Swimmer's Daily

  • Hotel Terme Millepini, a 100-room four-star hotel in Padua, Italy, is recognized for having the world’s deepest swimming pool, the Y-40, which put it in the Guinness World Records.

    The swimming pool is built over thermal sources bringing after cooling down a water at 32-34 degrees Celsius.

    Y-40, with its depth of 42mt, is officially awarded the “Deepest Swimming Pool for Diving” by the Guinness World Records.

    Designed by architect Emanuele Boaretto, Y-40 “The Deep Joy” pool first opened on 5 June 2014. It’s 40 metres (131 ft) deep, making it the deepest pool in the world and contains 4,300 cubic metres (1,136,000 US gal) of thermal water kept at a temperature of 32–34 °C (90–93 °F).

    Underwater caves, a suspended, transparent, underwater tunnel for guests to walk through are some of the striking features of the pool.

    Read mid-day

  • Winning the Olympic gold medal in a world-record time of 58.46 seconds had been the greatest high in Cameron van der Burgh’s illustrious swimming career.

    Reaching the pinnacle of his sport had been the result of years of hard work winning South Africa’s first medal of the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

    Van der Burgh found the ascension from cloud nine hard to deal with as he suffered a bit of post-Olympic depression.

    This was evident in his swimming, and one could sense the passion he had once exuded had been drained in the two years following the Games.

    Despite the reduced enthusiasm, Van der Burgh still won the 50m breaststroke gold medal and finishing second in the 100m event at the 2013 Fina World Championships.

    A niggling shoulder injury compounded his woes in 2014 which also see the emergence of Van der Burgh’s bête noire.

    It was the year British teenager Adam Peaty would rise to prominence sparking one of the great swimming rivalries of the last few years.

    Read IOL

  • Brazil is in crisis. The economy has sunk into its biggest slump in a century and political instability surrounding President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment is paralyzing the country. Bloomberg QuickTakes explains how it’s been a slow unraveling for the world’s fifth largest country. 

  • Russia’s sports ministry has confirmed that the International Association of Athletics Federations has barred Russia’s track-and-field federation from competing at the Olympics in Brazil this summer.

  • Lonely Water is perhaps the best known and almost forgets itself in the hurry to warn children against playing in public waterways and turns into one of the classics of 1970’s British horror. Lonely Water was produced by Illustra Films and directed by Jeff Grant, having been commissioned by the COI as a result of official concern over the high number of child fatalities in drowning accidents in the UK. Lonely Water was filmed over two days a few miles north of London. Over a dream-like, mist filled 90 seconds on watery wasteland, a grim reaper voiced by the horror legend Donald Pleasence, warns children of the dangers of the murky depths. The Bergman-esque cowled Death ominously stalks the children (“I am the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, ready to trap the unwary, the show-off, the fool, and this is the kind of place you’d expect to find me”). Like many of the PIF’s of this period, the silence is often deafening and lends true reality to the rather Grimm’s fairytale set-up. Donald is rumbled, Dracula-like by clever youngsters (“Sensible children! I have no power over them!”) though the threat is a real one and morphs into a sinister promise ((“I’ll be back-back-back…!”)

    See horrorpedia.com

    “Only a fool would ignore this. But there is one born every minute”

  • If life had panned out slightly differently, Henrik Christiansen could have been starring on the stage rather than preparing to visit Rio for his first Olympic games.

    “I did a lot of theatre when I was younger, while I was working out exactly what I was best at, and really enjoyed it,” says the 19-year-old Norwegian swimmer. “I had a great time putting on plays, but I eventually I had to choose that or swimming, and it was a tough decision at the time.”

    Fortunately, Henrik has no cause to regret his choice. Five years after focusing his attentions on the pool, he served notice of his enormous potential by winning bronze medals in the 400m freestyle and 800m freestyle at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Nanjing. He has gone from strength to strength since and, with Rio just around the corner, cannot wait to test himself at the highest level.

    Read olympic.org

    https://youtu.be/Xfw-7hKnLZU

    (Unrelated video in Norwegian. You just have to guess what on Earth is happening there)

  • The third leg of the FINA/HOSA Marathon Swimming World Cup – in Balatonfured (HUN) – on June 18 – will be live streamed worldwide, free of charge, on FINA YOUTUBE.

    Saturday 18/06/2016

    Men’s race at 09:30 (GMT+2) : LINK
    Women’s race at 09:40 (GMT+2): LINK

     

  • On 2nd April 2016, more than a hundred people over 55 years enjoyed the Life Long Swimming – H2OpenDay in the municipal swimming pool Parquesol of Valladolid.
    The event, which promotes the benefits of swimming for healthy ageing was organized by the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation with the support of the city of Valladolid.

    Visit Lifelong Swimming

  • These are very serious allegations and we urge anyone with relevant evidence to bring it forward to FINA so that we can share with all appropriate authorities and take immediate disciplinary action if required.

    FINA is monitoring all developments in the world’s fight against cheating and doping in sport and is taking decisive action to protect the majority of our athletes who are clean.

    See fina.org

    In other news …

    http://www.swimvortex.com/russian-anti-doping-bosses-offered-to-remove-swimmers-from-testing-pool/

    https://youtu.be/H7gmxyrf3Vw