Swimmer's Daily

  • Stanford’s Women’s Swim Team, had their suspicions about Brock Turner. The former Stanford swimmer, and convicted rapist, made suggestive comments to members of the women’s team. Ana Kasparian, Grace Baldridge, and Hasan Piker, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.

  • To raise awareness and honor families that have lost a loved one in service to our country, former Navy SEAL Chris Ring decided to swim the entire length of the Mississippi River. It took him 181 days to swim all 2,320 miles of the river, and in doing so he became the first American to accomplish the feat. Here’s how he did it.

  • Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova has called for an investigation into the Salt Lake City doping laboratory after she failed a drugs test for meldonium.

    It comes as the 24-year-old has been named in the Russian team for August’s Olympic Games despite an anti-doping hearing by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) having not yet delivered a verdict.

    Efimova, the 100 metres breaststroke champion at last year’s home World Championships in Kazan who has four world titles in all, has sent a letter to both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) calling for an investigation.

    “The incompetent and negligent persons who work in the laboratory disrupt [sic] the preparing of Yulia Efimova to the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 and jeopardized her appearance in Rio,” said the letter, written in conjunction with her agents Anna Mitkova and Andrey Mitkov.

    Read Inside the Games

  • An Iraqi refugee who raped a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Austria has been jailed for a minimum of six years.

    The 20-year-old man, who has not been named, had admitted rape and the aggravated sexual abuse of a minor at a court in Vienna.

    His attack in December last year sparked a backlash against migrants in the country, which has since seen support for anti-immigration groups rise and implemented a controversial cap on refugee numbers.

    Read Independent

  • This Toistories by Toi the Poetic Beauty video highlights the vicious rape of an unconscious woman, by Stanford College Swimmer, Brock Turner, where the judge felt that SIX MONTHS was more than enough time in jail for the privileged athlete. I call this, “The Privileged Swimmer”.

  • It is a sight few have seen. So Jordan Kirbyson did what any 21st-century man would.  He whipped out the camera gear he happened to have with him and started recording.

    “We see this object in the water,” said Kirbyson. “So I stand up and say, ‘Hey, there’s something in the water.’ Yeah, I thought maybe it could be a deer.”

    Kirbyson and a neighbor, Chris Quinlan, had just finished water skiing on Lake Whatcom Sunday morning; his dad was acting a spotter.

    “So I just flipped around and we slowly approached it,” said Quinlan.

    “And it wasn’t until we got closer,” said Kirbyson, “That we actually saw the cat’s ears.  And we’re like.  It’s a cougar. So it was pretty incredible.”

    See KIRO 7

    https://youtu.be/aSBpgNc1vhQ

  • Kayaker Nick Troutman shares a day of adventures with his son Tucker as they have a memorable day fishing and kayaking on the Ottawa River in Ontario.

  • Professional swimmer by day… computer engineer, DJ, aqua botanist and more by night. Tyler Clary is always on whether he’s training at the pool or working in his fully sustainable greenhouse. How does he manage it all during the most trying time in his training? BUILT WITH CHOCOCLATE MILK and USA Swimming provide a peek into Tyler’s training, post-workout recovery favorites, his interests outside the pool, and how each affects his intense training.

    https://youtu.be/IohQwfaXDpM

  • A short video of my first swim with The Shetland Selkies in Brei Wick, Lerwick. We had a swim out from the Sletts Pier to Hole Rock and back and had a brief visit from real life selkie (seal) near the end of the video.

    https://youtu.be/skLfAnJqASo