Swimmer's Daily

  • The sporting world’s highest tribunal has rejected Russia’s appeal against a doping ban for its entire athletics team from the Rio Olympics starting in 15 days’ time. Nathan Frandino reports.

    https://youtu.be/jx35ssRakJ4

  • The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that reanalysis of the second wave of samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 has resulted in provisional adverse analytical findings (PAAFs) of 30 athletes from Beijing and adverse analytical findings (AAFs) of 15 athletes from London.

    The latest results bring the total number of athletes who tested positive for prohibited substances from the first and second waves of reanalysis to 98. The third and fourth waves are expected to continue throughout and after the Olympic Games Rio 2016.

    The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the IOC, as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. To provide a level playing field for all clean athletes at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the IOC has put special measures in place such as targeted pre-tests of identified sports and countries. Using the very latest scientific analysis methods, the reanalysis of stored samples from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012 followed an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015 and included the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and International Federations (IFs).

    “The new reanalysis once again shows the commitment of the IOC in the fight against doping,” IOC President Thomas Bach said.

    The second wave of the Beijing 2008 retests focused mainly on medallists, as will subsequent testing. Of the 30 latest PAAFs from Beijing 2008, 23 were medallists. The 30 athletes were from four sports and eight National Olympic Committees (NOCs). The 15 athletes with AAFs from London 2012 represented two sports and 9 NOCs.

    In total, 1,243 doping samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were selected to be reanalysed in wave one and wave two.

    The athletes, NOCs and IFs concerned are being informed, after which the proceedings against the athletes can begin. All athletes found to have infringed the anti-doping rules will be banned from competing at the Olympic Games Rio 2016.

    Read Olympic.org

    Photo by Kris Krug

  • We have a cherished tradition at the show. Every year we set up an above-ground swimming pool, pull a group of confused pedestrians off the street, put them in bathing suits and make them compete in a belly flop contest. This year’s celebrity judges include Olympian Lolo Jones, TV/fashion personality EJ Johnson and our own Aunt Chippy.

  • This gorgeous video was captured by Le Cut Studio with a DJI Phantom 4 flying high above Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. It shows a lone seal swimming (fishing, really) through a massive school of fish just below the surface of the water.

    See PetaPixel

    https://youtu.be/0-7F_fqTT-s

  • Everything you need to know about Olympic Diving.

    When diving made its Olympic debut at St Louis 1904, athletes aimed for the longest jump. Now their spectacular aerial acrobatics are judged to the minutest detail. Men and Women compete in four events, individually or in duos, from 10m and 3m.

    Watch more Diving: http://bit.ly/2afcgIt

  • Earlier this month, a group of Brazilian scientists detected a drug-resistant super bacteria in the waters off of the Rio de Janeiro beaches where 2016 Olympic swimming events will be held.

    This finding came on the heels of an investigation by the Associated Press that found “dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage” in Olympic and Paralympic venues.

    As various athletes have withdrawn from the Games over concerns about the Zika virus, a famed distance swimmer is warning athletes headed to Rio to compete in water sports to consider the risks they’ll face in the highly polluted waters.

    “The truth is that all of the water in all of the venues is severely polluted,” long-distance swimmer and author of Swimming in the Sink, Lynne Cox tells PEOPLE. “There is raw sewage from millions of people who flush their toilets into the Guanabara Bay each day.”

    Cox says she began following the issue after reading about two open-water swimmers who became seriously ill after swimming in the waters off of Rio during the 2007 Pan American Games.

    “These two swimmers got infections that affected the rest of their lives in huge ways,” Cox says.

    Within a few months of this race, swimmer Chip Peterson was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, according to ESPN. The disease is believed to be influenced by both environmental and genetic factors, so Peterson, who ultimately had to have his colon removed as a result of the disease, couldn’t say for sure the polluted waters had triggered it.

    Then, Peterson’s teammate in the 2007 race, Kalyn Keller Robinson was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a related condition, and soon retired from swimming all together.

    “When I saw what was happening in Rio, I felt I needed to say something because it’s really wrong to have the best athletes in the world having to compete in sewage I mean it just makes no sense at all,” Cox says.

  • It’s hard to describe just how good a swimmer 19-year-old Katie Ledecky is without it sounding hyperbolic.

    Last summer, Outside magazine described her as “the best athlete in the world right now.” This spring, the Washington Post tried to explain “how Katie Ledecky became better at swimming than anyone is at anything.”

    The thing is, it’s hard to dispute them.

    “She is the real deal,” says Dr. Michael Joyner, a physician and Mayo Clinic researcher who is one of the world’s top experts on fitness and human performance.

    “She’s among the greatest endurance athletes ever, full stop,” he tells Tech Insider.

    Read Tech Insider

  • Play as a fragile creature struggling to survive the silent and deadly world of the abyss.

    Search and hunt light sources to prevent your glow from fading out.

    Explore the depths freely and survive as long as you can in this oppressive underworld.

    See seashinegame.com

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