion 2017 of the 25 km in open-water (FFN videos of 2017-06-04 at Gravelines)

  • Sign your child up for summer fun with swim lessons at the Y!

  • A 6-year-old girl is dead after an apparent drowning at the Lake Elmo Swimming Pond on Sunday, Jeff Wagner reports (2:20).

  • Based on a spoken word poem written by Ayo Akinwolere, At Sea is the story of one man’s relationship with the open water.

  • Back in 2003, Hall was lining up at swimming meets alongside Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington as part of British Swimming’s world-class potential programme.

    At 11, he was ranked No1 in all freestyle distances, 50m through to 1500m and before long his ever-increasing medal tally caught the eye of tough-talking Australian Bill Sweetenham, who coached Britain for seven years until 2007.

    “I thrived off winning, beating records and the attention. I was fascinated with human evolution and progress,” Hall says. “I was looking up to my hero Mark Foster and Olympic gold medallists, saying that I would one day be there.”

    However, Hall claims Sweetenham “meddled” with his freestyle technique. “From an enjoyable 14 hours per week, it ramped up to 20 hours and if you didn’t do it, you would be chucked off the squad,” he recalls.

    “There was so much pressure at a young age. It was Sweetenham who bullied the swimmers, coaches and ruined it for 90 per cent of the swimmers there. I hated it.

    “I genuinely believe that if he hadn’t come along I would be an Olympic gold medallist, I seriously do. I was that determined.”

    Sweetenham was later cleared of bullying allegations, although one report suggesting 13 Olympians retired because of his no-nonsense approach.

    Read Express

    https://youtu.be/6bfvgrsw7i4

  • Swimmers are being forced out of the River Cam after being “attacked” by parasitic mites that have spread rapidly in the water due to the warm weather.

    The parasitic duck mite appears in the River Cam at this time of year and can cause a condition known as ‘swimmer’s itch’ (or cercarial dermatitis).

    Newnham resident Terry Macalister said the situation was getting so bad, swimmers were being kept out of the water due to the ferocity of the bites.

    Mr Macalister said: “Keen river swimmers like myself are being forced to stay out of the water because of duck mites which are attacking us.

    “A friend said she had 200 bites after a swim last Saturday. I have also been forced to stop swimming temporarily due to bites which are like bad mosquito bites.

    Read Cambridge News

    Photo by subherwal

  • Sometimes the evening news reveals something that causes you to worry about that which you never worried before. Such may have been the case when news emerged recently of a huge uptick in the number of diarrhea outbreaks after people went swimming in a public pool and inadvertently swallowed the water. But that was just the beginning of their problem.

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)1 noted that when they sought medical attention, the diarrhea sufferers learned the pool water they ingested contained parasites and that the parasites, known as cryptosporidium, or crypto, now resided in them.

    Can it get worse? Well, yes: The diarrhea outbreaks have doubled in just a few years, as there were at least 32 known outbreaks due to crypto contamination in pools or water parks in 2016, while there were only 16 cases in 2014, the CDC reported. That’s not 32 people infected; that’s 32 outbreaks that affected multiple individuals. Reuters added:

    “Arizona last year reported that 352 people became sick with Cryptosporidiosis from July through October, compared with no more than 62 cases per year from 2011 to 2015. Ohio reported 1,940 infections in 2016, compared with no more than 571 in any one year from 2012 to 2015.”

    Read Mercola