Swimmer's Daily

  • Pittsburgh’s Action News 4’s David Kaplan spoke with the owner and the manager of the Olympic Swim Club in Penn Hills where three party attendees were shot by unknown gunman on Monday evening.

  • A young man trying out for a lifeguard position died while taking part in swimming trials at Pilgrim Lake this morning, Orleans Fire Department officials said.

    The man slipped beneath the surface at 8:49 a.m. and was found unconscious by an Orleans Fire Department diver in 10 to 15 feet of water about half an hour later, Orleans Deputy Fire Chief Geof Deering said.

    Read Cape Cod Times

    https://youtu.be/AeimbhdGKXk

  • Thousands of swimmers from all over China challenged themselves to swim across the Yellow River on Sunday as one of the eight thematic activities of the 22nd Sanmenxia Yellow River cultural tourism festival.

  • Speedo is pioneering a global swim movement for its latest campaign ‘Speedo Fit’, hoping to bring swimming into fitness routines around the world in its first TV campaign in over a decade.

    The campaign has launched in over 50 markets globally. It is aimed specifically at the fitness enthusiast market, to encourage people to challenge the regime, with the brand message: ‘The most powerful thing you can do to your routine is to change it’.

    The campaign ‘There’s fit and there’s Speedo fit’ features and champions other sports, to demonstrate how swimming can complement and improve fitness and training. It challenges people to question their current fitness regime and bring swimming into it, by advocating how sports can work together.

    Speedo courted ad agency iris, which recently launched the Team Speedo ‘Winning Elements’ campaign, to elevate the reputation of the sport.

    See The Drum

    https://youtu.be/FsnL0wktY2Y

  • Music has been submerged to a new level: An entire show is being performed underwater at the Operadagen festival in Rotterdam. The band ‘Between Music’ used specially designed instruments and a vocal technique created to allow underwater singing.

    The five members of Danish Band ‘Between Music’ performed their show titled ‘AquaSonic’ in specially designed tanks onstage, each containing purpose built instruments and microphones for creating underwater music.

    Singer Laila Skovmand became obsessed with the idea after she developed a technique, in which she sings while not letting air bubbles leave her mouth.

    See RT

    https://youtu.be/tvp2eInxN54

  • Swimmers are crazy! Check out this weird “relay” by swimmers from the German club SG EWR Rheinhessen Mainz!

    https://youtu.be/3JYz37YInLM

  • While trying to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad swims right into a swarm of deadly jellyfish.

  • Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky better known as Katie Ledecky had her Olympic debut in 2012 when she was only 15 years old. Since then she has won 15 gold medals and broke 11 world records and is clearly one of the favourites for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio.

  • At the age of 15, RÅ«ta MeilutytÄ— became an Olympic champion after she won the Women’s 100m Breaststroke final at London 2012.