Swimmer's Daily

  • Starts: October 8, 2016

    Watch live on the FINA YouTube Channel: Day 1 of the sixth event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Doha (QAT).

  • After four very successful years in Danish swimming, Nick Juba will end his tenure as National Head Coach when his contract with the Danish Swimming Federation expires at the end of the year. The World Short-Course will therefore be the Brit’s last Championships in charge of the Danish National Team.

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    The period from 2013 to 2016 has featured an impressive array of successful international results for Danish swimming sport. Denmark has won 26 medals, and secured 46 4th to 8th positions at the major long-course Championships [the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the European Championships], performing at a historically high level in both a continental and a global perspective. Throughout this period Nick Juba has led the team as National Head Coach and he has been a significant factor behind the achievement of these amazing results. The Rio Olympic results, Denmark’s best performance in 68 years, was the pinnacle of his achievement.

    National Head Coach Nick Juba says:

    – I have been delighted to both lead and contribute to Denmark’s success over the past four years. I have been lucky to work with some great people, and of course, I shall miss them, says Nick Juba and continues:

    – But I was brought over here with Rio specifically in mind and now it is over. With a new Olympic cycle just starting, now is an opportune time to pass the reigns over to a brand new team who I believe can further advance Danish swimming. I am looking forward to a fresh challenge, a new adventure!

    Lars Green Bach, the High Performance Manager for the Danish Swimming Federation, expresses his appreciation of the great work that Nick Juba has done for Danish swimming in recent years.

    – Whilst Nick Juba has been in charge of Denmark, we have achieved remarkable international results for a swimming nation of Denmark’s size. It’s very much to Nick’s credit, and as I see it, he has had great success unleashing the international potential there was in the strong foundation that he took over in 2013, says the Danish Swimming Federation’s High Performance Manager and continues.

    – With his strong knowledge of human nature, his straightforward manner and his English humour, Nick has inspired swimmers and coaches and succeeded in gelling all of the different, aspects of Danish high performance swimming. We are going to miss having Nick in our team in the Sports Department.

    In connection with the Danish Championships in short course in Esbjerg in November, there will be an official occasion, together with the Danish Swimming Federation, to wish Nick Juba all the best og further success for the future.

    National Coach Dean Boles, who has worked with coaches and Danish senior swimmers since last June will take over the responsibility for the Danish Senior National team from January 1st in line with Danish Swimming’s new sporting strategy and action plan ‘From Proud Results to New Common Ambitions.’

    In near future The Danish Swimming Federation will furthermore announce the name of the future Head Coach at the national training center / NTC in Copenhagen.

    Press release from the Danish Swimming Federation

  • Graham Hill, mentor to Chad le Clos and generations of South African national teamsters before him, is rolling out a series of videos that warn his country that it has to make changes in its approach to sport to avoid its talent draining away.

    The coach is speaking in the wake of parting company with Le Clos after 14 years. In the first of two videos (watch them below) under the project title “The Hill”, he throws the debate out beyond the pool when he notes: “At the moment, I think we’ve fallen behind the rest of the world (leading swim nations). Our sports are slipping, our rankings are going down, our rugby, our football, our cricket, and now swimming: we’re not able to get our women up to the standards of the rest of the world. We’re going to lose our swimmers to the U.S. again.”

    He concludes part two more in sadness than anger, the resolve and suggestions to come, perhaps when the series rolls on:

    “The greatest swimming Olympian (from South Africa)” had come out of that environment “but now he’s gone and we need to take that responsibility to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”

    Read SwimVortex

  • Starts: October 5, 2016

    Watch live on the FINA YouTube Channel: Day 2 of the fifth event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Dubai (UAE).

  • British triathlete Alistair Brownlee, Australian swimmer Emily Seebohm and New Zealand rower Mahé Drysdale are among another 20 athletes whose leaked data has been revealed by Russian group Fancy Bears’ after the cyber-attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

    Read Inside the Games

  • Starts: October 4, 2016

    Watch live on the FINA YouTube Channel: Day 1 of the fifth event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Dubai (UAE).

  • For a swimmer struggling to stay above the water’s surface, even a low-flying robot may offer some glimmer of hope. Even better is if that drone carries a self-inflating flotation device, keeping the swimmer afloat in time for lifeguards to drag them back to the shore. That’s the goal behind Microdrones’ demonstration with the German Lifeguard Association.

    After alerting a lifeguard to swim out, the drone is piloted to the struggling swimmer.

    Once overhead, it drops the “RESTUBE,” a rapidly self-inflating flotation device.

    According to a release from Microdrones:

    “One of the greatest obstacles to rescuing a drowning swimmer is that they panic and we often can’t reach them in time,” said Robert Rink from the DLRG Horneburg/Altes Land e.V. [German Lifeguard Association] “After seeing what I saw here today, I have no doubt that drones will play a significant role in the near future of water rescue – and that we’ll see less fatalities as a result.”

    The demonstration took place this summer, with the video released last week. Microdrones and RESTUBE join a growing family of rescue robots, including the Iranian-designed and the London-made Pars drone, as well as crowdfunded project Ryptide. Swimming robot lifeguards, like the self-propelled EMILY life preserver, also exist. In the future, drones could become a common sight along beaches, as routine as life preservers and suntan lotion.

    Read Popular Science

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  • Starts: October 1, 2016

    Watch live on the FINA YouTube Channel: Day 1 of the fourth event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Beijing (China).

  • Ellen debuted her newest segment, in which her executive producer Andy learns new skills from the world’s most talented people. This time, Andy joins Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps in the pool!