Swimmer's Daily

  • Ischenko’s reign goes on, Kvasha and the Germans shine in the diving pool

    Natalia Ishchenko proved that she is still the queen of synchro, pulling out a clean win once more in the solo free. The first non-Russian gold in London went to Ukraine’s Illya Kvasha, who clinched the 1m title in diving, while Germany’s Maria Kurjo and My Phan won the women’s 10m synchro amidst dramatic circumstances.

    (L to R) Giovanni TOCCI ITA silver; Ilya Kvasha UKR gold; Kostantin BLAHA AUT bronze London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships DIVING 1M. SPRINGBOARD MEN FINAL Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    (L to R) Ukraina UKR KRASNOSHLYK – TATSENKO silver ; Germany GER KURJO – PHAN Gold ; HUN Hungary KORMOS – REISINGER bronze London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships DIVING 10M. Synchro Platform Women FINAL Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    ISCHENKO Natalia RUS gold medal, VOLOSHYNA Anna UKR silver medal, CERRUTI Linda ITA bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Synchro Solo free final Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    ISCHENKO Natalia RUS gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Synchro Solo free final Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    KVASHA Ilyia UKR London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Men’s 1m springboard final Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    KVASHA Ilyia UKR London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Men’s 1m springboard final Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team GER KURJO Maria PHAN My gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Women’s 10m synchronised platform final Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    TOCCI Giovanni ITA silver medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Diving Men’s 1m springboard final Day 02 10-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

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  • Fiona Doyle is a swimmer from Limerick, who lives, works and trains on a Sports scholarship at the University of Calgary. Travelling across the globe in pursuit of the Olympic qualifying time isn’t easy, but it is even tougher for Fiona, as she is to live so far from her family.

  • Eighty-one-year-old swimmer Bill Lauer races against professor Dave Bassett’s kinesiology students at the UT student aquatic center Tuesday, May 10, 2016.

  • Four refugees staying in Souda, one of three camps on the island of Chios, attempted to swim to Turkey on Monday after giving up on the near-static asylum process. Get the full story: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/…

    Read for instance ekathimerini.com

  • Olympic medalist Cullen Jones educates parents and children on the importance of learning to swim. CNN’s Coy Wire reports.

  • Some internet users are shocked and stunned after video surfaced of a 6-month-old Florida baby struggling to swim as her mother watches on.

    The two-minute video, uploaded to Facebook by user Dov, shows a bubbly baby girl in a yellow dress being lured out into a pool.

    She plunges in after a bright, flowered sandal and her head goes under, but neither of the adults step in to help her. Instead, they watch as she struggles and ends up floating on her back.

    See New York Daily News

  • 1948 Olympian Penny Taylor reflects on her career as an athlete, coach, team leader and manager for USA Swimming.

  • A member of the Gator Nation could be headed to Rio for the Olympics this summer.

    https://youtu.be/5AuOCYhaKFY