Swimmer's Daily

  • Lee Lin Chin is known for her quirky style and sense of humour and now she’s roped swimming champion Ian Thorpe into the mix as the two star in a hilarious new ad for the Rio Olympics.

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    https://youtu.be/8ytqr7ojFq8

  • In August, the world’s gaze will fall on Rio de Janeiro for the start of the 2016 Olympics. But a very different kind of games were just held at the 12th annual Chap Olympiad, in the Bloomsbury district of London. Hundreds gathered to celebrate British eccentricity. And show an undying love of tweed and tea.

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  • This is a video of David Salmon riding a private waterslide at a residence in Austin, Texas when he flies out of the slide and 10 feet down to rocks below. Pfft, and I thought you were a Salmon — you should have just swam back up the slide! David had to go to the hospital with a broken arm and several ribs, but is otherwise fine except for his incredible fear of waterslides.

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    https://youtu.be/a4YkcEMiUHM

  • The sporting world’s highest tribunal has rejected Russia’s appeal against a doping ban for its entire athletics team from the Rio Olympics starting in 15 days’ time. Nathan Frandino reports.

    https://youtu.be/jx35ssRakJ4

  • The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that reanalysis of the second wave of samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 has resulted in provisional adverse analytical findings (PAAFs) of 30 athletes from Beijing and adverse analytical findings (AAFs) of 15 athletes from London.

    The latest results bring the total number of athletes who tested positive for prohibited substances from the first and second waves of reanalysis to 98. The third and fourth waves are expected to continue throughout and after the Olympic Games Rio 2016.

    The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the IOC, as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. To provide a level playing field for all clean athletes at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the IOC has put special measures in place such as targeted pre-tests of identified sports and countries. Using the very latest scientific analysis methods, the reanalysis of stored samples from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012 followed an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015 and included the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and International Federations (IFs).

    “The new reanalysis once again shows the commitment of the IOC in the fight against doping,” IOC President Thomas Bach said.

    The second wave of the Beijing 2008 retests focused mainly on medallists, as will subsequent testing. Of the 30 latest PAAFs from Beijing 2008, 23 were medallists. The 30 athletes were from four sports and eight National Olympic Committees (NOCs). The 15 athletes with AAFs from London 2012 represented two sports and 9 NOCs.

    In total, 1,243 doping samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were selected to be reanalysed in wave one and wave two.

    The athletes, NOCs and IFs concerned are being informed, after which the proceedings against the athletes can begin. All athletes found to have infringed the anti-doping rules will be banned from competing at the Olympic Games Rio 2016.

    Read Olympic.org

    Photo by Kris Krug

  • We have a cherished tradition at the show. Every year we set up an above-ground swimming pool, pull a group of confused pedestrians off the street, put them in bathing suits and make them compete in a belly flop contest. This year’s celebrity judges include Olympian Lolo Jones, TV/fashion personality EJ Johnson and our own Aunt Chippy.

  • This gorgeous video was captured by Le Cut Studio with a DJI Phantom 4 flying high above Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. It shows a lone seal swimming (fishing, really) through a massive school of fish just below the surface of the water.

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    https://youtu.be/0-7F_fqTT-s

  • Everything you need to know about Olympic Diving.

    When diving made its Olympic debut at St Louis 1904, athletes aimed for the longest jump. Now their spectacular aerial acrobatics are judged to the minutest detail. Men and Women compete in four events, individually or in duos, from 10m and 3m.

    Watch more Diving: http://bit.ly/2afcgIt