Swimmer's Daily

  • The “Damn Daniel” video has completely taken over the Internet this week, making its star Daniel Lara a viral sensation. Lara even appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with the video’s co-creator Josh Holz and was gifted a lifetime supply of Vans. But, it looks like the California high schooler isn’t taking advantage of every opportunity coming his way thanks to his newfound fame. A friend of his told Hollywood Life that Lara has turned down an offer from a modeling agency, so that he can pursue his college swimming scholarship. He goes on to say that the teen has remained incredibly modest, despite the video being shared over 400,000 times.

    https://youtu.be/BA04YI5tL2Q

    https://youtu.be/wfN60IxdbB4

  • Mitch Larkin had as good of a year as any swimmer in 2015 winning double gold at the World Championships and breaking the short course world record in the 200 backstroke.

  • https://youtu.be/Z1hd9m79Ts4

  • Perhaps this is why I am so driven color and push on the way that I do. I’ve been swimming my whole life. I was on the varsity swim team all through High School. We had to be a rescue swimmer for the Navy.

    https://youtu.be/Uup_ON_F_-w

  • Under Armor released a new ad Tuesday, the latest in its “Rule Yourself” series, this one featuring Michael Phelps. The artful spot makes the point that the 30-year-old swimmer is sparing no element of training as he prepares for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro coming this summer.

    https://youtu.be/Xh9jAD1ofm4

    On Monday, Under Armour released a video that showed the reactions of Phelps and his fiancee, Nicole Johnson, as they were shown the new ad. First, Johnson grew teary-eyed at “knowing what he sacrificed” and seeing it portrayed on the screen, and then Phelps did the same.

    See Washington Post

    https://youtu.be/BQOTxRS7Pfk

  • Mexican Swimming Federation President Kiril Todorov has been indefinitely suspended from his position as a Board member of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) as a row over their participation at Rio 2016 intensifies.

    The national body was “temporarily suspended” by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) earlier this year after they “broke contractual obligations” by withdrawing last February as host of the 2017 FINA World Championships.

    They will be unable to compete under their own flag at Rio 2016 unless the ban is lifted in time.

    The Federation were also hit with a $5 million (£3.5 million/€4.5 million) fine, which they are currently refusing the pay amid an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

    This resulted in Todorov resigning from his position as as vice-president of the FINA Technical Committee last month.

    He has now accused the COM of a lack of solidarity in supporting his plight.

    (Todorov speaking about Waterpolo back in 2014)

  • Freediving trip in Bonaire with my dive buddy Clement.

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  • Michael Phelps has been an Under Armour endorser since 2010, but of course, he’s only truly in the spotlight quadrennially, during the Olympics. Now 30 years old, the world’s greatest-ever swimmer is making one final Olympic push—for the Rio Games this August.

    Under Armour is celebrating its hero’s last stand with a beautiful and brooding ad from Droga5 that focuses on Phelps’s intense training regimen—in other words, everything he’s been doing while outside the spotlight to prepare for those precious moments in the pool.

    See Adweek

    https://youtu.be/Xh9jAD1ofm4