Swimmer's Daily

  • Athletes around the world have their eye on the 2016 Olympics.

    Ugne Mazutaityte is a Lithuanian swimmer attending college in California who hopes to be on the Road to Rio.

    “Everyone goes to United States. If you’re good enough at swimming you go to the United States,” she says.”I like my country. It’s cold now there but we have amazing spring, beautiful spring.

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  • Courtesy of Calvyn Justus on YouTube

    https://youtu.be/_9wThCqMlyk

  • Watch live on YouTube: The FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2016. This competition will take place at the Abu Dhabi International Marine Sport Club, Abu Dhabi (UAE).

    https://youtu.be/K4VVj9Ffbac

  • This is a small promotional video to undestand better the athlete’s perspectives about masters sport. It was made during the World Masters Games 2013 in Torino, Italy.

  • The Loose Women take a look at the latest in men’s swimwear fashion – the Swimmer’s G-String.

  • Australia’s Olympic athletes are facing the sobering reality that the huge sponsorship dollars that filled their predecessors’ pockets are vanishing.

    Glamour swimmers such as Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe comfortably earnt four or five times a year what many of the current swim stars make.

    The gap is not just down to the fact that they were proven Olympic standouts, while today’s crop will be very much on trial at the Rio Olympics.

    While Thorpe and Hackett earnt more than $2 million a year from sponsorships, life for the current generation is much more challenging in a tougher financial climate.

    Read The Courier Mail

  • Jemma Lowe from Swimpath Olympic Training program, see swimpath.co.uk

    The new year of 2016 has arrived and the Olympic Games are coming fast. As soon as midnight arrived on New Years, the Olympics will have crossed swimmers minds all over the world.

    Leading up to the Olympic trials my training group are doing a 7week training camp in Australia. Whilst it’s Winter in the UK, it’s sunny, hot Summer in Australia. Training through Winter in the UK increases the risks of illness and Vitamin D deficiency; this year we especially want to avoid illness as much as we can and maximise our training gains. The sun also helps keep people happy and happy swimmers are fast swimmers!

    I’ve been in Australia at the Gold Coast for almost 2weeks now and waking up early in the morning for training is a lot easier when the sun is up.

    I’ve been in Australia at the Gold Coast for almost 2weeks now and waking up early in the morning for training is a lot easier when the sun is up.

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    The facilities out here in Australia are amazing. There are hundreds of Olympic sized swimming pools and the one we are training in has 12 lanes!

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    Swimming 10 sessions a week as well as 5 gym sessions takes up a lot of time and can be difficult to fit anything else in after quality rest time. However, it’s very important to keep training fun and we still manage to fit fun activities in.

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    On one afternoon off training we decided to play on this inflatable…..

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    ….. which turned out to be more of a work out than an afternoon of resting.

    When training abroad it can sometimes be difficult to get the same nutrition in as you are used to at home. Out here the food is very similar to the UK and some are even better, for example, fish ….

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    I experimented cooking Red Snapper, which is a great protein source for recovery after training. It turned out to be very tastey, but for fish lovers only.

    Images courtesy of Jemma Lowe

  • Former students of a Portland-area swimming instructor arrested on child porn charges say they are shocked by the allegations.

    “Complete shock,” Morgan Gilbert told KOIN 6 News. “He was so nice to me. I know that sounds kind of cliché, but he seemed really nice and he was a good swim coach.”

    James McGlothlin, 39, was arrested Friday evening on the 11800 block of SW Kerr Parkway in Lake Oswego. An affidavit shows the swim instructor had written out numerous graphic plans to abuse and take photos or videos of children. He reportedly planned to “babysit” 3 children, and had plans that included “drugging the 2 older children with Benadryl so he [could] sexually abuse one of the children.”

    See KOIN6

  • At just 16 years old, Michael Andrew has already learned to enjoy his career in swimming. Yes, his career. His latest sponsor is sports giant Adidas.

    “So when I first went pro at 14, I dealt with a lot of pressure,” said Michael. “I put a lot of pressure on myself.”

    See KSHB