Swimmer's Daily

  • You have to hear about his babies swimming lessons!

  • World Championship gold medallist and Australia’s backstroke queen Emily Seebohm has today been nominated for one of the most prestigious sporting awards, ‘The Don Award’, presented by the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

    The Award is widely regarded as Australia’s leading contemporary sporting award and named in honour of Australian sporting Legend and our inaugural Sport Australia Hall of Fame Inductee, the late Sir Donald Bradman AC.

    ‘The Don’ is awarded annually to the athlete or team who; through their performance and example over the past 12 months (September 2016-August 2017) has most inspired the nation.

    Read Swimming Australia

  • Sam challenged 4 time Olympic medallist swimmer Rebecca Adlington to a swimming race!

    https://youtu.be/iK-LDSalrEA

  • “I did it as a joke”

  • Locals in Quezon City were forced to swim through flooded streets after Tropical Depression Maring hit Philippines’ Luzon island, leaving many areas waterlogged.

    This footage shows West Riverside, a street in the San Antonio barangay (neighborhood) of Quezon City that was flooded with nearly three feet of water, judging from a scrawled marker written on a wall.

    Elsewhere in the city, Rappler reported that water had reached the roofs of houses in the Roxas District. In the greater Luzon region, several households were forced to evacuate, and at least three people – two minors and an infant – died in the flooding, according to CNN Philippines

  • In a statement following the first morning IOC Executive Board here, they said they had taken “immediate action” regarding possible corruption in the election process.

    Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman was taken into custody last Tuesday (September 5) under suspicion of involvement in a vote-buying scheme in the Brazilian city’s successful bid for the event.

    The Brazilian has not been charged with anything but is suspected by prosecutors of being the main link between Arthur Cesar de Menezes Soares Filho, a businessman nicknamed “King Arthur”, and Diack, the Senegalese who was President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) between 1999 and 2015.

    “The IOC Executive Board reaffirmed today that it goes without saying that infringements from the past will also be addressed,” the statement read.

    “With regard to the investigation around the former IAAF President, Lamine Diack, and his son, Papa Massata Diack, the French prosecutor has stated that there are indications that payments have been made in return for votes over the designation of host cities for the biggest global sporting events.”

    Read Inside the Games

    In other news, Diack calls this ‘the biggest lie in the history of world sport’:

    “This accusation is the biggest lie in the history of world sport,” Diack said in Senegal on Friday. He blamed the accusations on a smear campaign to tarnish his father’s reputation.

    “Sometimes I accompanied my father to assist in his personal work but to say I organised votes … my job was to help the IAAF identify countries to organise sporting events,” he said.

    Read The Guardian

    PAPE MASSATA DIACK, l'entretien vérité

  • A British man has become the first-ever person to complete the 660-foot swim across the Hoover Dam, albeit illegally.

    Arron Hughes, 28, was on a stag-do with a group of friends in Las Vegas and has been fined by police for swimming across the iconic stretch of water on the border of Arizona and Nevada.

    The forklift driver from the north of Wales said that his decision was heavily alcohol-influenced and that he only survived the swim because nine of the ten hydroelectric turbines were switched off at the time.

    Read The Telegraph

    Photo by Airwolfhound

  • Sam Hutchinson, 18, of School Green Road, Freshwater, began freediving about six months ago, inspired by videos he had seen online.

    Freediving is when you do not use any breathing apparatus.

    Sam can hold his breath for two minutes and said he was building this up by training his body to function with higher levels of carbon dioxide.

    Professional freedivers can hold their breath underwater for up to 20 minutes.

    Read Isle of Wight County Press

  • Having won Gold at every ASEAN Para Games since its inaugural edition, our TeamSG Swimmer Theresa Goh has gone full circle to return to the place where it all started for her!