Swimmer's Daily

  • A trip back to Baltimore to see a young Michael Phelps reveal his brutal training regime shows why the swimming legend won 23 Olympic gold medals and became the greatest swimmer of all time.

  • A young boy has been flown by helicopter to the Royal Children’s Hospital after being pulled from a pool during school swimming lessons.

    The child, believed to be six years old, is in a serious but stable condition after he was dragged from the water in Victoria’s east.

    Paramedics were called to the Swifts Creek School pool on the Great Alpine Road about 1pm.

    The child was with his classmates having swimming lessons during the first week of the school year when the incident happened.

    It is understood the class was from a nearby primary school, which uses the pool at Swifts Creek School.

    Teachers, parents and bush nurses treated the boy before paramedics arrived.

    Read The Age

  • Denmark will be the host of this year LEN European Short Course Championships 2017 in the newly opened Royal Arena, Copenhagen. It will be the first sports event in Royal Arena and will take place from 13th until 17th December 2017.

  • Video showcases many stars from the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Wöhrsee, see The Daily News of Open Water Swimming

  • Wen Xu, a senior on the Drury University swimming team, died Thursday after collapsing at practice.

    According to a statement released by the university, Wen experienced a medical emergency in practice Thursday afternoon, and paramedics were called to Breech Pool.

    Wen was taken to Mercy Hospital and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

    Read News-Leader

    https://youtu.be/4z_Qnmc_IJI

  • A ten meter diving tower. People who have never been up there before have to choose whether to jump or climb down. The situation itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out against the humiliation of having to climb down.

    See Maximilien Van Aertryck and The New York Times

  • A great white shark was apparently ready for its close up when it photo bombed a 10-year-old Australian boy catching some waves. Chris Hasson says after showing the photo to experts, they determined it was a juvenile great white shark about 8 feet long. His son, Eden says he’s glad he didn’t notice it while he was out on the water. No one was hurt and even though it gave everyone a scare, now that it’s all over Chris and Eden think it’s actually kind of cool.

  • Ippei Watanabe – who smashed the 200-meter breaststroke world record in Tokyo on Jan. 29 – has revealed that improved lower body strength was a key factor behind breaking the world record.

    The 19-year-old swimmer, who managed to chalk up an unprecedented time of 2 minutes and 6.67 seconds during the Kosuke Kitajima Cup at Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Tokyo, decided to work on his lower body strength following the 2016 Rio Olympics.

    Read The Mainichi

  • Six days a week, at 5:30 in the morning, you’ll find 75-year-old DeEtte Sauer swimming a total of 120 laps at a Houston aquatic center.

    Sauer admits that when she first started swimming, she felt like a fish out of water.

    “It was horrible, I quit in the middle of the first lap,” she said. “And I was swimming with my head out of the water so my hair wouldn’t get wet.”

    In her 40s, Sauer was considered obese, tipping the scale at 250 pounds. She was ashamed when she couldn’t fit into a small boat on a family vacation and decided to do something about her health.

    Sauer changed her diet and started exercising. It wasn’t easy, but she managed to lose 100 pounds in less than a year.

    See CBS Evening News