Swimmer's Daily

  • The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said it has started investigating allegations of doping by the Russian and Chinese swimming teams.

    At a conference on Monday, WADA President Craig Reedie said it has “started inquiries into the suggestion of doping” by Russian and Chinese swimmers in conjunction with FINA.

    Reedie noted “a wave of new troubling allegations” about doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, including the systemic manipulation of urine and blood samples.

    He said WADA fully backed the decision last week to ban Russia’s athletics team from international competition.

    Read The News Tribune

    https://youtu.be/kvrNCF0UkxY

  • In Easley, South Carolina two 3 year old twin boys fell into a backyard swimming pool and drowned. Emergency officials were called around 2:30 p.m. after the twins were discovered. According to a source, the second twin boy died shortly after the first.

    https://youtu.be/j9f5-reBGEo

  • Michael Phelps is onto a whole new chapter in his life. A little over a month after welcoming his first child , Boomer Phelps , into the world, the Olympic swimmer got more good news: he has officially completed his probation stemming from his 2014 DUI arrest . The Maryland Dept. of Public Safety and Correctional Services confirms to E! News that he finished his probation on Sunday. “He is free,” a spokesperson told us. “He followed the orders requested and is now free.”

    https://youtu.be/aO4cfa7yh08

  • A local swimmer who came close to making the U.S. Olympic Team in 2012 is giving it another shot.

  • Frenchman Arthur Guerin-Boeri recently competed in the 9th CMAS Apnea Indoor World Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy and set Freediving history with an amazing 300m / 984ft Dynamic Apnea swim.

    To put that in perspective that is six lengths of a 50m Olympic sized swimming pool – it can only be described as epic!

    Read interview here on DeeperBlue.com

  • This was a 2km mass participation swim taking part in Balatonfured, Hungary. It was on the same day and venue as the Fina 10k Marathon Swimming World Cup event.

    https://youtu.be/U_qQDeksX34

  • In December 2012, the World Anti-Doping Agency received an email from an Olympic athlete from Russia. She was asking for help.

    The athlete, a discus thrower named Darya Pishchalnikova, had won a silver medal four months earlier at the London Olympics. She said that she had taken banned drugs at the direction of Russian sports and antidoping authorities and that she had information on systematic doping in her country. Please investigate, she implored the agency in the email, which was written in English.

    “I want to cooperate with WADA,” the email said.

    But WADA, the global regulator of doping in Olympic sports, did not begin an inquiry, even though a staff lawyer circulated the message to three top officials, calling the accusations “relatively precise,” including names and facts. Instead, the agency did something that seemed antithetical to its mission to protect clean athletes. It sent Ms. Pishchalnikova’s email to Russian sports officials — the very people who she said were running the doping program.

    Read The New York Times

    Photo by Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious

  • From what happens to the body during a race to the attributes needed to be the perfect swimmer, Brazilian Open Water swimmer Poliana Okimoto discuss the sport science behind the event.

  • Swimmers across Britain will greet the longest day by plunging into a pool tomorrow. Many will take that summer solstice dip amid the splendour of a restored public lido or municipal baths as the national appetite for preserving historic leisure facilities grows.

    Last week, the Grade II*-listed Victoria Baths in Manchester, which has been closed since 1993, moved a stage nearer to opening for swimmers again. The city has just announced stage two of a lengthy restoration – with a planned commercial refurbishment of its lavish marble Turkish baths, designed by architect Henry Price and first enjoyed when the baths were completed in 1906.

    “It is a very good time for pool restoration,” says Historic Pools of Britain campaigner, Gill Wright, a swimming teacher and tireless evangelist for the sport. “We are still an aquatic mammal, I believe. We came out of the water and lots of us can’t wait to get back in again.”

    Read The Guardian

    Photo by stevecadman