Swimmer's Daily

  • Freaking out about your trip to Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games? Then check out these tips from a native from the city of the dos and don’ts, and how to act like a local “carioca”.

  • A leaked internal report from the German city of Düsseldorf has lain bare the rapidly developing child sex crisis in swimming pools, for which so-called ‘refugees’ are often identified as the culprits.

    The document, distributed among specialist officers dealing with sex crimes and confirmed to Germany’s Bild newspaper as genuine expresses concern “that sexual offences are recording a huge increase.

    “In particular, offences of rape and sexual abuse of children in bathing establishments is significant”.

    The document goes on to acknowledge that, despite protests by pro-migrant advocacygroups who have protested vocally against swimming baths closing their doors to ‘refugees’ to protect their regular customers, that “the perpetrators are for the most part immigrants”.

    The police admitted catching these criminals because the victims often found it difficult to identify their attackers.

    Germany’s Welt reports the remarks of Berthold Schmitt, who manages some 6,000 indoor, outdoor, and school swimming pools across Germany on the migrant sex wave. Remarking on the reasons, as he perceived them for these attacks he said: “The ‘new citizens’, as we call them, have three main problems. They do not speak German, they have no knowledge of German or European bathing culture, and few are powerful swimmers”.

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  • One in five Swedish children can’t swim. Which, in a land full of lakes and surrounded by sea, is one in five too many. So E.ON and the Swedish Swimming Federation have launched a VR-initiative to give kids the confidence they need to get into the water. Called The Power of Swimming, it’s a small but significant step towards a swim-savvy Sweden.

    The project is aimed at young non-swimmers who need a little encouragement to take the plunge. The initiative aims to inspire young people to swim and to raise water-confidence all over the country this summer.

    Watch the emotional film about the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmoakreZRB0

    Experience the VR movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVOPPabC1M

    Better still, order your own swim VR goggles: https://www.eon.se/simma

  • NOTICE. Live Streaming is running also from the prelims !

    http://dai.ly/x4j1ow0

    See ejsc2016.hu and LEN

    The European Championship will be held from next Wednesday to next Sunday in the Gyarmati Dezső Sport Stadium. The heats will start at 9.30 a.m. whereas the finals will start at 17.30, the M4 Sport Channel is going to broadcast the finals live every day.

    Start Lists etc
    Live Timing

  • UMass swimmer Owen Wright has success in the pool while dealing with cystic fibrosis.

  • Introducing the Mauritian swimmer Bradley Vincent.

  • Sharkbanz deploys a small electrical field that deters sharks without harming them.

  • EPIC slo-mo video from Ocean Lava Montenegro 2016. 1.9k swimming in one of the most beautiful bay in the world, Boka bay.

  • Exercise boosts kids’ and young people’s brain power and academic prowess, says a consensus statement on physical activity in schools and during leisure time, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

    Time taken away from lessons for physical activity is time well spent and does not come at the cost of getting good grades, say the 24 signatories to the statement.

    The Statement, which distils the best available evidence on the impact of physical activity on children and young people, was drawn up by a panel of international experts with a wide range of specialisms, from the UK, Scandinavia, and North America, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April of this year.

    It includes 21 separate statements on the four themes of fitness and health; intellectual performance; engagement, motivation and wellbeing; and social inclusion, and spans structured and unstructured forms of physical activity for 6 to 18 year olds in school and during leisure time.

    It says that:

    • Physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness are good for children’s and young people’s brain development and function as well as their intellect
    • A session of physical activity before, during, and after school boosts academic prowess
    • A single session of moderately energetic physical activity has immediate positive effects on brain function, intellect, and academic performance
    • Mastery of basic movement boosts brain power and academic performance
    • Time taken away from lessons in favour of physical activity does not come at the cost of getting good grades

    Read more here on Science 2.0