Swimmer's Daily

  • Swimmers in Germany and the Czech Republic are celebrating the holiday season with a dip in the ice-cold water.

  • Mike Mejia breaks down some options for training during the busy holiday season in the Winter 2017-18 issue of Splash. Here, he demonstrates some of those exercises.

    Splash Digital: Hybrid Dryland Exercises for Competitive Swimmers

  • Inside TYR New York HQ!!

  • Swim Ireland 2017 Highlights

  • More than 500 winter swimmers from around the world gathered at a competition in Jiagedaqi District in the Greater Khingan Mountainous Area of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province from Monday to Tuesday.

  • We have spent at least two minutes heavily researching the most popular questions that swimmers always get asked by non-swimmers.

    We have managed to pick five of our favourite questions that people has asked over the years, and you guess it we are going to answer them once and for all!

    So without further or do here’s our ‘ why do swimmers do that’ video.

  • A 7-year-old boy who went missing from his Mililani home on Christmas Eve was found dead in a swimming pool the next day, authorities said.

    Police on Monday morning recovered the body of Paul “Kevin” Rozier from a pool at an unoccupied house, which was a short distance away from his family’s home.

    Authorities said no foul play is suspected and an autopsy will be conducted.

    Read Seattle Times

    Photo by ishaip

  • Hue Jackson won’t backpedal on the backstroke.

    He vowed Wednesday to make good on his promise to swim in Lake Erie if the Browns went 1-15 again, and they’re 0-15 heading into Sunday’s season finale in Pittsburgh.

    “So how many people are jumping in the lake with me?” he said at the start of his press conference Wednesday. “Obviously I’ve got to get wet. I get it. I can pick a day and get everyone out there, we’ll all be in swimsuits and trunks and snorkels and all that.”

    For real?

    “Heck, yeah. I got to,” he said.

    Read Cleveland.com

  • While the jury is still out on the extent to which facial recognition technology will be used globally years from now, many tech firms are continuing to push ahead with its development, with big players like Apple going so far as to incorporate it into its flagship iPhone X handset.

    Now the organizing committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics is taking notice of the technology, and wants to use it on a huge scale at the global sporting extravaganza, sources told the Japan Times recently.

    Developed by NEC Corp., the committee said the system would aid security by eliminating the problem of forged or stolen ID cards, and also speed up the flow of athletes, officials, and media personnel entering the venues. It’s estimated the system will manage up to 400,000 people, marking the biggest ever deployment of facial recognition technology at an Olympic Games.

    Read Digital Trends

    https://youtu.be/eBZKGgc_n_c